The train journey transit, captivity, and witnessing in the Holocaust
Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis' genocidal vision of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings o...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford, England :
Berghahn Books
2009
2010. |
| Colección: | War and genocide.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433077206719 |
| Sumario: | Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis' genocidal vision of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the "Final Solution," Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: "How can railways be regarded as anything more than physical equipment that was used, when the time came, to transport the Jews from various cities to shooting grounds and gas chambers in Eastern Europe?" This book explores this question by analyzin |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785334771 9781282627864 9786612627866 9781845459277 |
