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Introduction: Holocaust, War, and Genocide: Themes and
Problems
Chapter 1 Dry Timber: Preconditions
Chapter 2 Leadership and Will: Hitler, the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party, and Nazi Ideology
Chapter 3 From Revolution to Routine: Nazi Germany, 1933–1938
Chapter 4 Open Aggression: In Search of War, 1938–1939
Chapter 5 Brutal Innovations: War against Poland and the So-Called
Euthanasia Program, 1939–1940
Chapter 6 Expansion and Systematization: Exporting War and Terror,
1940–1941
Chapter 7 War and Genocide: Decisions and Dynamics in the Peak
Years of Killing, 1942–1943
Chapter 8 Flashover: The Killing Centers, 1942–1944
Chapter 9 Death Throes and Killing Frenzies, 1944–1945
Conclusion: Legacies of Atrocity
Acknowledgments
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Index
About the Author
Doris L. Bergen is Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto.
Doris Bergen's War and Genocide is a jewel of a book that addresses
students, specialists, and the general public alike. Her clear
analysis of the development of the genocide is combined with an
extraordinary and broad view of the actions and experiences of
those involved. She not only covers the history of Nazi
perpetrators and their policies but also pays careful attention to
the experience of Jewish victims as well as the varied social
groups targeted for persecution including women, homosexual men,
Roma, the disabled and others. In addition, her nuanced attention
to visual and cultural sources further models how a critical
history of the Holocaust can be written.
*Paul B. Jaskot, Duke University*
The revisions undertaken by Doris Bergen for this new edition of
War and Genocide make an excellent book even better. Instructors
and students will appreciate the expanded coverage of crucial
questions such as collaboration, developments in the Soviet Union,
the fate of Roma under Nazi rule, and post-1945 ramifications of
the Holocaust, all of which have been subjects of much recent
research. Up-to-date and comprehensive, War and Genocide remains
the ideal introduction to an enormously complex and challenging
subject.
*Alan E. Steinweis, University of Vermont*
War and Genocide provides a concise, careful, and engaging
discussion of the Holocaust. Written by a master teacher—a scholar
who understands undergraduate readers—it anticipates questions and
challenges students to think critically through common
misconceptions about the past. War and Genocide is the most
valuable resource that I have for conveying the complexity and
nuance of the Holocaust.
*Tatjana Lichtenstein, The University of Texas at Austin*
Balanced and comprehensive, this third edition of Doris Bergen's
masterly book accomplishes several tasks that few other works on
the Holocaust can claim to have achieved: it is meticulously
researched, entirely up to date, and highly readable. It sets the
Holocaust within a wide framework of origins and wartime events
without losing sight of its particular horror and distinct
features, and it understands the Holocaust as an assault on
humanity that encompassed not only Jews but whole other categories
of human beings, not least the handicapped, the Roma, and Soviet
prisoners of war. War and Genocide is certain to become essential
reading for all students of the last century's darkest era.
*Omer Bartov, Brown University, author of Erased: Vanishing Traces
of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine*
A book that will likely be required reading in college-level
courses for years to come. . . . A detailed overview of the
Holocaust.
*History In Review*
A meticulous, sensitive account of the Nazi race wars that combines
a powerful narrative and explanatory drive at the same time as it
illuminates individual lives and fates with searing precision.
While giving full weight to the antisemitic core of Nazi racism,
Bergen also shows why it claimed so many other groups of victims
and pursues it to its appalling climax in the wars of imperialist
conquest and exploitation launched in 1939. This is a distinctive
and remarkable achievement, as assured as it is readable.
*Jane Caplan, University of Oxford*
This precise textbook accomplishes much: it provides a wide-angle
view of what the Holocaust was and is in clear historiographical
terms, challenges students to think through facts and
interpretations surrounding the historical study of the Holocaust,
and complements—and is short enough to allow the inclusion
of—primary sources in a course. I will use it as long as I can.
*Jeanne Grant, Metropolitan State University*
In eight well-written and concise chapters, the book examines the
relationship between anti-Semitic ideology, an ever radicalizing
Nazi revolution, Nazi aggression, the Euthanasia Program and the
murder of the Jews. Again this is a book that will find its place
on the bookshelves of most Holocaust scholars and should be
included in any Holocaust library.
