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How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust /

"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 wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMillan, Dan, Ph.D
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes.
Germany > Social conditions > 1918-1933.
Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
HISTORY / Jewish.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
1918 - 1945
Political science.
Social history.
War > Causes.
Germany.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.