Why? explaining the Holocaust
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.
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New York ; London :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why Another Book on the Holocaust?
- 1. Targets: Why the Jews?
- Antisemitism
- Emancipation and backlash
- 2. Attackers: Why the Germans?
- Nation and Volk
- Hitler's opportunity
- 3. Escalation: Why Murder?
- From Aryanization to atrocity
- Gentile and Jewish responses
- 4. Annihilation: Why This Swift and Sweeping?
- From bullets to Gas
- Perpetrators: the "generation without limits"
- Enslavement
- 5. Victims: Why Didn't More Jews Fight Back More Often?
- Compliance and resistance
- The world of the camps
- 6. Homelands: Why Did Survival Rates Diverge?
- Varieties of behavior
- The case of Poland
- 7. Onlookers: Why Such Limited Help from Outside?
- Prewar evasions
- Wartime priorities
- 8. Aftermath: What Legacies, What Lessons?
- Return, resettlement, retribution, and restitution
- Memory, myths, and meanings.
