- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This complete history incorporates the 'voices' of the Holocaust, not only the perspectives of the victims, but also the perpetrators and bystanders. Bergen reveals the common misunderstanding that the Holocaust was aimed solely at Jews. In actual fact the Holocaust claimed the lives of 12 million people and incorporated many different social and ethnic groups. The Nazi program of destruction not only focused on Jews, but the disabled, Gypsies, Poles, Soviet POWs, homosexual men, Afro-Germans and Jehovah's Witnesses. The Second World War enabled this carnage by conquering territories and people, turning soldiers and doctors into trained killers, and creating a veneer of legitimacy around vicious acts of 'ethnic cleansing' and genocide. Bergen's pathbreaking study uses cutting-edge and original research to reveal how these attacks were linked in a terrifying web of violence and brings to light the real extent of the most notorious and far reaching campaign of genocide in modern history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface: Race and Space
- 1 Preconditions: Antisemitism, Racism and Common Prejudices in Early Twentieth-Century Europe
- 2 Leadership and Will: Adolf Hitler, the NSDAP and Nazi Ideology
- 3 From Revolution to Routine: Nazi Germany, 1933–1938
- 4 Open Aggression: In Search of War, 1938–1939
- 5 Experiments in Brutality: War Against Poland and the So-called Euthanasia Programme, 1939–1940
- 6 Expansion and Systematisation: Exporting War and Terror, 1940–1941
- 7 The Peak Years of Killing: 1942 and 1943
- 8 Death Throes and Killing Frenzies, 1944–1945
- Epilogue: The Legacies of Atrocity
- Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
- List of Illustrations
- Picture Section