The Holocaust [[electronic resource] ] : events, motives and legacy / / Martyn Housden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456633203321
• Autore: Housden Martyn <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tirril [England] ; ; Penrith, Calif., : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-04041-3; 9786612040412; 1-84760-048-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (90 p.)
• Collana: History insights
• Disciplina: 940.5318
• Soggetti: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Use""; ""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""About the author""; ""Chapter 1 Anti-Semitism and Jewish policy up to 1939""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Anti-Semites and what they said""; ""1.3 Hitler and Nazism""; ""1.4 From 1933 to 1939""; ""1.5 Conclusion""; ""Chapter 2 The Pursuit of the Holocaust""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 1939â€?1940: Feeling the way""; ""2.3 1941. A new mood""; ""2.4 Garden of Eden""; ""2.5 The technology of mass murder""; ""2.6 Wannsee and beyond.""; ""2.7 Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3 The motives of the perpetrators""; ""3.1 Introduction""""3.2 Hitlerâ€?s Willing Executioners. Daniel Goldhagen""; ""3.3 Ordinary Men. Christopher Browning""; ""3.4 Bureaucracy and genocide""; ""3.5 Bureaucracy and the modern world ""; ""3.3 Criticisms of bureaucratic theory""; ""3.4 Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4 How bystanders reacted""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Germans as bystanders""; ""4.3 Other states: collaboration""; ""4.3 Other states: resistance""; ""4.4 The Vatican and the Holocaust ""; ""4.5 Allied statesmen ""; ""4.6 Conclusion""; ""Chapter 5 The victimsâ€? view of the world""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Germanyâ€?s Jewish citizens""""5.3 Life in the ghettos""; ""5.4 Leadership and choice""; ""5.5 Making opportunities to escape and resist""; ""5.6 Death camps and attempts to survive them""; ""5.7 Jews ; as partisans""; ""5.8 Conclusion""; ""Conclusion: the legacy of the Holocaust""; ""6.1 The Holocaust as â€?moral resourceâ€?""; ""6.2 Legal legacy. Nuremberg, crimes against humanity and international justice""; ""6.3 Legal legacy. National responses""; ""6.4 Political legacy. Uses and abuses of history""; ""6.5 Conclusion. The root of it allâ€?personal legacies""; ""Selected bibliography""