Why we watched : Europe, America, and the Holocaust

The Resource Why we watched : Europe, America, and the Holocaust
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Why we watched : Europe, America, and the Holocaust
Title remainder
Europe, America, and the Holocaust
Statement of responsibility
Theodore S. Hamerow
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
" This book answers the most pressing question about the Holocaust: Why did the West do nothing as Hitlerrsquo;s killing machine took hold? ldquo;The most thoroughgoing argument that it was the anti-Semitism of the West that narrowed options, constricted possibilities. This is sure to cause debate.rdquo;-Helmut Smith, Vanderbilt University, author of The Butcherrsquo;s Tale The Allies stood by and watched Nazi Germany imprison and then murder six million Jews during World War II. How could the unthinkable have been allowed to happen? Theodore Hamerow reveals in the pages of this compelling book that each Western nation had its own version of the Jewish Question-its own type of anti-Semitism-which may not have been as virulent as in Eastern Europe but was disastrously crippling nonetheless. If just one country had opened its doors to Germanyrsquo;s already persecuted Jews in the 1930s, and if the Allies had attempted even one bombing of an extermination camp, the Holocaust would have been markedly different. Instead, by sitting on their hands, the West let Hitler solve their Jewish Question by eliminating European Jewry. "--web
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
940.53/18
Index
index present
LC call number
D804.3
LC item number
.H355 2008
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Target audience
adult

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