History of the Holocust, A: From Ideology to Annihilation

by Botwinick, Rita S.

• ISBN13: 9780130112859
• ISBN10: 0130112852
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

For undergraduate courses in The History of the Holocaust, and Hitler and Nazi Germany. This text examines the causes and events of the Holocaust. Different from the lengthy monographs and scholarly volumes that currently exist, it is designedin both coverage and strategyto meet the needs of today's college student.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Dear Student	xvii
Introduction	1	(4)
The Nature of Prejudice and the Historic Roots of Anti-Semitism	5	(24)
Some Dynamics of Prejudice	5	(1)
Personality and Prejudice	6	(1)
Economics and Intolerance	7	(1)
Racism	8	(1)
The Costs	8	(1)
Defensive Techniques of Survival under Slavery	9	(1)
Origins of Anti-Semitism	10	(1)
Christianity and the Jews	11	(1)
Jewish Roots of Christianity	11	(1)
Legacy of the Crucifixion	12	(1)
The New Faith Established	13	(1)
The Early Church	14	(1)
Medieval Christianity and the Jews	15	(1)
Persecutions Continue	16	(1)
Prohibitions and Proscriptions	17	(1)
Early Ghettos	18	(1)
The Reformation	19	(1)
Luther and the Jews	20	(1)
The Era of Enlightenment	21	(1)
The French Revolution	21	(1)
The Age of Reaction	22	(1)
Industrialization	23	(1)
Twentieth Century	23	(2)
The New Anti-Semitism	25	(1)
Anti-Jewish Racism	26	(3)
The World That Was Annihilated	29	(19)
The Victims	30	(1)
Map 2--1	31	(1)
Brief History of Polish Jewry	32	(1)
Autonomy of Jewish Life	33	(1)
The End to Peaceful Coexistence	34	(1)
Shtetl Life	34	(1)
Cultural Achievements	35	(1)
Kabbalah	36	(1)
Rational Orthodoxy and the Gaon of Vilna	37	(2)
The Hasidic Challenge	39	(1)
The Theory and Practice of Haskala	40	(1)
The Impact of Zionism	41	(3)
The Rebirth of Poland	44	(2)
The Interwar Decades	46	(2)
Nazi Rise to Power	48	(20)
The Totalitarian Prerequisite	49	(1)
The Treaty of Versailles	50	(1)
Organization of the Weimar Republic	51	(1)
The Political Spectrum	51	(1)
Danger from the Left	52	(1)
Danger from the Right	53	(1)
The Struggling Center	53	(1)
Economic Problems of the Weimar Republic	54	(1)
The Wild Inflation	54	(1)
Momentary Recovery	55	(1)
The Great Depression	56	(1)
Continuing Political Crisis	57	(1)
The Art of Defeat	57	(1)
The Nazis Enter History	58	(1)
The Nazi Victory	58	(1)
The Party Platform	59	(1)
The SA	60	(1)
The Failed Beer Hall Putsch	61	(2)
The Aryan Superiority Myth	63	(1)
Authors of the Aryan Theory	64	(1)
Legitimizing Hitler	65	(1)
The End of the Republic	66	(2)
Careers Built on Hate: Hitler and His Instruments	68	(24)
Hitler and the Jews	68	(2)
Who Benefited from the Holocaust?	70	(1)
Economic Motivation	70	(1)
Political Motivation	71	(1)
Cultural Motivation	71	(1)
The Case for a Psychological Explanation	72	(1)
A Man of Paradoxes	73	(1)
The Father	73	(1)
The Mother	74	(1)
A Psychosexual View	75	(1)
Possible Diagnoses?	75	(1)
Self-Hatred Turned Outward?	76	(1)
The Executioners	77	(1)
Hermann Goering: Rise to Power	78	(4)
The Career of Joseph Goebbels	82	(5)
Heinrich Himmler	87	(3)
Closing the Chapter	90	(2)
Germany under the Nazis	92	(21)
Third Reich Politics: Destroying the Republic	92	(1)
The Last Election	93	(1)
The Reichstage Fire	94	(1)
Election, Nazi Style	95	(1)
The Enabling Act	96	(1)
Dictatorship	96	(1)
The Leadership Principle	97	(1)
The Blood Purge	97	(1)
The Party and the Civil Service	98	(2)
Third Reich Economics: Financial Manipulations	100	(1)
Farmers	101	(1)
Workers	102	(1)
Business Interests	102	(1)
Third Reich Culture: Education	103	(1)
Changes in the Public Schools	104	(1)
Creating the Perfect Nazi	105	(1)
Schooling the Leaders of the Future	106	(1)
The Christian Churches	107	(1)
Hitler and the Papacy	107	(1)
Protestant Responses	108	(1)
Protestant Protesters	109	(1)
Nazi Justice	110	(1)
The Compensation Game	111	(2)
