This book seeks to answer three vital questions about the worldwide
response to Hitler's "Final Solution": When did information about
the genocide first become known to Jews and non-Jews? Through what
channels was this information transmitted? What was the reaction of
those who received word of the slaughter? Walter Laqueur's quest
focuses on the period between June 1941, when Germany invaded the
Soviet Union, and December 1942, by which time the United Nations
had confirmed the news about the mass killings in a common
declaration. By the end of 1942, Chelmno, Belzec, Auschwitz,
Maidanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka were fully operational and two and
a half million Jews had already been killed. According to Laqueur,
word started to spread soon after extermination began. But there is
no easy, straightforward answer to the wider question of why there
was a failure to read and correctly interpret the signs in 1941;
why so many individuals and governments actually chose to deny the
reality of genocide when faced with incontrovertible evidence. A
probing and disturbing work, The Terrible Secret explores one of
the most perplexing aspects of the Holocaust, a political and
psychological riddle of general significance to the understanding
of the history of our times.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 2017 |
| First published: |
1980 |
| Authors: |
Walter Laqueur
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
282 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-53903-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-138-53903-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781138539037 |
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