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How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust, Dan McMillan

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"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
Work
Publication
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
Instance
Label
How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust
Title
How could this happen
Title remainder
explaining the Holocaust
Statement of responsibility
Dan McMillan
Creator
Subject
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"--
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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
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How could this happen : explaining the Holocaust, Dan McMillan
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
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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
Publication
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

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