This major work of Holocaust history examines how anti-Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany developed into systematic destruction between 1933 and 1945, tracing the ideological, political, and administrative steps that turned discrimination, exclusion, and forced confinement into genocide. Lucy S. Dawidowicz follows the escalation from Nazi antisemitic doctrine and state policy to ghettos, deportations, and annihilation camps, making the book especially relevant for readers interested in World War II, Jewish history, Nazi Germany, and the historical processes that made the Holocaust possible. It is a substantial historical study that speaks not only to the events themselves, but also to the disturbing question of how a modern state organized mass murder in full view of the world.
Author: Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication year: 1990
Pages: 576
