ABSTRACT

The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews is a readable text for undergraduate students containing sufficient but manageable detail. The author provides a broad set of perspectives, while emphasizing the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from an international Jewish question. This text conveys a sense of the Holocaust's many moving parts. It is arranged chronologically and geographically to reflect how persecution, experience, and choices varied over different periods and places. Instructors may also take a thematic approach, as the chapters have distinct sections on such topics as German decisions, Jewish responses, bystander reactions, and other themes.

chapter 1|22 pages

The Jewish Question to Modern Times

chapter 3|19 pages

Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the Jews

chapter 4|21 pages

THE TIDE OF PERSECUTION, 1933–1939

chapter 8|20 pages

Other Enemies: Steps Toward Mass Murder

chapter 16|26 pages

Legacies: 1945 to the Present