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Author:

Hamerow, Theodore S.

Title:

Why we watched : Europe, America, and the Holocaust / Theodore S. Hamerow.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Co,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xxi, 520 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.
Antisemitism--Europe--History--20th century.
Europe--Social conditions--20th century.
Europe--History--History--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion.
Public opinion--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-498) and index.

Contents:

pt. 1. The great depression and anti-Semitism -- pt. 2. The unending American debate -- pt. 3. The destruction of European Jewry.

Summary:

"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 Germany'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."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

039306462X (hardcover)
9780393064629 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)191846962

LCCN:

2008004318

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

VWPC964 -- Calmar Public Library (Calmar)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)