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008    140418s2014    nyu      b    001 0 eng  
010      2013051212
020    9780465080243 |q(hardback)
020    0465080243 |q(hardback)
020     |z9780465036646 |q(ebook)
035    (OCoLC)ocn842877138
035    237483
049    LHMA
040    DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dIG# |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCO |dYDXCP |dOCLCF |dLHM
050 00 D804.3 |b.M398 2014
100 1  McMillan, Dan, |cPh.D.
245 10 How could this happen : |bexplaining the Holocaust / |cDan McMillan.
264  1 New York : |bBasic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, |c[2014]
300    xi, 276 pages ; |c24 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
520 2  "The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the vast body of Holocaust research into a cogent explanation and comprehensive analysis of the genocide's many causes, revealing how a once-progressive society like Germany could have carried out this crime. The Holocaust, he explains, was caused not by one but by a combination of factors--from Germany's failure to become a democracy until 1918, to the widespread acceptance of anti-Semitism and scientific racism, to the effects of World War I, which intensified political divisions within the country and drastically lowered the value of human life in the minds of an entire generation. Masterfully synthesizing the myriad causes that led Germany to disaster, McMillan shows why thousands of Germans carried out the genocide while millions watched, with cold indifference, as it enveloped their homeland. Persuasive and compelling, How Could This Happen explains how a perfect storm of bleak circumstances, malevolent ideas, and damaged personalities unleashed history's most terrifying atrocity"-- |cProvided by publisher.
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  Posing the question -- A genocide like no other -- Why Germany? -- A world of enemies -- Hardened by war -- Division and disaster -- Why Hitler? -- From dictator to demigod -- Why the Jewish people? -- Hatred as science -- The absent moral compass -- What they knew.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xCauses.
651  0 Germany |xSocial conditions |y1918-1933.
651  0 Germany |xSocial conditions |y1933-1945.
651  0 Germany |xPolitics and government |y1933-1945.
852 0   |bstacks |hD804.3 |i.M398 2014
852 0   |bscstacks |hD804.3 |i.M398 2014 |tc.2