**Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal**Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift...

¿Por qué otro libro sobre el Holocausto? ¿Qué puede este añadir a los cerca de dieciséis mil que se han dedicado a este tema? El profesor Peter Hayes, una autoridad mundialmente reconocida por sus estudios sobre la Alemania nazi y sobre el Holocausto, nos responde que es hora de no contentarnos con seguir acumulando información, sino de buscar explicaciones y, sobre todo, de ponerlas al alcance de un público que no puede seguir los avances de la investigación y que está, por ello, indefens...

Welche Rolle haben deutsche Großunternehmen in der NS-Zeit gespielt, wie stark waren sie an der Judenverfolgung beteiligt? Peter Hayes, ausgewiesener Holocaust-Experte, stellt 120 Firmen im Zeitraum von 1927 bis 1945 auf den Prüfstand und zeichnet dabei das erschütternde Bild einer korrupten antisemitischen Verfolgungspolitik unter den führenden Figuren des deutschen Wirtschaftslebens. Dass die deutsche Geschäftswelt an den Verbrechen des NS-Regimes beteiligt war, ist längst bekannt, nicht...

What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on evidence concerning the roughly one hundred most significan...

Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah BotsteinA bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even ...

Warum geschah der Holocaust, die Ermordung von Millionen jüdischer Menschen während des Nationalsozialismus? Peter Hayes ist der erste Historiker, der die Frage nach dem Warum ins Zentrum eines Buches stellt. Hayes spannt den Bogen von den Ursprüngen des Antisemitismus bis hin zur Bestrafung von NS-Verbrechern nach 1945. So gelingt ihm ein kluger und präziser Überblick über die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden. Ein eindrucksvolles Buch, an dem künftig nicht vorbeizukommen sein wird. "Das...

In this unique volume, an international cast of leading scholars from several disciplines offers a comprehensive assessment of the current status of space-based weaponry. Regional and technical experts offer their analysis of the major powers' special interests in space and also examine the broader issues of ICBM proliferation, testing, monitoring, and verification as well as possible opportunities for cooperation between states with a stake in space power.

A rich and accessible introduction to the role of the German railway system in the Holocaust, a topic that remains understudied even today.Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and death camps in Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component of the “machinery of destruction” but also emblematic of the amoral bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide.Germ...

A rich and accessible introduction to the role of the German railway system in the Holocaust, a topic that remains understudied even today.Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and death camps in Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component of the “machinery of destruction” but also emblematic of the amoral bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide.Germ...

Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change in the region. Detailed case studies in China, North and South Korea, and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil society and 'civic diplomacy' in reaching shared solutions to these problems in East Asia and beyond. Each chapter describes regional civil society initiatives that tackle complex challenges to E...

This work provides an analysis of North Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives, including: nuclear reactor technology and technology transfer; economic sanctions and incentives; confidence-building measures; environmental challenges; and the views of Korea and the major powers.

The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts of the family through the efforts to place children with difficult family backgrounds, including mixed and minority ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on empirical source material gathered since the late 1...