01657cam a2200253 4500 5691695 TxAuBib 20080610120000.0 241002s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u TxAuBib Bergen, Doris L. War and genocide : a concise history of the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen. Lanham : Rowman &Littlefield, 2007. 263 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Preconditions : antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early 20th century Europe -- Leadership and will : Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi ideology -- From revolution to routine : Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 -- Open aggression : in search of war, 1938-1939 -- Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940 : war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program -- Expansion and systemization : exporting war and terror, 1940-1941 -- The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943 -- Death throes : killing frenzies, 1944-1945. 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. 20080610. National socialism. Antisemitism Germany History 20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Causes. World War, 1939-1945 Causes. Germany History 1933-1945. TXMOO