In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: Gypsies, Homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the Handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. With clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi program of conquest and genocide—purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space-and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II. Including first hand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, the book is immediate, human, and eminently readable.

Product Description: In the early hours of June 22, 1941 units of the Wehrmacht began to pour into the Soviet Union. They were embarking on an undertaking long planned by Adolf Hitler. Since the 1920s National Socialist doctrine had largely been determined by an intense hatred and hostility towards not only the Jews but also towards Bolshevism...read more

Product Description: November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in NaziGermany's assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost theirlives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 wereimprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutallymistreated...read more

Product Description: Public interest in Adolf Hitler and all aspects of the Third Reich continues to grow as new generations ponder the moral questions surrounding Nazi Germany and its historical legacy. One aspect of Nazism that has not received sufficient attention from historians of the Third Reich is the doctrine’s origins in the Thule Society and its covert activities...read more

Product Description: Die geistes-, kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, die sich im Dritten Reich' aus antisemitischer Perspektive mit Geschichte und Kultur des Judentums beschäftigten, stellen den markantesten Schnittpunkt von Wissenschaft und antisemitischer Propaganda sowie antij|discher Ideologie und nationalsozialistischer Politik dar...read more

Product Description: Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany examines the relationship between the colonial and antisemitic movements of modern Germany from 1871 to 1918, examining the complicated ways in which German antisemitism and colonialism fed off of and into each other in the decades before the First World War...read more

Product Description: This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany, from the nineteenth century through the Third Reich, focusing on the years between 1933 and 1942. It considers three contentious issues in post-Holocaust historiography and debate: the nature of modern German anti-Semitism; the decision-making process leading to the Nazi mass murder of the Jews of Europe; and the nature and role of German Zionism in German-Jewish history before the Holocaust...read more

Product Description: English summary: Der Durchbruch der Moderne fuhrte zu tiefgreifenden Veranderungen aller Lebensbereiche; Werte, scheinbar feste Lebensentwurfe, Institutionen und soziale Hierarchien wurden fragwurdig. Das damit einhergehende Krisenbewusstsein verdichtete sich in der Rede von der Verkehrten Welt...read more