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Understanding the Holocaust

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  • Author: Engel, David
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2006
    Summary:

    In this course, Professor David Engel of New York University examines the encounter between Germany's Third Reich and the Jews of the twenty European countries that fell under Nazi domination between 1933 and 1945.

    Contents:
    • What is "The Holocaust" and what can be learned from studying its history?
    • The origins of a murderous idea
    • Why Germany?
    • From idea to action: the twisted road to Auschwitz
    • Facing persecution
    • The ghetto regime
    • Killing begins
    • Organizing death
    • German successes and failures
    • Fighting death: the problem of consciousness
    • Strategies for living and dying
    • Their brothers' keepers?
    • While six million died
    • The Holocaust and the modern condition.
    Genre:
    History and geography
    Subject(s): Germany | History | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jews | Politics and government | War--Causes
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781449869458