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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974852003321

Autore

Steinberg Jonathan

Titolo

All or nothing : the Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943 / / Jonathan Steinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-7472-7051-1

1-138-15133-5

1-134-43656-4

1-280-05389-5

0-203-35669-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Disciplina

940.5318

940.53180945

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Balkan Peninsula

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France

World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue - Italy

World War, 1939-1945 - Diplomatic history

Italy Foreign relations Germany

Germany Foreign relations Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1990 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The events -- pt. 2. Explanations.

Sommario/riassunto

German and Italian fascist armies in the Second World War treated the Jews quite differently. Jews who fell into the hands of the German army ended up in concentration camps; none of those taken by the Italians suffered the same fate. Yet the protectors of the Jews were no philo-Semites, nor were they (often) great respecters of human life. Some of those same officers had sanctioned savage atrocities against Ethiopians and Arabs in the years before the war. Jonathan Steinberg uses this remarkable and poignant story to unravel the motives and forces underpinning both Fascism and Nazism. As a re