Perpetrators : the world of the Holocaust killers
Lewy, Guenter, 1923-2017
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The Nazis' attempt to annihilate the Jewish people, the Holocaust, continues to raise a disturbing question. About six million defenseless men, women, and children were murdered for no reason but their ancestry. Close to two million Jews were killed in mass shootings, while the remainder were asphyxiated or worked and starved to death. How could such terrible deeds happen in the heart of Christian Europe and among a nation known for its poets and thinkers, a people that had produced Schiller, Goethe, Bach, and Beethoven? Guenter Lewy provides a critical synthesis of recent literature on the perpetrators, broadening the discussion and developing a more complete and systematic answer to the question of why so many ordinary German people became mass murderers, drawing on previously untapped valuable sources.
Main title:
Perpetrators : the world of the Holocaust killers / Guenter Lewy.
Author:
Lewy, Guenter, 1923-, author
Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Collation:
224 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780190661137 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.5318940.5318 LEW
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1130746
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