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008			131230s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780465080243 (hardback)
020			_a0465080243 (hardback)
020			_z9780465036646 (ebook)
020			_a0465036643
020			_a9780465036646
035			_a(OCoLC)842877138
050	0	0	_aD804.3 _b.M398 2014
082	0	0	_a940.53
092			_a940.53 _bM167h
100	1		_aMcMillan, Dan, _cPh.D.
245	1	0	_aHow could this happen : _bexplaining the Holocaust / _cDan McMillan.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBasic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, _c[2014]
300			_axi, 276 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520	2		_a"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			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPosing 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.
650		0	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _xCauses.
651		0	_aGermany _xSocial conditions _y1918-1933.
651		0	_aGermany _xSocial conditions _y1933-1945.
651		0	_aGermany _xPolitics and government _y1933-1945.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / Germany. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Jewish. _2bisacsh
611	0	7	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00958866
650		7	_aPolitical science. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01069781
650		7	_aSocial history. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01122498
650		7	_aWar _xCauses. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01170331
651		7	_aGermany. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01210272
650		4	_aHISTORY / Europe / Germany / bisacsh.
650		4	_aHISTORY / Jewish / bisacsh.
650		4	_aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / bisacsh.
650	0	7	_aJudenvernichtung. _0(DE-588)4073091-8 _2gnd
650	0	7	_aUrsache. _0(DE-588)4062163-7 _2gnd
651		7	_aDeutschland. _0(DE-588)4011882-4 _2gnd
648		7	_a1918 - 1945 _2fast
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