0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide

Buy Now

Justifying Genocide - Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler (Hardcover) Loot Price: R984
Discovery Miles 9 840
Justifying Genocide - Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler (Hardcover): Stefan Ihrig

Justifying Genocide - Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler (Hardcover)

Stefan Ihrig

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 | Repayment Terms: R92 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

The Armenian Genocide and the Nazi Holocaust are often thought to be separated by a large distance in time and space. But Stefan Ihrig shows that they were much more connected than previously thought. Bismarck and then Wilhelm II staked their foreign policy on close relations with a stable Ottoman Empire. To the extent that the Armenians were restless under Ottoman rule, they were a problem for Germany too. From the 1890s onward Germany became accustomed to excusing violence against Armenians, even accepting it as a foreign policy necessity. For many Germans, the Armenians represented an explicitly racial problem and despite the Armenians' Christianity, Germans portrayed them as the "Jews of the Orient." As Stefan Ihrig reveals in this first comprehensive study of the subject, many Germans before World War I sympathized with the Ottomans' longstanding repression of the Armenians and would go on to defend vigorously the Turks' wartime program of extermination. After the war, in what Ihrig terms the "great genocide debate," German nationalists first denied and then justified genocide in sweeping terms. The Nazis too came to see genocide as justifiable: in their version of history, the Armenian Genocide had made possible the astonishing rise of the New Turkey. Ihrig is careful to note that this connection does not imply the Armenian Genocide somehow caused the Holocaust, nor does it make Germans any less culpable. But no history of the twentieth century should ignore the deep, direct, and disturbing connections between these two crimes.

General

Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2016
Authors: Stefan Ihrig
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-50479-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Promotions
LSN: 0-674-50479-8
Barcode: 9780674504790

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Don't Look Left - A Diary Of Genocide
Atef Abu Saif Paperback R280 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590
Die Herero-Opstand 1904-1907
Gerhardus Pool Paperback R313 Discovery Miles 3 130
The Killing of Death - Denying the…
Roland Moerland Paperback R2,868 Discovery Miles 28 680
We Are Not Numbers - The Voices Of…
Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey Hardcover R380 R315 Discovery Miles 3 150
The Shortest History of Israel and…
Michael Scott-Baumann Paperback R395 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600
People Love Dead Jews - Reports from a…
Dara Horn Paperback R440 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060
Betrayed Armenia
Diana Agabeg Apcar Hardcover R790 Discovery Miles 7 900
Five Categories of Collective…
Dubravka Polic Hardcover R1,492 Discovery Miles 14 920
Complying with Genocide - The Wolf You…
E.N. Anderson, Barbara A. Anderson Hardcover R3,395 R2,393 Discovery Miles 23 930
Fragile Peace
Borko B Djordjevic Hardcover R1,009 Discovery Miles 10 090
Black Wall Street 100 - An American City…
Hannibal B Johnson Hardcover R884 Discovery Miles 8 840
Devenishki Book; Memorial Book
David Shtokfish Hardcover R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160

See more

Partners