War and genocide
Subtitle: a concise history of the Holocaust
By: Doris L. Bergen.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Critical issues in world and international history
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780742557154; 9780742557161
Subjects: National socialism; Antisemitism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes; World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes; Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
Description: "In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, second edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: Gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. With clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi program of conquest and genocide - purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space - and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preconditions: antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early twentieth century Europe; title: Leadership and will: Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi Ideology; title: From revolution to routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938; title: Open aggression: in search of war, 1938-1939; title: Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940: war against Poland and  the so-called euthanasia program; title: Expansion and systematization: exporting war and terror, 1940-1941; title: The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943; title: Death throes and killing frenzies, 1944-1945.