The extermination of the European Jews /
This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other victim groups. Christian Gerlach offers a unique social history of mass violence which reveals why particular groups were persecuted and what it was tha...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New approaches to European history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Persecution by Germans. 2. Before 1933
- 3. From enforced emigration to territorial schemes: 1933-41
- 4. From mass murder to comprehensive annihilation: 1941-2
- 5. Extending mass destruction: 1942-5
- 6. Structures and agents of violence
- Part II. Logics of persecution. 7. Racism and anti-Jewish thought
- 8. Forced labor, German violence and Jews
- 9. Hunger policies and mass murder
- 10. The economics of separation, expropriation, crowding and removal
- 11. Fighting resistance and the persecution of Jews
- Part III. The European dimension. 12. Legislation against Jews in Europe: a comparison
- 13. Divided societies: popular input to the persecution of Jews
- 14. Beyond legislation: non-German policies of violence
- 15. In the labyrinths of persecution: survival attempts
- 16. Conclusion: group destruction in extremely violent societies.
