War & genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust
"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, this revised, second edition 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2009
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2009
Electronic books
x, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780742557154, 9780742557161, 9780742457157, 0742557154, 0742557162, 074245715X
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Preface: War and genocide: race and space
Preconditions: antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early-twentieth-century Europe
Leadership and will: Adolf 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
Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940: war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program
Expansion and systematization: exporting war and terror, 1940-1941
The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943
Death throes and killing frenzies, 1944-1945
Conclusions: The legacies of atrocity