LEADER 02023cam a2200397 a 4500001 1639 005 20240621154639.0 008 880330t19881988nyubf b 001 0 eng 020 0394571541 : |c$29.95 035 88042621 //r89 035 USHOM 5077 035 1639 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 050 00 D804.3 |b.M39 1988 090 D810.J4 |bM28 1988 100 1 Mayer, Arno J. 245 10 Why did the heavens not darken? : |bthe "final solution" in history / |cArno J. Mayer. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York : |bPantheon Books, |c[1988] 264 4 |c©1988 300 xv, 492 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : |bmaps ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Bibliography: pages 451-475. 500 Includes index. 505 0 The golden age -- The East European rimland -- The syncretism of Mein Kampf -- The founding and consolidation of the Nazi regime : mainsprings of deemancipation -- Expansion and war, 1938-40 : catalysts for forced emigration, ghettoization, and deportation -- Conceiving Operation Barbarossa : conquest and crusade -- The miscarriage of Barbarossa : from pogrom to Babi Yar -- Wannsee : toward the "final solution" -- Waging war to the death : the rape of Europe -- Auschwitz -- The extermination sites : Chelmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka -- In the maelstrom of final defeat : the death marches and the wrack of Hungarian Jewry. 530 Electronic version(s) available online. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xCauses. 650 0 Jews |xGovernment policy |zGermany. 856 41 |3Electronic version(s) available. |zHosted by Internet Archive |u https://archive.org/details/whydidheavensnot00maye 852 0 |bstacks |hD810.J4 |iM28 1988 852 0 |bscstacks |hD810.J4 |iM28 1988 |tc.2 852 0 |ber