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Holocaust : the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews / Peter Longerich.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xiii, 645 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0192804367 (hbk.)
  • 9780192804365 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews
Uniform titles:
  • Politik der Vernichtung. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
Racial persecution, 1933-1939 -- The persecution of the Jews, 1939-1941 -- Mass executions of Jews in the occupied Soviet zones, 1941 -- Genesis of the final solution on a European scale, 1941 -- The extermination of the European Jew, 1942-1945.
Summary: Focusing closely on the perpetrators and exploring the process of decision making, Longerich convincingly shows that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis' political mobilization or an attempt to deflect the attention of the masses. Rather, from 1933 anti-Jewish policy was a central tenet of the Nazi movement's attempts to implement, disseminate, and secure National Socialist rule--and one which crucially shaped Nazi policy decisions. --from publisher description
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis' political mobilization or an attempt to deflect the attention of the masses, but that anti-Jewish policy was a central tenet of the Nazi movement's attempts to implement, disseminate, and secure National Socialist rule - and one which crucially shaped Nazi policy decisions, from their earliest days in power through to the invasion of the Soviet Union and the Final Solution. As Longerich shows, the 'disappearance' of Jews was designed as a first step towards a racially homogeneous society - first within the 'Reich', later in the whole of a German-dominated Europe.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [573]-625) and index.

Racial persecution, 1933-1939 -- The persecution of the Jews, 1939-1941 -- Mass executions of Jews in the occupied Soviet zones, 1941 -- Genesis of the final solution on a European scale, 1941 -- The extermination of the European Jew, 1942-1945.

Focusing closely on the perpetrators and exploring the process of decision making, Longerich convincingly shows that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis' political mobilization or an attempt to deflect the attention of the masses. Rather, from 1933 anti-Jewish policy was a central tenet of the Nazi movement's attempts to implement, disseminate, and secure National Socialist rule--and one which crucially shaped Nazi policy decisions. --from publisher description

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