Lessons and Legacies IX

by Petropoulos, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780810126398
• ISBN10: 0810126397
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-28
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

Memory, History, and Responsibility contains the highlights from the ninth Lessons and Legacies Conference, held at the height of the genocide in Darfur. The contributors reexamine how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to shadow human existence more than sixty years after World War II left the Third Reich in ruins.

Author Biography

Jonathan Fetropoulos is John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College.
He is Henry Snyder Professor of Sociology at Pomona College.
He is Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Center for Human Rights Leadership) at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught from 1966 through 2006.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Prologue	p. 3
Memory
Only in the Dark: Seeing Through the Gloom	p. 19
Suicides of German Jews During the Holocaust	p. 30
Deportation Transit and Captive Bodies: Rethinking Holocaust Witnessing	p. 47
The Atomization of Auschwitz: Is History Really That Contingent?	p. 63
History
Typology of Ghettos: Five Types of Ghettos Under German Administration	p. 85
Defining the Ghettos: Jewish and German Perspectives in the Lublin District	p. 106
Jewish Ghettos in the Generalbezirk Kiew, 1941-1943	p. 124
Jewish Refugees from the Surrounding Communities in the Warsaw and Lódz Ghettos	p. 139
Contesting and Compromising Ghettoization, Hungary 1944	p. 152
Responsibility
Prince zu Waldeck und Pyrmont: A Career in the SS and Its Murderous Consequences	p. 169
When Perpetrators Compensate Victims: Karl Hettlage and the Politics of Indemnification in West Germany	p. 185
The Vatican and the Nazi Movement, 1922-1939: New Sources and Unexpected Findings on the Vatican's Response to Reichskristallnacht	p. 203
Suspending Judgment for the Sake of Knowledge Agamben's Approach to Auschwitz	p. 215
Post-Holocaust Issues
Did Poles Oppose or Collaborate with the Nazis? Problems with Narrating the Holocaust in Poland	p. 233
Just Like the Jews: Contending Victimization in the Former Yugoslavia	p. 251
Equivocal Talismans: The UN Genocide Convention and the Responsibility to Protect	p. 269
Epilogue
Ethics During and After the Holocaust	p. 291
Encountering Ethical Dilemmas in Writing the History of the Holocaust	p. 294
Ethics and Corporate History in Nazi Germany	p. 300
Taking Jean Améry's "Grudge" Seriously	p. 304
Torture and the Ethical Implications of the Holocaust	p. 311
Two Ethical Issues	p. 316
Postscript	p. 321
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. 325
Notes on Contributors	p. 329
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