Research Catalog

Title

World without civilization : mass murder and the Holocaust, history and analysis / Robert M. Spector.

Author

Spector, Robert M. (Robert Melvin), 1926-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2005.

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Details

Description

2 v. (xxiii, 1002 p.) : map; 23 cm.

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes
• Genocide > Causes
• Minorities > Crimes against
• Genocide
• Jews > Europe > History > 20th century
• Germany > History > 1933-1945

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [959]-979) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Holocaust in the World View -- Mass Murder -- A Religion or a Nation -- An Overview of the Sources and History of Anti-Semitism in Christian Europe -- Adolf Hitler and His Beginnings -- The Genesis of National Socialist Ideology -- Post-World War One Germany -- Hitlers Rise to Power -- The Nazi State -- Terror -- The Second World War Takes Flight -- Emigration to Extermination -- The Konzentrationslager -- Emergence of the Final Solution as Extermination -- The Extermination Centers -- Auschwitz -- Allied Reaction to the Holocaust -- Pope Pius XII -- The Jewish Councils -- The War and Jewish Hopes of Swift Deliverance -- Jewish Resistance Among the Partisans and in the Concentration Camps -- The Struggle at the Warsaw Ghetto -- International Conferences During World War Two, the Russian Front, and D-Day -- Fate of Jews Under German Occupation -- the Vain Attempt to Save the Hungarian Jews -- The Goldhagen Thesis -- The July 20, 1944, Generals Plot and the OKW -- The Holocaust at the High-Level Conferences, German Military Collapse, and the Death-Marches -- Points of Controversy -- The State of Israel.

ISBN

0761829636

LCCN

^^2004109752

OCLC

• 58432400
• SCSB-12305045

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library