Books Details
Author : Doris L. Bergen Pages : 384 pages Publisher : Rowman
&Littlefield Publishers Language : ISBN-10 : 1442242280 ISBN-13
: 9781442242289
Books Descriptions
In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth
century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its
historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts.
Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised,
third edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews,
but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis:
Roma, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the disabled, and other
groups deemed undesirable. In clear and eloquent prose, Bergen
explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi
German 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 firsthand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and
eyewitnesses, her book is immediate, human, and eminently
readable.
