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This work, a two-volume set, is the result of over ten years of research in western Europe. It is not only a historical account of the Holocaust, but also an analysis of how, when, where, and why it took place. As a sub-theme, and perhaps just as important, is the realization that what happened originally to the Armenians at the start of the 20th century and continued with the Jews of Europe, was experimentation in the settling of problems with minorities by means of genocide.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Basic Theses Chapter 3 Chronology Chapter 4 Volume One: Prologue: The Holocaust in the World View Mass Murder; A Religion or a Nation; An Overview of the Sources and History of Anti- Semitism in Christian Europe; Adolf Hitler and His Beginnings; The Ideology; Post-World War One Germany; Hitle Chapter 5 Volume Two: The Jewish Councils; The War and Jewish Hope of Swift Deliverance; Jewish Resistance Among the Partisans and in the Konzentrationslager; The Struggle at the Warsaw Ghetto; International Conferences During World War II, the Russian Chapter 6 Epilogue Chapter 7 Notes Chapter 8 Selected Bibliography Chapter 9 Index Chapter 10 Pertinent Inserts:Emancipation of European Jewry; Major Concentration and Death Camps; Murder of Jews and Non-Jews in Europe; Location of Extermination Centers in Poland; Balfour Declaration and British White Paper; Mit Brennender Sorge of Pop
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By Robert M. Spector
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This work, a two-volume set, is the result of over ten years of research in western Europe. It is not only a historical account of the Holocaust, but also an analysis of how, when, where, and why it took place.