*Jewish Book World*
In this brief survey, which is clearly written for an undergraduate
audience, Bergen does an excellent job of introducing nearly all of
the major issues surrounding the Holocaust. Copiously illustrated
with photographs and maps, this succinct book is remarkably
comprehensive, making it unusually accessible to nonexperts. Highly
recommended.
*Choice Reviews*
Doris Bergen encapsulates this complex history with intelligence
and insight. She has written a sure and fluid introduction to the
Holocaust.
*Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners:
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust*
Excellent, concise, searching—a fine text for introducing students
to the history of and moral questions surrounding the Holocaust. Of
particular value are the suggestions for further reading and
reflection.
*Stuart Liebman, Queens College, CUNY*
An excellent shorter work on the Third Reich and the Holocaust for
general readers.
*Allan A. Ryan, Harvard University Summer School*
Balances necessary content with analysis. Bergen clearly argues the
intimate connections between war and genocide in a way that's
accessible to undergraduates.
*Robinson Yost, Kirkwood Community College*
Doris Bergen's War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
offers a view of the Holocaust that balances academic rigor, recent
scholarship, and student accessibility. It provides a superb
foundation for students to understand the complexity of the
historical record and historiography of the Holocaust.
*Jeffrey Myers, Avila University*
With exceptional succinctness and clarity, Doris Bergen provides
the reader with a wealth of information, a series of illuminating
individual experiences, and judicious commentary.
*Christopher R. Browning, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill; author of Origins of the Final Solution*
One of the most accomplished teachers of the Holocaust has written
a brilliant incentive for anyone considering the daunting task of
launching or improving a college course on the subject. With expert
conciseness, Bergen presents a thoughtful overview of the issues
and their place in recent literature. She gives us a judicious
analysis rich with compassionate narratives of human experience, at
once a tough account of this unique past and a meditation on its
contemporary relevance. This is a courageous effort to remember—and
to face the consequences. Bergen's book is a corrective to many
existing accounts, confronting the reader not just with the
sickening or sensationalized history, but with the question of why
Hitler was such a big hit in Germany as well as in the popular
media all around us today.
*Nathan Stoltzfus, author of Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage
and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany*
War and Genocide may be a concise history of the Holocaust, but it
covers a lot of contextual ground and in a clear, insightful,
sensitive, and compelling manner. Doris Bergen writes about the
genocide of the Jews, without neglecting the persecution,
enslavement, and murder of millions of other victims of the Nazis
in Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. She has done
educators, students, and scholars a great service.
*Carol Rittner, R.S.M., The Richard Stockton College of New
Jersey*
Does the Holocaust's immensity mean that a concise history of that
event is impossible? Doris Bergen, a meticulous scholar who writes
with unusual clarity and precision, admirably shows that the answer
is no. Wisely situating the Holocaust in the context of World War
II, insightfully organizing her account around Nazi Germany's
lethal quest for racial purity and territorial conquest, her War
and Genocide provides an overview as brilliant and reliable as it
is compact. Anyone who struggles to fathom the Holocaust's deep
darkness will benefit from reading this well-crafted and
much-needed book.
*John K. Roth, author of Holocaust Politics*
War and Genocide provides a splendid, easy-to-read introduction to
a complex, sometimes contentious, and shattering subject. Balanced
and fair-minded, this book is highly recommended both for students
of the subject and for interested general readers.
*Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of
Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto; author of The Holocaust
in History*
Doris Bergen's study is the best concise treatment of the Holocaust
to date. Her book is approachable for both beginning students
learning about the genocide, and for advanced students who are
looking for a high quality synthesis. Bergen tells the story in a
compelling way that weaves the latest research into a fascinating
narrative that makes the Holocaust more understandable for all
readers. Her inquiry views the Holocaust from many different
perspectives and will add to anyone's knowledge of the Shoah.
Bergen has a wonderful knack for including poignant testimony with
relevant analysis to make this horrifying experience more
comprehensible. This book will certainly become the standard text
for Holocaust courses.
*Glenn Sharfman, Hiram College*
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