04122cam a2200409 i 4500 513108988 TxAuBib 20170224120000.0 170311s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016031588 9780393254365 hardcover 0393254364 hardcover 9780393355468 0393355462 (OCoLC)951070866 DLC eng rda DLC YDXCP BDX BTCTA OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO GKX ZQP INO ON8 OQX ABG BUR YDX MOF IGA TXGON ZLM PLS MLY GZN VP@ PFLCL OSU TYA POR TXWBR NDD FCS BELPL TXKYL GIP TXMBL STF CGP B@L AJB JVQ RB0 IBI TxAuBib rda Hayes, Peter, 1946 September 7- Why : explaining the Holocaust / Peter Hayes. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] xvi, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-390) and index. Why another book on the Holocaust? -- Targets : Why the Jews? Antisemitism ; Emancipation and backlash -- Attackers : Why the Germans? Nation and Volk ; Hitler's opportunity -- Escalation : Why murder? From Aryanization to atrocity ; Gentile and Jewish responses -- Annihilation : Why this swift and sweeping? From bullets to gas ; Perpetrators : the "generation without limits" ; Enslavement -- Victims : Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Compliance and resistance ; The world of the camps -- Homelands : Why did survival rates diverge? Varieties of behavior ; The case of Poland -- Onlookers : Why such limited help from outside? Prewar evasions ; Wartime priorities -- Aftermath : What legacies, what lessons? Return, resettlement, retribution, and restitution ; Memory, myths, and meanings. An exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights. "Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions--yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the Holocaust near the ends of their lives, it becomes that much more important to unravel what happened and to educate a new generation about the horrors inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews and non-Jews alike. Why? dispels many misconceptions and answers some of the most basic--yet vexing--questions that remain: why the Jews and not another ethnic group? Why the Germans? Why such a swift and sweeping extermination? Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Why didn't they receive more help? While responding to the questions he has been most frequently asked by students over the decades, world-renowned Holocaust historian and professor Peter Hayes brings a wealth of scholarly research and experience to bear on conventional, popular views of the history, challenging some of the most prominent recent interpretations. He argues that there is no single theory that "explains" the Holocaust; the convergence of multiple forces at a particular moment in time led to catastrophe." -- Publisher's description. 20170224. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945.) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945.) Causes. Antisemitism Germany History 20th century. Jews Germany History 20th century. Jews Persecutions Europe History 20th century. Germany 1933-1945 History. Germany Ethnic relations.