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"It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental ch...

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Main Author: Snyder, Timothy (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, Tim Duggan Books, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Genocide.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Summary:"It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think." --publisher's description
Physical Description:428 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-387, 391-428) and index.
ISBN:9781101903452 (hardcover)
1101903457 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. Snyder is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement and a former contributing editor at The New Republic. He is a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, serves as the faculty advisor for the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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