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Why?: explaining the Holocaust

Peter Hayes
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Edition:
First edition
Publication:
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Copyright:
©2017
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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
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