Bergen, Doris L.

War & genocide a concise history of the Holocaust / [electronic resource] : War and genocide Doris L. Bergen. - 2nd ed. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009. - x, 279 p. : ill., map. - Critical issues in world and international history . - Critical issues in world and international history. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preconditions: antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early twentieth century Europe -- Leadership and will: Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi Ideology -- From revolution to routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 -- Open aggression: in search of war, 1938-1939 -- Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940: war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program -- Expansion and systematization: exporting war and terror, 1940-1941 -- The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943 -- Death throes and killing frenzies, 1944-1945.


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National socialism.
Antisemitism--History--Germany--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.
World War, 1939-1945--Causes.


Germany--History--1933-1945.


Electronic books.

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