War & genocide
Subtitle: a concise history of the Holocaust
By: Doris L. Bergen
Series: Critical issues in history
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780847696307; 9780847696314
Subjects: Weltkrieg <1939-1945>; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust; Judenvernichtung; National socialism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Antisemitism; Causes; History
Other titles: War and genocide
Description: Places the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts, focusing on the two goals that drove the Nazis in their persecution of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and other groups they deemed as undesirables.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preconditions : antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early 20th 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 systemization : exporting war and terror, 1940-1941; title: The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943; title: Death throes : killing frenzies, 1944-1945.