The Holocaust : the human tragedy / / Martin Gilbert

• Autore: Gilbert Martin <1936-2015, >
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified] : , : RosettaBooks, LLC, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (773 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.5318
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 First steps to iniquity; 2 1933: the shadow of the swastika; 3 Towards disinheritance; 4 After the Nuremberg Laws; 5 'Hunted like rats'; 6 'The seeds of a terrible vengeance'; 7 September 1939: the trapping of Polish Jewry; 8 'Blood of innocents'; 9 1940: 'a wave of evil'; 10 War in the West: terror in the East; 11 January-June 1941: the spreading net; 12 'It cannot happen!'; 13 'A crime without a name'; 14 'Write and record!'; 15 The 'final solution'; 16 Eye-witness to mass murder ; 17 20 January 1942: the Wannsee Conference18 'Journey into the unknown'; 19 'Another journey into the unknown'; 20 'If they have enough time, we are lost'; 21 'Avenge our tormented people'; 22 From Warsaw to Treblinka: 'these disastrous and horrible days'; 23 Autumn 1942: 'at a faster pace'; 24 'The most horrible of all horrors'; 25 September-November 1942: the spread of resistance; 26 'To save at least someone'; 27 'Help me get more trains'; 28 Warsaw, April 1943: hopeless days of revolt; 29 'The crashing fires of hell'; 30 'To perish, but with honour' ; 31 'A page of glory... never to be written'32 'Do not think our spirit is broken'; 33 'One should like so much to live a little bit longer'; 34 From the occupation of Hungary to the Normandy landings; 35 'May one cry now?'; 36 July-September 1944: the last deportations; 37 September 1944: the Days of Awe; 38 Revolt at Birkenau; 39 Protectors and persecutors; 40 The death marches; 41 The 'tainted luck' of survival; EPILOGUE: 'I will tell the world'; Notes and sources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Rich with eye-witness accounts, incisive interviews, and first-hand source materials including documentation from the Eichmann and Nuremberg war crime trials, master historian Martin Gilbert weaves a detailed, immediate account of the Holocaust from Hitler's rise to power to the final defeat of the Nazis in 1945. This sweeping narrative begins with an in-depth historical analysis of the origins of anti-Semitism in Europe, and tracks the systematic brutality of Hitler's "Final Solution" in unflinching detail. It brings to light new source materials documenting M
• Titolo autorizzato: The Holocaust
• ISBN: 0-7953-4284-5; 0-7953-3719-1; 0-7953-3721-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808681703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II