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Title: Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?
Condition: New
Subtitle: The "Final Solution" in History
Author: Arno Mayer
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 184467777X
EAN: 9781844677771
ISBN: 9781844677771
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: History
Topic: Military History, Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Date: 21/08/2012
Description: Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doing so, he provides one of the most thorough and convincing explanations of how the genocidecame about in Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?, which provoked widespread interest and controversywhen first published.
Mayer demonstrates that, while the Nazis' anti-Semitism was always virulent, it did not becomegenocidal until well into the Second World War, when the failure of their massive, all-or-nothingcampaign against Russia triggered the Final Solution. He details the steps leading up to thisenormity, showing how the institutional and ideological frameworks that made it possible evolved,and how both related to the debacle in the Eastern theater. In this way, the Judeocide is placedwithin the larger context of European history, showing how similar 'holy causes' in the past havetriggered analogous - if far less cataclysmic - infamies.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 236mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 43mm
Item Weight: 834g
Book Series: Verso World History
Release Year: 2012

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