War and genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust /

War and genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bergen, Doris L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Critical issues in world and international history.
Subjects:
National socialism.
Antisemitism > Germany > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes.
World War, 1939-1945 > Causes.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Holocaust, war and genocide : themes and problems
  • Dry timber : preconditions
  • Leadership and will: Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi ideology
  • From revolution to routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938
  • Open aggression: in search of war, 1938-1939
  • Brutal innovations : war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program, 1939-1940
  • Expansion and systematization : exporting war and terror, 1940-1941
  • War and genocide : decisions and dynamics in the peak years of killing, 1942-1943
  • Flashover : the killing centers, 1942-1944
  • Death throes and killing frenzies, 1944-1945
  • Conclusion : legacies of atrocity.