Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust attempts to sensitize individuals to the tragic results of a racist world outlook, as well as make clear to them how complicated are the series of steps that take the individual from the expression of racist sentiments and mild expressions of anti-Semitism to outright genocide. The text shows the complex ways in which politics, economics, culture, and social forces interacted with individual motivations to produce the Holocaust. A useful supplementary text for students in European History courses, students in Clinical and Social Psychology courses, and for students in Judaic Studies.

"This book offers an interesting angle within the psychohistorical tradition..." - American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry

"...Solkoff has written an innovative and interesting book. He brings a structured, integrative organization to the explanation of prejudice, coping, grief, courage, the capacity for unimaginable evil, and other phenomena of interest to psychologicallyminded students of the Holocaust." - Holocaust and Genocide Studies

"This is a work based on considerable scholarship by one who has reflected on these issues for many years." - German Studies Review

"This is a work based on considerable scholarship by one who has reflected on these issues for many years." - German Studies Review

"This book offers an interesting angle within the psychohistorical tradition..." - American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry

"...Solkoff has written an innovative and interesting book. He brings a structured, integrative organization to the explanation of prejudice, coping, grief, courage, the capacity for unimaginable evil, and other phenomena of interest to psychologically minded students of the Holocaust." - Holocaust and Genocide Studies