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Book

Why? : explaining the Holocaust

Call Number

  • 940.5318 H4183 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Physical Description

xvi, 412 pages : map ; 25 cm

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.

Contents

  • Why another book on the Holocaust?
  • Targets: why the Jews?
  • Attackers: why the Germans?
  • Escalation: why murder?
  • Annihilation: why this swift and sweeping?
  • Victims: why didn't more Jews fight back more often?
  • Homelands: why did survival rates diverge?
  • Onlookers: why such limited help from outside?
  • Aftermath: what legacies, what lessons?

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