The Holocaust
Subtitle: a new history
By: Doris Bergen
Publisher: History
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780752449289
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust survivors; Holocaust victims; World War, 1939-1945; Atrocities
Other titles: War and genocide.
Description: Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, but this is only half the story. Doris Bergen reveals how the Holocaust extended beyond the Jews to engulf millions of other victims in related programmes of mass-murder.
Notes: Originally published as: War & genocide: a concise history of the Holocaust. 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: War and Genocide: Race and Space -- -- 1.; title: Preconditions: Antisemitism, Racism, and Common Prejudices in Early-Twentieth-Century Europe -- -- 2.; title: Leadership and Will: Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi Ideology -- -- 3.; title: From Revolution to Routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 -- -- 4.; title: Open Aggression: In Search of War, 1938-1939 -- -- 5.; title: Experiments in Brutality, 1939-1940: War against Poland and the So-Called Euthanasia Program -- -- 6.; title: Expansion and Systematization: Exporting War and Terror, 1940-1941 -- -- 7.; title: The Peak Years of Killing: 1942 and 1943 -- -- 8.; title: Death Throes and Killing Frenzies, 1944-1945 --; title: Epilogue: The Legacies of Atrocity.