Hitler and the Holocaust / Robert S. Wistrich.
2001
D804.3 .W469 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
Hitler and the Holocaust / Robert S. Wistrich.
Edition
Modern Library ed.
ISBN
0679642226 (alk. paper)
9780679642220 (alk. paper)
9780679642220 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Modern Library, 2001.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 295 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number
D804.3 .W469 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.53/18
Summary
Robert Wistrich begins his history of the Holocaust by exploring the origins of anti-Semitism in Europe, and especially in Germany, to try explain how millions of Jews came to be killed systematically by the Third Reich. In the process of relating these events, he provides new and incisive answers to a number of central questions concerning the Shoah that have emerged over recent years: who, inside and outside Nazi Germany, knew that Jews were being murdered; how responsibility for the genocide should be divided between Hitler himself and ordinary Germans; and how historians have tried to make sense of the Holocaust. The book concludes by considering the legacy of Nazi crimes since 1945: the Nuremburg trials, the impact of the Holocaust on Diaspora Jewry (particularly in Israel and America), and the rise of neo-Nazism and Holocaust-denial.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-285) and index.
Series
Modern Library chronicles ; 8
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Table of Contents
Anti-semitism and the Jews
From Weimar to Hitler
Persecution and resistance
"Final solution"
Between the cross and the swastika
Collaboration across Europe
Britain, America, and the holocaust
Modernity and the Nazi genocide.
From Weimar to Hitler
Persecution and resistance
"Final solution"
Between the cross and the swastika
Collaboration across Europe
Britain, America, and the holocaust
Modernity and the Nazi genocide.