Foundational pasts the Holocaust as historical understanding /

"This book proposes to understand the Holocaust by looking at Nazi and German culture and sensibilities that made the persecution and extermination imaginable, possible, and conceivable. It critically reviews the keycurrents in Holocaust historiography in the last generation, arguing for a new...

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Main Author: Confino, Alon
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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260 |a Cambridge ;  |a New York :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2012. 
300 |a xi, 180 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Pt. I. Thinking the Holocaust -- Pt. II. Thresholds and limits of history. 
520 |a "This book proposes to understand the Holocaust by looking at Nazi and German culture and sensibilities that made the persecution and extermination imaginable, possible, and conceivable. It critically reviews the keycurrents in Holocaust historiography in the last generation, arguing for a new approach that places at the center not simply what happened during the Nazi years--the anti-Semetic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the way--but especially what the Nazi and other Germans thought was happening; a necessary, deathly war against the key enemy, the Jews"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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650 0 |a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)  |x Causes. 
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