{"product_id":"9780465036646","title":"How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust","description":"The Holocaust is the defining event of the twentieth century – and perhaps all of modern history. Yet for too long, we have ignored the vital question of how and why such a monstrous event could have happened at all. Now, in \u003ci\u003eHow Could This Happen\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Dan McMillan distills the existing Holocaust research into a cogent explanation of the genocide's causes, revealing how a once progressive society like Germany could commit murder on such a massive scale. Countless barriers stand between stable societies and genocide, McMillan explains, but in Germany these buffers began to topple well before World War II. From Hitler's meteoric rise to deep-rooted European anti-Semitism to the dehumanizing effects of World War I, McMillan uncovers the many factors that made the Holocaust possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersuasive and compelling, \u003ci\u003eHow Could This Happen\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how a perfect storm of bleak circumstances, malevolent ideas, and societal upheaval unleashed history's most terrifying atrocity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121881465072,"sku":"9780465036646","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780465036646_p0.jpg?v=1763706206","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780465036646","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}