National Socialist Extermination Policies by Ulrich Herbert - 9781571817518

National Socialist Extermination PoliciesContemporary German Perspectives and Controversies\nAuthor(s): Ulrich Herbert\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, United States\nImprint: Berghahn Books, Incorporated\nISBN-13: 9781571817518, 978-1571817518\nSynopsis\nMoving beyond the well-established problems and public discussions of the Holocaust, this collection of essays, written by some of the leading German historians of the younger generation, leaves behind the increasingly agitated arguments of the last years and substantially broadens, and in many areas revises, our knowledge of the Holocaust. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on whether the Holocaust could best be understood as the \""fulfilment of a world view or as a process of \""cumulative radicalisation,\"" these articles provide an overview of how situational elements and gradual processes of radicalisation were variously combined with ever-changing objectives and fundamental ideological convic.