Why?: Explaining the Holocaust - Hardcover

Hayes, Peter

 
9780393254365: Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393254364 ISBN 13: 9780393254365
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2017

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Peter Hayes has been teaching Holocaust studies for decades and Why? grows out of the questions hes encountered from his students. Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of why such a ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilised Europe in the 20th Century seems still to elude people. Numerous myths have sprouted, many designed to console us that things could have gone differently if only some person or entity had acted more bravely or wisely, others intended to cast new blame on favourite or surprising villains or even on historians. Why? dispels many such legends - from the notion that antisemitism brought Hitler to power to the belief that a large number of major perpetrators escaped punishment - and debunks the most prevalent ones, including the loud and recurrent claim that the Holocaust never happened. Hayes challenges some of the most prominent recent interpretations and argues that convergence of multiple forces at a particular moment in time resulted in this tragic catastrophe.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Hayes is professor of history and German and Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies Emeritus at Northwestern University, and chair of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393254364
ISBN 13 
9780393254365
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Anzahl der Seiten
432
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