كتاب
How could this happen: explaining the Holocaust
| العنوان: | How could this happen: explaining the Holocaust |
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| المؤلفون: | McMillan, Dan, Ph.D. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| وصف مادي: | xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes., HISTORY / Europe / Germany / bisacsh., HISTORY / Jewish / bisacsh., HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / bisacsh., HISTORY / Europe / Germany., HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century., HISTORY / Jewish., Political science., Social history., War -- Causes., Judenvernichtung., Ursache. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933., Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945., Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945., Germany., Deutschland. |
| Time: | 1918 - 1945 |
| الوصف: | "The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the vast body of Holocaust research into a cogent explanation and comprehensive analysis of the genocide's many causes, revealing how a once-progressive society like Germany could have carried out this crime. The Holocaust, he explains, was caused not by one but by a combination of factors--from Germany's failure to become a democracy until 1918, to the widespread acceptance of anti-Semitism and scientific racism, to the effects of World War I, which intensified political divisions within the country and drastically lowered the value of human life in the minds of an entire generation. Masterfully synthesizing the myriad causes that led Germany to disaster, McMillan shows why thousands of Germans carried out the genocide while millions watched, with cold indifference, as it enveloped their homeland. Persuasive and compelling, How Could This Happen explains how a perfect storm of bleak circumstances, malevolent ideas, and damaged personalities unleashed history's most terrifying atrocity"-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Posing the question -- A genocide like no other -- Why Germany? -- A world of enemies -- Hardened by war -- Division and disaster -- Why Hitler? -- From dictator to demigod -- Why the Jewish people? -- Hatred as science -- The absent moral compass -- What they knew. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn842877138 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-465-08024-3 978-0-465-03664-6 0-465-08024-3 0-465-03664-3 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014020132.7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780465080243 9780465036646 0465080243 0465036643 |
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