The Holocaust : a new history / Laurence Rees.

Collection type	Library
Author	Rees, Laurence, author.;
Call Number	940.5318 R328h
Document type	Monograph
Year	2017. 2017.
Pagination	xv, 509 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Penguin Books, Viking an imprint of Penguin Books,
Note	Includes bibliographical references and index. This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, in his magnum opus, he combines their enthralling eyewitness testimony, a large amount of which has never been published before, with the latest academic research to create the first accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust in more than three decades. This is a new history of th e Holocaust in three ways. First, and most importantly, Rees has created a gripping narrative that that contains a large amount of testimony that has never been published before. Second, he places this powerful interview material in the context of an exam ination of the decision making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. Third, Rees covers all those across Europe who participated in the deaths, and he argues that whilst hatre d of the Jews was always at the epicentre of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill millions of non-Jews, including homosexuals, 'Gypsies' and the disabled. Through a chro nological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history.
Place made	Harmondsworth : [London]

Abstract

Machine generated contents note: 1.Origins of Hate -- 2.Birth of the Nazis (1919--1923) -- 3.From Revolution to Ballot Box (1924--1933) -- 4.Consolidating Power (1933--1934) -- 5.The Nuremberg Laws (1934--1935) -- 6.Education and Empire-Building (1935--19 38) -- 7.Radicalization (1938--1939) -- 8.The Start of Racial War (1939--1940) -- 9.Persecution in the West (1940--1941) -- 10.War of Extermination (1941) -- 11.The Road to Wannsee (1941--1942) -- 12.Search and Kill (1942) -- 13.Nazi Death Camps in Poland (1942) -- 14.Killing, and Persuading Others to Help (1942--1943) -- 15.Oppression and Revolt (1943) -- 16.Auschwitz (1943--1944) -- 17.Hungarian Catastrophe (1944) -- 18.Murder to the End (1944--1945).