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Ideology of Death. Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany

Door John Weiss

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#254695
Titel	Ideology of Death. Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany
Auteur	Weiss, John
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Chicago, Ivan R. Dee
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	1566630886
ISBN13	9781566630887
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	In many nations throughout history, the Jews have been reviled and persecuted, regarded as cunning heretics and destructive social parasites. But only in Germany did racist stereotypes evolve into a popular ideology of such lethal force that it ended in the horror of the death camps. Despite a vast literature about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, we do not yet understand why the destruction of the Jews was conceived and implemented by the Germans. Ideology of Death supplies this understanding in a stunning and disturbing narrative history. Exploring the unique nature of the German experience as well as the annals of anti-Semitism, Mr. Weiss rejects the notion that the Holocaust was a product of Nazi fanaticism. He shows instead how racist ideas ingrained in German culture led to the unt... (Lees verder)hinkable. Tracing the culture of racism and anti-Semitism among powerful elites and ordinary Germans, Mr. Weiss shows how it grew rapidly during the Napoleonic era, became a forceful popular ideology in the 1870s, and in the 1890s gained the dedicated support of the generation that eventually brought Hitler to power. German Jews became the victims of a uniquely powerful culture of racism, he writes. Without this historical base, anti-Semitism would not have exploded with such fury after 1918, producing hundreds of thousands of followers whose ideas were no different from those of the Nazis. Drawing on the latest research, Mr. Weiss describes how the Nazis, building on traditional German anti-Semitism, adjusted their appeal to a wide variety of social groups that were crucial to their electoral success. The Nazis' extraordinary popularity could not have occurred if Hitler's hatreds were unique, the author points out. Nor could the actions against the Jews, leading to their destruction. Most Germans saw nothing wrong with such actions. Mr. Weiss explains the specific complicities of various German groups and institutions in the Holocaust, and why they voluntarily cooperated
Pagina's	427
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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