Böcker av Christian (Universitat Bern Gerlach

Major reinterpretation of the Holocaust which surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other groups. Christian Gerlach reveals the close interrelationship between warfare, occupation, policing, social issues, economics, racist thought and actions by non-Germans in the dynamics of mass violence and persecution.

Tracing the roots of mass violence in the twentieth century, this book demonstrates that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse causes of human destruction. The author explores periods of widespread bloodshed in countries such as Armenia and Bangladesh and anti-guerilla wars worldwide.