Perpetrators: the world of the Holocaust killers

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. How could such terrible deeds happen in the heart of Christian Europe and among a n...

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Main Author: Lewy, Guenter 1923- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2017]
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Online Access:DE-473
Summary: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. 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? That is the question Guenter Lewy seeks to answer in this book, by drawing on previously untapped material, including officers' diaries, letters written by soldiers, and the record of the trials of hundreds of Nazi perpetrators in German courts
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 195 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9780190661144

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