| Edition |
1st Vintage books ed. |
| Description |
x, 634 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-613) and index. |
| Note |
Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1996. |
| Contents |
Recasting the view of antisemitism: A framework for analysis -- The evolution of eliminationist antisemitism in modern Germany -- Eliminationist antisemitism: The "common sense" of German society during the Nazi period -- The Nazis' assault on the Jews: Its character and evolution -- The agents and machinery of destruction -- Police battalions: Agents of genocide -- Police Battalion 101: The men's deeds -- Police battalion 101: Assessing the men's motives -- Police battalions: Lives, killings, and motives -- The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period -- Life in the "work" camps -- Work and death -- The deadly way -- Marching to what end? -- Explaining the perpetrators' actions: Assessing the competing explanations -- Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation. |
| Summary |
One-sided documentary history supports the idea that all Germans were guilty of, and responsible for the destruction of Europe's Jews. |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
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Antisemitism -- Germany.
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War criminals -- Germany -- Psychology.
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National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| ISBN |
0679772685 |
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9780679772682 |
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0679446958 |
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9780679446958 |
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