War and genocide

Description

Places the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts, focusing on the two goals that drove the Nazis in their persecution of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and other groups they deemed as undesirables.

Description

"In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, second edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: Gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. With clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi program of conquest and genocide - purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space - and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II."--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Critical issues in world and international history

Other Editions

• War and genocide: a concise history of the HolocaustRowman & Littlefield2009-01-01
• War and GenocideHardcoverRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.2002-11-25
• War & genocideRowman & Littlefield2003-01-01
• War and genocideRowman & Littlefield2003-01-01
• War and GenocidePaperbackRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.2003-02-01
• The HolocaustRowman & Littlefield Publishers2009-01-01