
The final solution : a genocide / Donald Bloxham
"The Holocaust is frequently depicted in isolation by its historians. Some of them believe that to place it in any kind of comparative context risks diminishing its uniqueness and even detracts from the enormity of the Nazi crime. In reality, such a restricted understanding of 'uniqueness&...
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Hauptverfasser: | Bloxham, Donald (VerfasserIn) |
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Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Veröffentlicht: | Oxford ; New York, NY [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 |
Ausgabe: | 1. publ |
Schriftenreihe: | Oxford histories
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Internet: | http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2011-4-001 Autorenbiografie Verlagsangaben Book review (H-Net) Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension Inhaltsbeschreibung |
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Documentary traces |
I. A European history of violence |
1. Europe on the brink |
2. The First World War era |
3. Ethnopolitics, geopolitics, and the return to war |
II. Germany and the final solution |
4. Nazism and Germany |
5. Genocide in Germany's eastern empire |
6. The patterns and limits of the European genocide |
III. Perpetrators and their environment |
7. Why did they kill? |
IV. Civilization and the holocaust |
8. Locating genocide in the human past. |