Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Raul Hilberg
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1933-1945
- Setting: Primarily Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Racism, Europe or Europeans, Leadership, Religion, Victims, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Ethics, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Persecution, Genocide
- Locales: Europe
In April, 1991, a major symposium honored one of the University of Vermont’s retiring faculty members. It paid tribute to an exceptional professor of political science. His research, including especially a monumental book called The Destruction of the European Jews (1961), arguably has made Raul Hilberg the world’s preeminent scholar of the Holocaust—Nazi Germany’s planned total destruction of the Jewish people, the actual murder of nearly six million of them, and the annihilation of millions of non-Jewish victims who were also caught in that catastrophe.
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