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Holocaust : A History

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Alanjo Books
(High Wycombe, BUCKS, Regno Unito)

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Descrizione libro Red Cloth. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition. One small indentation on jacket near spine edge, otherise in brand new condition. Appears unread. Illustrated. Concise, dramatic and magisterial. Drawing on oral histories recorded by the authors over fifteen years across Europe and the United States, as well as on dicuments, letters and diaries never before analysed, it changes the way we look at the greatest crime in history. Starting with a brief history of Judaism in Europe, the authors quickly set the stage for the Second World War, tracing the tensions mounting among populations, and the economic, social and political reasons for them. The Europe that permitted the Holocaust was not created in 1933, though thereafter descent quickly became inevitable. Vividly but with meticulous scholarship, Holocaust shows us the early days of Nazism, and the German leaders' plans for resettlement of the Jews in Madagascar or the rural marshes of Poland. It reveals the sometimes personal, sometimes political concerns - often having more to do with old land rivalries than anti-semitism - which dictated different countries' treatment of their Jewish populations. It illustrates how new measures and abuses, each harsher than the last, were devised and implemented - even after it was clear that Germany had lost the war - until liberation was finally reached in 1945. Though this book fully captures the horror, it never allows the personal stories to be subsumed in numbing detail. We meet perpetrators and collaborators, victims, bystanders and witnesses, rescuers and resisters. What emerges is a multi-faceted treatment of moral dilemmas as well as facts, one which negotiates the chasm between two histories, that of the people who carried out these terrible deeds and that of the victims and their families. It helps us to understand how it was possible for between five and six million human beings, in the heart of a civilization that thought itself the zenith of human history, to find themselves singled out, disenfranchised, marked, imprisoned and killed. Codice articolo 006107

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