Holocaust

The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-960073-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 976 g

A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources.

Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis' political mobilization or an attempt to deflect the attention of the masses, but that anti-Jewish policy was a central tenet of the Nazi movement's attempts to implement, disseminate, and secure National Socialist rule - and one which crucially shaped Nazi policy decisions, from their earliest days in power through to the invasion

of the Soviet Union and the Final Solution.

As Longerich shows, the 'disappearance' of Jews was designed as a first step towards a racially homogeneous society - first within the 'Reich', later in the whole of a German-dominated Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Longerich, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: The exclusion of the Jews from public life (1933-4)
2: Segregation and systematic discrimination (1934-7)
3: Systematic disfranchisement and expulsion (autumn 1937 to the outbreak of war)
4: Persecution of the Jews 1939-41
5: The mass murder of Jewish civilians in the Soviet Union (1941)
6: The genesis of the Final Solution
7: The initiation of a policy of extermination on a European scale
8: The policy of extermination after 1942
9: Conclusion: the four incremental stages of the policy of extermination
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of names
Index of places

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Longerich is Professor of Modern German History and Director of the Research Centre for the Holocaust and Twentieth-Century History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on the subject, in English and German, including The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution, and The Systematic Character of the National Socialist Policy for the Extermination of the Jews. The latter formed part of his Expert Opinion
in the notorious David Irving v. Penguin/Lipstadt trial. His latest book is a biography of SS leader Heinrich Himmler, which is also to be published by Oxford University Press.