The Holocaust in HistoryDid Europe's Jews go passively to their deaths? How did Nazi anti-Semitism evolve into mass murder? How important was Hitler's own hatred of the Jews in creating the Final Solution? Why didn't the Allies aggressively try to save Jews before the war's end? Michael R. Marrus, in the first comprehensive assessment of the vast historical literature on the Holocaust, tackles explosive issues and tortured memories, handling them with judiciousness and sensitivity. Drawing on the entire range of historical literature on this subject, he comments upon the questions that have troubled observers over the years. By applying the tools of historical, sociological, and political analysis, he presents a balanced but eye-opening treatment of many highly charged topics on the Holocaust, including the role of collaborationist governments, the Roman Catholic Church, the local populations, Jewish ghetto leadership, and the Jews themselves. Book jacket. |
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... Nazism and a perverted medical outlook , yielding what he calls the " Nazi biomedical vision . ” Draw- ing heavily upon eugenic ideas common in much of the Western world in the 1920s , this was a view of the entire German nation as a ...
... Nazism and a perverted medical outlook , yielding what he calls the " Nazi biomedical vision . ” Draw- ing heavily upon eugenic ideas common in much of the Western world in the 1920s , this was a view of the entire German nation as a ...
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... Nazism but to Germany , ” de- clared the former French resistance fighter Justin Godart in 1949.2 And in a related view the eminent German historian Friedrich Mei- necke described the demoralization of the German people under Nazism ...
... Nazism but to Germany , ” de- clared the former French resistance fighter Justin Godart in 1949.2 And in a related view the eminent German historian Friedrich Mei- necke described the demoralization of the German people under Nazism ...
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... Nazism was primarily concerned with martyrol- ogy — described as " the obligation to preserve and memorialize the tragic events of the war , if only in their bare detail , in their heart- rending repetitiveness . " " From this point ...
... Nazism was primarily concerned with martyrol- ogy — described as " the obligation to preserve and memorialize the tragic events of the war , if only in their bare detail , in their heart- rending repetitiveness . " " From this point ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE HOLOCAUST IN PERSPECTIVE | 8 |
THE FINAL SOLUTION | 31 |
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