Introduction: Holocaust, War, and Genocide: Themes and Problems
Chapter 1 Dry Timber: Preconditions
Chapter 2 Leadership and Will: Hitler, the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party, and Nazi Ideology
Chapter 3 From Revolution to Routine: Nazi Germany, 1933–1938
Chapter 4 Open Aggression: In Search of War, 1938–1939
Chapter 5 Brutal Innovations: War against Poland and the So-Called
Euthanasia Program, 1939–1940
Chapter 6 Expansion and Systematization: Exporting War and Terror,
1940–1941
Chapter 7 War and Genocide: Decisions and Dynamics in the Peak
Years of Killing, 1942–1943
Chapter 8 Flashover: The Killing Centers, 1942–1944
Chapter 9 Death Throes and Killing Frenzies, 1944–1945
Conclusion: Legacies of Atrocity
Acknowledgments
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Index
About the Author
Doris L. Bergen is Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto.
Doris Bergen's War and Genocide is a jewel of a book that addresses
students, specialists, and the general public alike. Her clear
analysis of the development of the genocide is combined with an
extraordinary and broad view of the actions and experiences of
those involved. She not only covers the history of Nazi
perpetrators and their policies but also pays careful attention to
the experience of Jewish victims as well as the varied social
groups targeted for persecution including women, homosexual men,
Roma, the disabled and others. In addition, her nuanced attention
to visual and cultural sources further models how a critical
history of the Holocaust can be written.
*Paul B. Jaskot, DePaul University*
The revisions undertaken by Doris Bergen for this new edition of
War and Genocide make an excellent book even better. Instructors
and students will appreciate the expanded coverage of crucial
questions such as collaboration, developments in the Soviet Union,
the fate of Roma under Nazi rule, and post-1945 ramifications of
the Holocaust, all of which have been subjects of much recent
research. Up-to-date and comprehensive, War and Genocide remains
the ideal introduction to an enormously complex and challenging
subject.
*Alan E. Steinweis, University of Vermont*
War and Genocide provides a concise, careful, and engaging
discussion of the Holocaust. Written by a master teacher—a scholar
who understands undergraduate readers—it anticipates questions and
challenges students to think critically through common
misconceptions about the past. War and Genocide is the most
valuable resource that I have for conveying the complexity and
nuance of the Holocaust.
*Tatjana Lichtenstein, The University of Texas at Austin*
Balanced and comprehensive, this third edition of Doris Bergen's
masterly book accomplishes several tasks that few other works on
the Holocaust can claim to have achieved: it is meticulously
researched, entirely up to date, and highly readable. It sets the
Holocaust within a wide framework of origins and wartime events
without losing sight of its particular horror and distinct
features, and it understands the Holocaust as an assault on
humanity that encompassed not only Jews but whole other categories
of human beings, not least the handicapped, the Roma, and Soviet
prisoners of war. War and Genocide is certain to become essential
reading for all students of the last century's darkest era.
*Omer Bartov, Brown University, author of Erased: Vanishing Traces
of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine*
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