The Holocaust : a new history / Laurence Rees.

This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, in his magnum opus, he combines their enthralling eyewitness testimony, a large am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rees, Laurence, 1957- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Public Affairs, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Sources.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Interviews > History and criticism.
Holocaust survivors > Interviews > History and criticism.
Jews > Europe > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities.
Atrocities.
Holocaust survivors > Interviews.
Jews.
Europe.
HISTORY / Holocaust.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Interviews.
Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Interviews
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Interviews.
Physical Description:xv, 509 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Origins of Hate
  • Birth of the Nazis (1919-1923)
  • From Revolution to Ballot Box (1924-1933)
  • Consolidating Power (1933-1934)
  • The Nuremberg Laws (1934-1935)
  • Education and Empire-Building (1935-1938)
  • Radicalization (1938-1939)
  • The Start of Racial War (1939-1940)
  • Persecution in the West (1940-1941)
  • War of Extermination (1941)
  • The Road to Wannsee (1941-1942)
  • Search and Kill (1942)
  • Nazi Death Camps in Poland (1942)
  • Killing, and Persuading Others to Help (1942-1943)
  • Oppression and Revolt (1943)
  • Auschwitz (1943-1944)
  • Hungarian Catastrophe (1944)
  • Murder to the End (1944-1945).