War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Critical Issues in World and International History)

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.

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• Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
• Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946: A Source Reader (Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context)
• Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Studies in Jewish History)
• The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (Problems in European Civilization Series)
• From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival (Jewish Lives)
• Sources of the Holocaust (Documents in History)
• Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)
• Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
• The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Memoir