| Victims and Perpetrators: Dutch Shoah, 1933/45 and Beyond Contributor(s): Derks, Hans (Author) |
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ISBN: 3506792180 ISBN-13: 9783506792181 Publisher: Brill Schoningh OUR PRICE: $62.37 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - History | Holocaust - History | Military - General |
| LCCN: 2018448739 |
| Physical Information: (2.81 lbs) 383 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How was it possible that, in a rather peaceful and, to all intents and purposes, not particularly antisemitic Dutch society, more than 75% of the Jewish population were arrested, deported or murdered in concentration camps during the Shoah? Can all of this be blamed on the Nazi occupiers? The eminent historian, Hans Derks, explains this mystery for the first time by looking closely at the social and religious characteristics of Dutch society. He also unveils the extensive collaboration of the country's state-bureaucracy with the German authorities. This uniquely perpetratororiented book about the Dutch Shoah offers shocking conclusions about the persistent contribution of Dutch scholars to racist ideologies and eugenic measures aimed at creating a new, racially pure Dutch society under an authoritarian leadership. |