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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:

• 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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Author/Creator:

Hayes, Peter, 1946 September 7- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Why?: explaining the Holocaust [by Hayes, P.]

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Causes

Antisemitism — Germany — History — 20th century

Jews — Germany — History — 20th century

Jews — Persecutions — Europe — History — 20th century

Germany — History — 1933-1945

Germany — Ethnic relations

Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)

1900-1999

Antisemitism

Jews

Jews — Persecutions

Ethnic relations

War — Causes

Germany

Europe

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-390) and index.
Donation by Dr. Rebecca Glover and Jo Monahan, funded by the UNT’s Office for Faculty Success mentoring grant, in support of the Echoes and Reflections: Leaders in Holocaust Education Teachers’ professional development workshop.

Physical Description:

xvi, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

D804.3 .H387 2017

ISBNs:

9780393254365 (hardcover)
0393254364 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016031588

OCLC Numbers:

951070866