Why? : explaining the Holocaust /: explaining the Holocaust. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Hayes.
• Authors: Hayes, Peter, 1946 September 7
• Contents: Why another book on the Holocaust? -- Targets : Why the Jews? Antimsemitism ; Emancipation and backlash -- Attackers : Why the Germans? Nation and Volk ; Hitler's opportunity -- Escalation : Why murder? From Aryanization to atrocity ; Gentile and Jewish responses -- Annihilation : Why this swift and sweeping? From bullets to gas ; Perpetrators : the "generation without limits" ; Enslavement -- Victims : Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Compliance and resistance ; The world of the camps -- Homelands : Why did survival rates diverge? Varieties of behavior ; The case of Poland -- Onlookers : Why such limited help from outside? Prewar evasions ; Wartime priorities -- Aftermath : What legacies, what lessons? Return, resettlement, retribution, and restitution ; Memory, myths, and meanings.
• Publisher Details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 412 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 940.53/1811; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes; Antisemitism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Antisemitism; Ethnic relations; Jews; Jews -- Persecutions; War -- Causes; Germany -- History -- 1933-1945; Germany -- Ethnic relations; Europe; Germany; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780393254372; 0393254372
• Related ISBNs: 9780393254365; 0393254364
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-390) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.