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The Origins of the Final Solution
Christopher R. Browning
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Description for The Origins of the Final Solution
paperback. Offers an analysis of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan, this book explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination that gradually foreclosed plans for their expulsion from Europe. Num Pages: 640 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 452.
The Origins of the Final Solution is the most detailed, careful, and comprehensive analysis to date of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder: the Holocaust. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan but rather a discovered possibility, Christopher Browning explains how Hitler's decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination that gradually foreclosed plans for their expulsion from Europe. Only in the interval between late September and late October 1941 did the desire to "remove" the Jews intersect with the discovery of acceptable means of killing them on a large scale and with the euphoria of expected victory in Russia, all of which followed on from two years of 'race war' and 'racial imperialism' in eastern Europe that prepared 'ordinary Germans' for this fateful task.
Product Details
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099454823
SKU
V9780099454823
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About Christopher R. Browning
Christopher Browning is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written a number of modern history books, including Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992); The Path to Genocide (1992); The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office (1978) and Nazi Policy, Jewish Labour, German Killers (2000).
Reviews for The Origins of the Final Solution
Sensitive and nuanced, this is a fine piece of synthesis and analysis
Sunday Times
Superb . . . [Browning] has created an eloquent, painstaking narrative of how the Final Solution evolved
Joshua Rubenstein
Wall Street Journal
This is a book of exceptional quality - The work of a historian at the peak of his powers, a magisterial study, a profound analysis of how the darkest chapter in human history could come about
Ian Kershaw, bestselling author of Hitler This magisterial work... An unrivaled account of how the Nazi leadership ended up with a policy of industrialized mass murder of Jews - Probably no one is better qualified for this task than Christopher Browning.
Mark Mazower, New York Times
Browning is persuasive because he marshals his evidence with unrivalled skill and writes with awesome clarity.
Literary Review
To seek an answer to "why", we have first to grasp "how" and pick our way down the track which leads...from "Expel to Exploit to Exterminate". On that journey, this book is the best guide.
Observer
A winning combination of forensic precision with the historian's skill of telling a story clearly and powerfully... A demonstration of what good history is about
Evening Standard
Sunday Times
Superb . . . [Browning] has created an eloquent, painstaking narrative of how the Final Solution evolved
Joshua Rubenstein
Wall Street Journal
This is a book of exceptional quality - The work of a historian at the peak of his powers, a magisterial study, a profound analysis of how the darkest chapter in human history could come about
Ian Kershaw, bestselling author of Hitler This magisterial work... An unrivaled account of how the Nazi leadership ended up with a policy of industrialized mass murder of Jews - Probably no one is better qualified for this task than Christopher Browning.
Mark Mazower, New York Times
Browning is persuasive because he marshals his evidence with unrivalled skill and writes with awesome clarity.
Literary Review
To seek an answer to "why", we have first to grasp "how" and pick our way down the track which leads...from "Expel to Exploit to Exterminate". On that journey, this book is the best guide.
Observer
A winning combination of forensic precision with the historian's skill of telling a story clearly and powerfully... A demonstration of what good history is about
Evening Standard