TY - BOOK AU - Bergen,Doris L TI - War & genocide : a concise history of the holocaust SN - 9780847696314 AV - DD256.5 .B3916 2002 U1 - 943.086 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Lanham PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - National socialism KW - Antisemitism KW - Germany KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Causes KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - 1933-1945 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index; Preconditions : antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early 20th century Europe -- Leadership and will : Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi ideology -- From revolution to routine : Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 -- Open aggression : in search of war, 1938-1939 -- Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940 : war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program -- Expansion and systemization : exporting war and terror, 1940-1941 -- The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943 -- Death throes : killing frenzies, 1944-1945 ER -