Bibliograph

Why?, explaining the Holocaust, Peter Hayes

Type

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Why?, explaining the Holocaust, Peter Hayes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-390) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

951070866

Responsibility statement

Peter Hayes

Sub title

explaining the Holocaust

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

Table Of 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

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