The Destruction of the European Jews, student edition
Raul Hilberg | | ISBN: 978-0-8419-0910-6 $29.95 |
| 1985/360 pages/LC: 85017541 Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers |
DESCRIPTION
This student edition of The Destruction of the European Jews makes accessible for classroom use Raul Hilberg's landmark account of Germany's annihilation of Europe's Jewish communities in 1933-1945. Perhaps more than any other book, it answers the question: "How did it happen?"
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The late Raul Hilberg was John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont.
CONTENTS
- Precedents.
- Definition by Decree.
- Concentration.
- Mobile Killing Operations.
- Deportations.
- Killing Center Operations.
- The Nature of the Process.
- Rescue.
- Appendixes: German Ranks, Statistical Recapitulation.
"No single book has contributed more ... to an understanding of Nazi genocide.... This is one of the great historical works of our time."—Times Literary Supplement
"[This study] ... is distinguished by its scholarly underpinning and overpowering logic."--Christian Science Monitor
"The standard text in its field ... [by] the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust."—New York Times Book Review