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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Auteurs principaux:Bloxham, Donald (Auteur)
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Langue:English
Publié:Oxford ; New York, NY [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009
Édition:1. publ
Collection:Oxford histories
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Accès en ligne:http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2011-4-001
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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.