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Loading... A History of the Holocaust: From Ideology to Annihilation (1996)by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I did not think this book was well written. It jumps around the timeline confusingly without following a clear chronology, it talks down to the reader, it expresses moral judgments that are unsupported and not argued for in the text (however valid they may be in the world at large) and, in my opinion, the analysis is entirely too United States-centric. How is a reader to take comparisons between Nazi Germany and "our country" (which the author appears to intend to refer to the United States in the late twentieth century) if the reader is not American? When my students write like this, I count points off their papers. I am not an expert on the Holocaust, but I'm sure there are better written accounts of it that are just as accurate. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Told with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, this text provides important background information on Jewish life in Europe, the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice. Unlike other texts on the subject, A History of the Holocaust gives students an idea of just who the victims of the Holocaust were. In fact, the author tells this story from a unique point-of-view, having experienced Nazi Germany as a child. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.5318History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; Holocaust HolocaustLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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