| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-390) and index. |
| Contents |
Why another book on the Holocaust? -- Targets : Why the Jews? Antimsemitism ; Emancipation and backlash -- Attackers : Why the Germans? Nation and Volk ; Hitler's opportunity -- Escalation : Why murder? From Aryanization to atrocity ; Gentile and Jewish responses -- Annihilation : Why this swift and sweeping? From bullets to gas ; Perpetrators : the "generation without limits" ; Enslavement -- Victims : Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Compliance and resistance ; The world of the camps -- Homelands : Why did survival rates diverge? Varieties of behavior ; The case of Poland -- Onlookers : Why such limited help from outside? Prewar evasions ; Wartime priorities -- Aftermath : What legacies, what lessons? Return, resettlement, retribution, and restitution ; Memory, myths, and meanings. |
| Summary |
An exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights. |
| Audience |
General adult. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Print version: Hayes, Peter, 1946 September 7- Why? First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] 9780393254365 |
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Original 9780393254372 |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
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Antisemitism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Jews -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
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Germany -- Ethnic relations.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780393254372
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| STANDARD # |
D6918F54-3E98-4F4B-8DCC-E053BE4AC980 OverDrive |
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