How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust / Dan McMillan.
2014
D804.3 .M398 2014eb
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Title
How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust / Dan McMillan.
ISBN
9780465036646 (electronic book)
9780465080243
9780465080243
Published
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
Call Number
D804.3 .M398 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.53/1811
Summary
"The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the vast body of Holocaust research into a cogent explanation and comprehensive analysis of the genocide's many causes, revealing how a once-progressive society like Germany could have carried out this crime. The Holocaust, he explains, was caused not by one but by a combination of factors--from Germany's failure to become a democracy until 1918, to the widespread acceptance of anti-Semitism and scientific racism, to the effects of World War I, which intensified political divisions within the country and drastically lowered the value of human life in the minds of an entire generation. Masterfully synthesizing the myriad causes that led Germany to disaster, McMillan shows why thousands of Germans carried out the genocide while millions watched, with cold indifference, as it enveloped their homeland. Persuasive and compelling, How Could This Happen explains how a perfect storm of bleak circumstances, malevolent ideas, and damaged personalities unleashed history's most terrifying atrocity."--Book jacket.
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Table of Contents
Posing the question
A genocide like no other
Why Germany?
A world of enemies
Hardened by war
Division and disaster
Why Hitler?
From dictator to demigod
Why the Jewish people?
Hatred as science
The absent moral compass
What they knew.
A genocide like no other
Why Germany?
A world of enemies
Hardened by war
Division and disaster
Why Hitler?
From dictator to demigod
Why the Jewish people?
Hatred as science
The absent moral compass
What they knew.