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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Understanding the Holocaust. London ; New York : Cassell, 1999 (OCoLC)607271937 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dan Cohn-Sherbok |
ISBN: | 0304704423 9780304704422 0304704431 9780304704439 |
OCLC Number: | 40668174 |
Description: | xxviii, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1. The history of anti-Semitism -- 2. German hatred of the Jews -- 3. Hitler -- 4. The Nazi party -- 5. Nazi racism -- 6. Hitler's executioners -- 7. The SS -- 8. German anti-Jewish legislation -- 9. The Nuremberg Laws -- 10. Kristallnacht -- 11. The onslaught against Poland -- 12. Massacre in Poland -- 13. The ghetto -- 14. The war against Russia -- 15. The Wannsee Conference and aftermath -- 16. Transportation and arrival at the camps -- 17. The concentration camps -- 18. The gas chambers -- 19. SS doctors and medical experiments -- 20. The euthanasia programme -- 21. Gypsies, the asocial and homosexuals -- 22. Jewish resistance and the final stages of terror -- 23. Reactions to the Holocaust -- 24. The Nuremberg Trials -- 25. Denying the Holocaust -- 26. The Holocaust and religious belief. |
Series Title: | Issues in contemporary religion. |
Responsibility: | Dan Cohn-Sherbok. |
Abstract:
What is the Holocaust? Were Hitler's executioners psychopaths? This volume seeks to explore these and other questions within a historical context. Beginning with the origin and growth of anti-Semitism, this survey continues with an account of the stages of the Nazi onslaught.
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