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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465574603321

Autore

Bloxham Donald

Titolo

The final solution [[electronic resource] ] : a genocide / / Donald Bloxham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-955034-4

1-282-35471-X

9786612354717

0-19-157123-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 p.)

Collana

Oxford histories

Disciplina

940.53/1811

Soggetti

Genocide - Germany - History - 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes

Jews - Government policy - Germany - History - 20th century

Genocide - Political aspects

Genocide - Sociological aspects

Electronic books.

Germany Ethnic relations History 20th century

Europe Ethnic relations History 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Glossary and Abbreviations; A; C; E; G; H; I; K; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Introduction; Documentary Traces; I. A European History of Violence; 1. Europe on the Brink; 2. The First World War Era; 3. Ethnopolitics, Geopolitics, and the Return to War; II. Germany and the Final Solution; 4. Nazism and Germany; 5. Genocide in Germany's Eastern Empire; 6. The Patterns and Limits of the European Genocide; III. Perpetrators and their Environment; 7. Why Did They Kill?; IV. Civilization and the Holocaust; 8. Locating Genocide in the Human Past; Endnotes

Select BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The Holocaust is frequently depicted in isolation by its historians. Some



of them believe that to place it in any kind of comparative context risks diminishing its uniqueness and even detracts from the enormity of the Nazi crime. In reality, such a restricted understanding of 'uniqueness' has pulled the Holocaust apart from history and set up barriers to a better understanding of the racial onslaught unleashed within the Third Reich and its conquered territories.Working against the grain of much earlier writing, this innovative new history combines a detailed re-appraisal of the development of