Why?: Explaining the Holocaust

Synopsis

An Exploration Of The Most Commonly Asked Questions About The Holocaust Challenges Misconceptions And Discusses How No Single Theory Fully Explains The Tragedy, Drawing On A Wealth Of Scholarly Research And Experience To Offer New Insights. Why Another Book On The Holocaust? -- Targets : Why The Jews? Antimsemitism ; Emancipation And Backlash -- Attackers : Why The Germans? Nation And Volk ; Hitler's Opportunity -- Escalation : Why Murder? From Aryanization To Atrocity ; Gentile And Jewish Responses -- Annihilation : Why This Swift And Sweeping? From Bullets To Gas ; Perpetrators : The Generation Without Limits ; Enslavement -- Victims : Why Didn't More Jews Fight Back More Often? Compliance And Resistance ; The World Of The Camps -- Homelands : Why Did Survival Rates Diverge? Varieties Of Behavior ; The Case Of Poland -- Onlookers : Why Such Limited Help From Outside? Prewar Evasions ; Wartime Priorities -- Aftermath : What Legacies, What Lessons? Return, Resettlement, Retribution, And Restitution ; Memory, Myths, And Meanings. Peter Hayes. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [347]-390) And Index.