War & Genocide: A Concise History of the HolocaustRowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 263 Seiten 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, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust 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. Including first hand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, the book is immediate, human, and eminently readable. |
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Preconditions Antisemitism Racism and Common Prejudices in EarlyTerntiethCentury Europe | 1 |
Leadership and Will Adolf Hitler the National Socialist German Workers Party and Nazi Ideology | 29 |
From Revolution to Routine Nazi Germany 19331938 | 53 |
Open Aggression In Search of War 19381939 | 81 |
Experiments in Brutality 19391940 War against Poland and the SoCalled Euthanasia Program | 101 |
Expansion and Systematization Exporting War and Terror 19401941 | 131 |
The Peak Years of Killing 19421943 | 161 |
Death Throes and Killing Frenzies 19441945 | 205 |
The Legacies of Atrocity | 221 |
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Photo Credits | 243 |
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About the Author | |
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