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Chargement... How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaustpar Dan McMillan
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  katsmiao | Oct 23, 2015 |   The book is incredibly well researched and written. The topic can lead to either very dry or difficult to read texts, but this one flows with simple beauty and truth. Each chapter takes the reader through a different topic to explain the Holocaust, ranging from a historical overview of German politics, Hitler's history, social background of the time, economic climate, the pulse of other European countries and anti-Semitism in various forms. I am grateful to the author for writing this book. It stands alone, no other book I've read can touch it. (  ) katsmiao | Oct 23, 2015 | The book is incredibly well researched and written. The topic can lead to either very dry or difficult to read texts, but this one flows with simple beauty and truth. Each chapter takes the reader through a different topic to explain the Holocaust, ranging from a historical overview of German politics, Hitler's history, social background of the time, economic climate, the pulse of other European countries and anti-Semitism in various forms. I am grateful to the author for writing this book. It stands alone, no other book I've read can touch it. ( ) katsmiao | Oct 23, 2015 | But even if you read history this one would be a tough one to work through. How Could This Happen is a book about the Holocaust, taking a serious and scholarly look at German history and culture back to World War I and before and trying to answer the question: Why did the Germans make eliminating the Jews of Europe their top priority? Why did they expend valuable resources during a war to the death with the world to imprison, rob from, and kill the Jews? I don't agree that this question has never been asked before, but I do believe that this book defines the question and shapes the answers better than any book I have read before. Easy to forget that Germany as a nation state was a relatively new idea in 1939 and that anti-Semitism was one of the binding energies that brought the state together. Several corrupt and/or incompetent German governments found blaming the Jews easier than solving problems that may, in fact, have been insoluble. Dr. McMillan is a German scholar and a legal scholar and brings both perspectives to this remarkable study. The chapter on Hitler as demi-god is worth the price of admission - and Hitler is the sine qua non of the Holocaust and the war. (Of course Elie Wiesel and others maintain the question is unanswerable and that even trying to answer it does disservice and dishonor to the dead. I strongly do not agree with that.) Recommended. (  ) magicians_nephew | Jan 13, 2015 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"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"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book is incredibly well researched and written. The topic can lead to either very dry or difficult to read texts, but this one flows with simple beauty and truth.
Each chapter takes the reader through a different topic to explain the Holocaust, ranging from a historical overview of German politics, Hitler's history, social background of the time, economic climate, the pulse of other European countries and anti-Semitism in various forms.
I am grateful to the author for writing this book. It stands alone, no other book I've read can touch it.
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