The Historiography of the Holocaust

by Stone, Dan

• ISBN13: 9781403999276
• ISBN10: 1403999279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-03
• Publisher: SPRINGER VERLAG

Summary

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust Studies, this collection will be of enormous benefit to students and scholars alike.

Author Biography

Dan Stone is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(215)
Dan Stone
1. German or Nazi Antisemitism?	9	(15)
Oded Heilbronner
2. Hitler and the Third Reich	24	(28)
Jeremy Noakes
3. Expropriation and Expulsion	52	(13)
Frank Bajohr
4. Ghettoization	65	(23)
Tim Cole
5. War, Occupation and the Holocaust in Poland	88	(32)
Dieter Pohl
6. Local Collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe	120	(21)
Martin Dean
7. Big Business and the Third Reich: An Appraisal of the Historical Arguments	141	(32)
Christopher Kobrak and Andrea H. Schneider
8. The Decision-Making Process	173	(24)
Christopher R. Browning
9. Historiography and the Perpetrators of the Holocaust	197	(19)
Jürgen Matthäus
10. The Topography of Genocide	216	(37)
Andrew Charlesworth
11. Britain, the United States and the Holocaust: In Search of a Historiography	253	(23)
Tony Kushner
12. The Holocaust and the Soviet Union	276	(20)
John Klier
13. The German Churches and the Holocaust	296	(23)
Robert P. Ericksen and Susannah Heschel
14. Jewish Leadership in Extremis	319	(22)
Dan Michman
15. Jewish Resistance	341	(23)
Robert Rozett
16. Gender and the Family	364	(19)
Lisa Pine
17. Romanies and the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation and Overview	383	(14)
Ian Hancock
18. From Streicher to Sawoniuk: the Holocaust in the Courtroom	397	(23)
Donald Bloxham
19. The Holocaust under Communism	420	(20)
Thomas C. Fox
20. Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in Post-Communist Eastern Europe	440	(29)
Florin Lobont
21. Post-Holocaust Philosophy	469	(18)
Josh Cohen
22. Testimony and Representation	487	(21)
Zoë Waxman
23. Memory, Memorials and Museums	508	(25)
Dan Stone
24. The Holocaust and Genocide	533	(23)
A. Dirk Moses
Index	556