The Final Solution: A Genocide

The Final Solution: A Genocide
ISBN-10
0199550336
ISBN-13
9780199550333
Series
The Final Solution
Category
History
Pages
410
Language
English
Published
2009-09-10
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Donald Bloxham

Description

The Holocaust - the murder of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany - has too often been depicted in isolation by its historians. The Final Solution: a Genocide is the first study to combine a detailed re-appraisal of the development of the genocide of the Jews with full consideration of Nazi policies against other population groups, and a comparative analysis of other modern genocides. Moving beyond a narrow focus on Nazi Germany, Donald Bloxham provides a broadperspective on a whole continent in crisis from the late nineteenth century onwards and considers the Holocaust as the culmination of a much wider history of European genocide and ethnic cleansing. Ultimately, he shows that an explanation for the Holocaust rooted exclusively in Nazism and antisemitism isnecessarily inadequate when set against one prepared to give due weight to the immediate circumstances of the Second World War in eastern Europe, and to situate the Jewish genocide within the broader patterns of human behaviour in the late-modern world.

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