Why?: Explaining the Holocaust - Peter Hayes
Category: History
Narrator: Don Hagen
Tags: History
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 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 seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directionsyet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the Holocaust near the ends of their lives, it becomes that much more important to unravel what happened and to educate a new generation about the horrors inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews and non-Jews alike. Why? dispels many misconceptions and answers some of the most basicyet vexingquestion
