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Told with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, this text provides important background information on Jewish life in Europe, the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice.
Unlike other texts on the subject, A History of the Holocaust gives students an idea of just who the victims of the Holocaust were. In fact, the author tells this story from a unique point-of-view, having experienced Nazi Germany as a child.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book readers will be able to:
Describe the sequence of events that led to the Holocaust
Understand the people that were victims of the Holocaust and the ways they responded to the events as they unfolded
Draw their own conclusions about controversial topics related to the Holocaust
In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Full Table of Contents
1) Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Nature and Roots of Antisemitism
Chapter 2: The World That Was Annihilated
Chapter 3: The Nazis’ Rise to Power
Chapter 4: Hitler and Three who Served Him
Chapter 5: Germany under the Nazis
Chapter 6: History of German Jews to 1939
Chapter 7: Hitler’s War
Chapter 8: From Ideology to Isolation
Chapter 9: Annihilation: Theory and Practice
Chapter 10: The Industry of Death
Chapter 11: Resistance Against All Odds
Chapter 12: Rescue: Little, Late, but
Chapter 13: After the Deluge
2) Full Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Nature and Roots of Antisemitism
Some Dynamics of Prejudice
Personality and Prejudice
The Costs
Origins of Antisemitism
Christianity and the Jews
The New Faith Established
The Medieval Church and the Jews
Early Ghettos
The Reformation
The 18th Century
The French Revolution and Reaction
The Impact of Industrialization
Twentieth Century
The New Antisemitism
Anti-Jewish Racism
Chapter 2: The World That Was Annihilated
The Victims
Polish Jewry
Shtetl Life
Cultural Achievements
The Rebirth of Poland
Chapter 3: The Nazis’ Rise to Power
The Totalitarian Prerequisite
The Treaty of Versailles
The Weimar Republic
The Nazis Enter History
The Party Platform
The SA
The Failed Beer Hall Putsch
The Aryan Superiority Myth
Legitimizing Hitler
The End of the Republic
Chapter 4: Hitler and Three who Served Him
Hitler’s Ideological Antecedents
The Irrationality of the Holocaust
Pseudo-Intellectual Roots
Psychological Hypotheses
Hitler: A Man of Paradoxes
Three Executioners of the Fuehrer’s Will
Hermann Goering
Joseph Goebbels
Heinrich Himmler
Chapter 5: Germany under the Nazis
Destruction of the Republic
The Last
The Reichstag Fire
Political Centralization
The Party and the Government
Governing the Reich
Party Organization
The Blood Purge
Workers
Economic Policy
Farmers
Business
Public Education
Training the Nazi of the Future
The Catholic Church
Hitler and the Protestant Churches
Nazi Justice
Chapter 6: History of German Jews to 1939
Emancipation
Can Jews Be Accepted as Germans?
Economic Antisemitism
Political Antisemitism
Jewish Reaction: The Reform Movement
Is Zionism the Answer?
The CV Reaction
World War I
The Weimar Years
Jewish Responses to the Nazi Danger
Who Is a Jew?
Early Legal Restrictions
The Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
VOICES: Papa’s Slippers and Crystal Night
The Aftermath
Chapter 7: Hitler’s War
Lebensraum
The European Climate
Nazi Diplomacy
Inertia in France and Great Britain
Bloodless Victories
Austria—Fiasco and Victory
The Sudeten Germans
Appeasement at Munich
The Czech Finale
The Startling Hitler–Stalin Pact
The War at a Glance
The Defeat of Poland
Himmler’s Vision of Poland
The War in the West
Governing the Conquered Nations
Great Britain Alone
VOICES: Excerpts from Windmills, War, and Water
The Balkans and Operation Barbarossa
The Turning
Chapter 8: From Ideology to Isolation
An Overview
Tracking Jews
Despoiling the Victims
Types of Concentration Camps
Himmler’s Empire
Ghettos
Functions of the Judenraete
The Lodz Ghetto: A Case in Point
The Warsaw Ghetto: Another Case in Point
Chapter 9: Annihilation: Theory and Practice
Mobile Killing Squads
The Wannsee Decision
Some German Reactions
The Gas Van Experiment
Chapter 10: The Industry of Death
Gas Chambers
The Many Forms of Deception
Sonderkommandos
Auschwitz’s Organization
Cheaper Than Slaves
Hunger
VOICES: Jolie’s Soup
The Hungarian Tragedy
Surviving a Concentration Camp
The Doctors
Camps in Central Europe
Theresienstadt and Ravensbrueck
The Death Marches
Chapter 11: Resistance Against All Odds
VOICES: My Mother and the Rosenstrasse Protest
The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt
Results and Significance
Camp Revolts: An Overview
With the Partisans
Chapter 12: Rescue: Little, Late, but
VOICES: My Parents—My Heroes
The Final Solution Revealed
Delay and Obstruction in the United States
American Jewry
Survival in Bulgaria
The Danes Mobilize for Rescue
Accounting for the Danish Achievement
The Vatican and the Holocaust
The Protestant Churches
Ordinary People
Hidden Children
Chapter 13: After the Deluge
Postwar Germany
Survivors in Limbo
Seeking a Refuge: The United States
Seeking a Refuge: Palestine
Justice for the Murderers?
The Nuremberg Trials: 1945–1946
Further Trials
DeNazifying the Military
Germany and the Jews Today
Stolen Art: An Unfinished Legacy
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.7.2013 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-205-89627-8 / 0205896278 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-205-89627-1 / 9780205896271 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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