German Jewish Life to 1939	113	(21)
Emancipation	113	(1)
Can Jews be Germans?	114	(1)
Economic Anti-Semitism	115	(1)
Political Anti-Semitism	116	(1)
Jewish Reaction: The Reform Movement	117	(1)
Is Zionism the Answer?	118	(1)
The CV Reaction	119	(1)
Effect of World War I	119	(1)
German Jews During the Weimar Years	120	(1)
Jewish Reaction Before 1933	121	(1)
Organizing for Survival	122	(1)
Master Plan or Expediency?	123	(1)
Who is a Jew?	124	(1)
The Boycott	125	(1)
The Nuremberg Laws	126	(1)
Juden Raus (Jews Get Out)	127	(1)
Emigration at an Impasse	128	(1)
Kristallnacht Pogrom	129	(1)
Economic Destruction	129	(1)
Mass Arrests	130	(1)
The Aftermath	131	(3)
Hitler's War	134	(25)
Hitler's Foreign Policy	135	(1)
Lebensraum	135	(1)
The International Atmosphere	136	(1)
Early Nazi Diplomacy	137	(1)
The Peaceful Facade	138	(1)
The Nonaggression Pact with Poland	139	(1)
Inertia in France and England	139	(1)
Bloodless Victories	140	(1)
Austrian Fiasco and Victory	141	(1)
The Sudeten Germans	142	(1)
Appeasement at Munich	143	(1)
The Czech Finale	144	(1)
Map 7--1	145	(1)
The Startling Hitler-Stalin Pact	145	(2)
The War at a Glance	147	(1)
Map 7--2	147	(2)
The Defeat of Poland	149	(1)
Himmler's Vision of Poland	150	(1)
The War in the West	151	(2)
Governing the Conquered Nations	153	(1)
Great Britain Alone	153	(1)
The Balkan Connection	154	(1)
Operation Barbarossa	154	(2)
The Turning of the Tide	156	(3)
From Ideology to Isolation	159	(23)
What Did the German People Know?	160	(1)
An Overview	161	(1)
Types and Aims of Concentration Camps	162	(1)
The SS: State Within the State?	163	(1)
Himmler's Domain	164	(2)
The SS: Membership and Training	166	(1)
Who Served in the SS?	166	(2)
The Isolation of German Jews	168	(1)
Purging the Jews from Western Poland	169	(1)
The Deportations	170	(1)
Creation of Ghettos	171	(2)
Life in the Ghettos	173	(1)
General Features	174	(1)
Functions of the Judenraete	175	(2)
The Lodz Ghetto: Case in Point	177	(2)
The Warsaw Ghetto: Another Case in Point	179	(3)
The Genocide	182	(27)
The Wannsee Decision	182	(2)
Mobile Killing Squads: Aims	184	(1)
Organization	185	(1)
Bolts from the Blue	185	(1)
Map 9--1	186	(1)
Methods of Madness	187	(2)
The Killers	189	(1)
Some German Reactions	190	(1)
The Gas Vans	191	(1)
The Death Factories	192	(1)
Map 9--2	193	(1)
Gas Chambers	194	(1)
The Many Forms of Deception	195	(1)
The Sonderkommandos	196	(1)
Auschwitz Organization	197	(1)
Cheaper Than Slaves	198	(1)
Hunger	199	(2)
The Hungarian Tragedy	201	(1)
Surviving in a Concentration Camp	202	(2)
The Doctors	204	(1)
Camps in Central Europe	205	(1)
Theresienstadt and Ravensbruck	206	(2)
The Death Marches	208	(1)
Resistance and Rescue	209	(22)
Sheep or Wolves?	210	(1)
Evasion	211	(1)
The Warsaw Ghetto	212	(1)
The Revolt	213	(1)
Results and Meaning	214	(1)
Camp Revolts: An Overview	215	(2)
With the Partisans	217	(2)
Rescue: Too Little, Too Late	219	(1)
Ordinary People	220	(1)
Questions of Opportunities	221	(1)
What Was Known?	221	(1)
The Problem with Numbers	222	(1)
Delay and Obstruction in the United States	223	(2)
American Jewry	225	(1)
The War Refugee Board	225	(1)
The Danes	226	(1)
Setting the Scene	227	(1)
The Plot	227	(1)
The Escape	228	(1)
Accounting for the Danish Achievement	229	(1)
Some Concluding Thoughts	229	(2)
Epilogue	231	(12)
Postwar Germany	231	(1)
Occupation Zones	232	(1)
Jews and Other Displaced Persons	233	(1)
Jewish Survivors	234	(1)
Special Problems	235	(1)
Seeking a Refuge: United States	236	(1)
Palestine	236	(1)
The Israeli Ingathering	237	(1)
Justice for the Murderers?	237	(2)
The Nuremberg Trial: 1945--1946	239	(1)
Judges, Prosecutors, and Defendants	239	(1)
The Verdicts	240	(1)
Further Trials	240	(1)
Denazification: The Concept	241	(1)
The Western Military Zones	241	(1)
Results	242	(1)
Glossary and Abbreviations	243	(3)
Time Line	246	(3)
Bibliography and Selected Readings	249	(6)
Index	255