War & genocide a concise history of the Holocaust / [electronic resource] :
War and genocide
Doris L. Bergen
- 2nd ed.
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009
- 1 online resource (x, 279 p.) : ill., maps
- Critical issues in history. World and international history .
- Critical issues in world and international history .
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index
Preconditions: antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early-twentieth-century Europe -- Leadership and will: Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi ideology -- From revolution to routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 -- Open aggression: in search of war, 1938-1939 -- Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940: war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program -- Expansion and systematization: exporting war and terror, 1940-1941 -- The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943 -- Death throes and killing frenzies, 1944-1945