War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, second edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: Gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. With clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores...
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In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, the revised, second edition of War and Genocide discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. In clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi German program of conquest and genocide_purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space_and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II. Including first hand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, the book is immediate, human, and eminently readable.
Preface: War and Genocide: Race and Space1 Preconditions: Antisemitism, Racism, and Common Prejudices in Early-Twentieth-Century Europe 12 Leadership and Will: Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi Ideology 293 From Revolution to Routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 514 Open Aggression: In Search of War, 1938-1939 795 Experiments in Brutality, 1939-1940: War against Poland and the So-Called Euthanasia Program 1016 Expansion and Systematization: Exporting War and Terror, 1940-1941 1357 The Peak Years of Killing: 1942 and 1943 1678 Death Throes and Killing Frenzies, 1944-1945 215Conclusion: The Legacies of Atrocity 233Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading 245Photo Credits 259Index 263
\ History In ReviewA book that will likely be required reading in college-level courses for years to come. . . . A detailed overview of the Holocaust.\ \ \ \ \ Jane CaplanA meticulous, sensitive account of the Nazi race wars that combines a powerful narrative and explanatory drive at the same time as it illuminates individual lives and fates with searing precision. While giving full weight to the antisemitic core of Nazi racism, Bergen also shows why it claimed so many other groups of victims, and pursues it to its appalling climax in the wars of imperialist conquest and exploitation launched in 1939. This is a distinctive and remarkable achievement, as assured as it is readable.\ \ \ Jeanne GrantThis precise textbook accomplishes much: it provides a wide-angle view of what the Holocaust was and is in clear historiographical terms, challenges students to think through facts and interpretations surrounding the historical study of the Holocaust, and complements—and is short enough to allow the inclusion of—primary sources in a course. I will use it as long as I can.\ \ \ \ \ ChoiceIn this brief survey, which is clearly written for an undergraduate audience, Bergen does an excellent job of introducing nearly all of the major issues surrounding the Holocaust. Copiously illustrated with photographs and maps, this succinct book is remarkably comprehensive, making it unusually accessible to nonexperts. Highly recommended.\ \ \ \ \ CHOICEIn this brief survey, which is clearly written for an undergraduate audience, Bergen does an excellent job of introducing nearly all of the major issues surrounding the Holocaust. Copiously illustrated with photographs and maps, this succinct book is remarkably comprehensive, making it unusually accessible to nonexperts. Highly recommended.\ \ \ \ \ Jewish Book WorldIn eight well-written and concise chapters, the book examines the relationship between anti-Semitic ideology, an ever radicalizing Nazi revolution, Nazi aggression, the Euthanasia Program and the murder of the Jews. Again this is a book that will find its place on the bookshelves of most Holocaust scholars and should be included in any Holocaust library.\ \ \ \ \ Robinson YostBalances necessary content with analysis. Bergen clearly argues the intimate connections between war and genocide in a way that's accessible to undergraduates.\ \
