Why? : explaining the Holocaust

Hayes, Peter, 1946- (author.).

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780393254365
ISBN: 0393254364
ISBN: 9780393355468
Physical Description: print
xvi, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-390) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Why Another Book on the Holocaust? -- 1. Targets: Why the Jews? -- Antisemitism -- Emancipation and backlash -- 2. Attackers: Why the Germans? -- Nation and Volk -- Hitler's opportunity -- 3. Escalation: Why Murder? -- From Aryanization to atrocity -- Gentile and Jewish responses -- 4. Annihilation: Why This Swift and Sweeping? -- From bullets to Gas -- Perpetrators: the "generation without limits" -- Enslavement -- 5. Victims: Why Didn't More Jews Fight Back More Often? -- Compliance and resistance -- The world of the camps -- 6. Homelands: Why Did Survival Rates Diverge? -- Varieties of behavior -- The case of Poland -- 7. Onlookers: Why Such Limited Help from Outside? -- Prewar evasions -- Wartime priorities -- 8. Aftermath: What Legacies, What Lessons? -- Return, resettlement, retribution, and restitution -- Memory, myths, and meanings.

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