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005    20141230193554.0 
008    131230s2014    nyu      b    001 0 eng   
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020    0465080243|q(hardback:|qalkaline paper) 
035    (OCoLC)842877138 
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100 1  McMillan, Dan,|cPh.D. 
245 10 How could this happen :|bexplaining the Holocaust /|cDan 
       McMillan. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books, a member of the Perseus Books 
       Group,|c2014. 
300    xi, 276 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-262) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tPosing the question --|tA genocide like no other --|tWhy
       Germany? --|tA world of enemies --|tHardened by war --
       |tDivision and disaster --|tWhy Hitler? --|tFrom dictator 
       to demigod --|tWhy the Jewish people? --|tHatred as 
       science --|tThe absent moral compass --|tWhat they knew. 
520 2  "The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a 
       monumental crime that beggars our powers of description 
       and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources 
       of this tragedy, but no account has united the various 
       causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the 
       vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the 
       heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, 
       historian Dan McMillan distills the vast body of Holocaust
       research into a cogent explanation and comprehensive 
       analysis of the genocide's many causes, revealing how a 
       once-progressive society like Germany could have carried 
       out this crime. The Holocaust, he explains, was caused not
       by one but by a combination of factors--from Germany's 
       failure to become a democracy until 1918, to the 
       widespread acceptance of anti-Semitism and scientific 
       racism, to the effects of World War I, which intensified 
       political divisions within the country and drastically 
       lowered the value of human life in the minds of an entire 
       generation. Masterfully synthesizing the myriad causes 
       that led Germany to disaster, McMillan shows why thousands
       of Germans carried out the genocide while millions watched,
       with cold indifference, as it enveloped their homeland. 
       Persuasive and compelling, How Could This Happen explains 
       how a perfect storm of bleak circumstances, malevolent 
       ideas, and damaged personalities unleashed history's most 
       terrifying atrocity"--|cProvided by publisher. 
611 07 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00958866 
648  7 1918 - 1945|2fast 
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)|xCauses. 
650  0 HISTORY / Europe / Germany / bisacsh. 
650  0 HISTORY / Jewish / bisacsh. 
650  0 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / bisacsh. 
650  7 HISTORY / Europe / Germany.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / Jewish.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Political science.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01069781 
650  7 Social history.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01122498 
650  7 War|xCauses.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01170331 
650 07 Judenvernichtung.|0(DE-588)4073091-8|2gnd 
650 07 Ursache.|0(DE-588)4062163-7|2gnd 
651  0 Germany|xSocial conditions|y1918-1933. 
651  0 Germany|xSocial conditions|y1933-1945. 
651  0 Germany|xPolitics and government|y1933-1945. 
651  7 Germany.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210272 
651  7 Germany.|0(DE-588)4011882-4|2gnd 
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