The Resource How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust, Dan McMillan
How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust, Dan McMillan
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- Summary
- "The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the vast body of Holocaust research into a cogent explanation and comprehensive analysis of the genocide's many causes, revealing how a once-progressive society like Germany could have carried out this crime. The Holocaust, he explains, was caused not by one but by a combination of factors--from Germany's failure to become a democracy until 1918, to the widespread acceptance of anti-Semitism and scientific racism, to the effects of World War I, which intensified political divisions within the country and drastically lowered the value of human life in the minds of an entire generation. Masterfully synthesizing the myriad causes that led Germany to disaster, McMillan shows why thousands of Germans carried out the genocide while millions watched, with cold indifference, as it enveloped their homeland. Persuasive and compelling, How Could This Happen explains how a perfect storm of bleak circumstances, malevolent ideas, and damaged personalities unleashed history's most terrifying atrocity"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 276 pages
- Contents
-
- Posing the question
- A genocide like no other
- Why Germany?
- A world of enemies
- Hardened by war
- Division and disaster
- Why Hitler?
- From dictator to demigod
- Why the Jewish people?
- Hatred as science
- The absent moral compass
- What they knew
- Isbn
- 9780465080243
- Label
- How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust
- Title
- How could this happen
- Title remainder
- explaining the Holocaust
- Statement of responsibility
- Dan McMillan
- Subject
-
- Germany
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
- HISTORY / Europe / Germany
- HISTORY / Jewish
- 1918 - 1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes
- Political science
- Social history
- War -- Causes
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the vast body of Holocaust research into a cogent explanation and comprehensive analysis of the genocide's many causes, revealing how a once-progressive society like Germany could have carried out this crime. The Holocaust, he explains, was caused not by one but by a combination of factors--from Germany's failure to become a democracy until 1918, to the widespread acceptance of anti-Semitism and scientific racism, to the effects of World War I, which intensified political divisions within the country and drastically lowered the value of human life in the minds of an entire generation. Masterfully synthesizing the myriad causes that led Germany to disaster, McMillan shows why thousands of Germans carried out the genocide while millions watched, with cold indifference, as it enveloped their homeland. Persuasive and compelling, How Could This Happen explains how a perfect storm of bleak circumstances, malevolent ideas, and damaged personalities unleashed history's most terrifying atrocity"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McMillan, Dan
- Dewey number
- 940.53/1811
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D804.3
- LC item number
- .M398 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Germany
- Germany
- Germany
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- HISTORY / Europe / Germany
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- HISTORY / Jewish
- Political science
- Social history
- War
- Germany
- Label
- How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust, Dan McMillan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Posing the question -- A genocide like no other -- Why Germany? -- A world of enemies -- Hardened by war -- Division and disaster -- Why Hitler? -- From dictator to demigod -- Why the Jewish people? -- Hatred as science -- The absent moral compass -- What they knew
- Control code
- 842877138
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465080243
- Lccn
- 2013051212
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)842877138
- Label
- How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust, Dan McMillan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Posing the question -- A genocide like no other -- Why Germany? -- A world of enemies -- Hardened by war -- Division and disaster -- Why Hitler? -- From dictator to demigod -- Why the Jewish people? -- Hatred as science -- The absent moral compass -- What they knew
- Control code
- 842877138
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465080243
- Lccn
- 2013051212
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)842877138
Subject
- Germany
- Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933
- Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
- HISTORY / Europe / Germany
- HISTORY / Jewish
- 1918 - 1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes
- Political science
- Social history
- War -- Causes
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
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