The Holocaust and History

by Berenbaum, Michael; Peck, Abraham J.; U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• ISBN13: 9780253333742
• ISBN10: 0253333741
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

This monumental volume of extraordinary scope, depth, and power presents the results of nearly 50 years of Holocaust scholarship by the world's most eminent researchers. Fifty-four chapters probe such topics as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, deportation, and the death camps; Jewish leadership and resistance; the deeds of the rescuers; and the impact of the Holocaust on survivors. This comprehensive presentation is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the state of Holocaust studies today.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Part I Probing the Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go	1	(34)
1. Sources and Their Uses	5	(7)
RAUL HILBERG
2. A Past That Will Not Go Away	12	(11)
YEHUDA BAUER
3. The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go	23	(7)
EBERHARD JACKEL
4. The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go--A Comment	30	(5)
MICHAEL R. MARRUS
Part 2 Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology	35	(64)
5. The Use of Antisemitism in Nazi Wartime Propaganda	41	(15)
DAVID BANKIER
6. The Holocaust: A Very Particular Racism	56	(8)
STEVEN T. KATZ
7. Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology	64	(11)
WALTER ZWI BACHARACH
8. Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Reinterpretations of National Socialism	75	(24)
OMER BARTOV
Part 3 The Politics of Racial Health and Science	99	(54)
9. Human Genetics and the Mass Murder of Jews, Gypsies, and Others	103	(12)
BENNO MULLER-HILL
10. From Colonial Racism to Nazi Population Policy: The Role of the So-called Mischlinge	115	(19)
ANNEGRET EHMANN
11. The Cooperation of German Racial Hygienists and American Eugenicists before and after 1933	134	(19)
STEFAN KUHL
Part 4 The Nazi State: Leadership and Bureaucracy	153	(84)
12. Executive Instinct: Reinhard Heydrich and the Planning for the Final Solution	159	(28)
CHARLES W. SYDNOR, JR.
13. Plans for the Final Solution in Early 1941	187	(10)
RICHARD BREITMAN
14. State Policy and Corporate Involvement in the Holocaust	197	(22)
PETER HAYES
15. The Civil Service and the Implementation of the Holocaust: From Passive to Active Complicity	219	(9)
HANS MOMMSEN
16. The Other Crimes of Adolf Hitler	228	(9)
FRANKLIN H. LITTELL
Part 5 "Ordinary Men": The Sociopolitical Background	237	(72)
17. The T4 Killers: Berlin, Lublin, San Sabba	243	(9)
HENRY FRIEDLANDER
18. Ordinary Germans or Ordinary Men? A Reply to the Critics	252	(14)
CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING
19. Complicity or Entanglement? Wehrmacht, War, and Holocaust	266	(18)
JURGEN FORSTER
20. The Amsterdam Police and the Persecution of the Jews	284	(17)
GUUS MEERSHOEK
21. Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans?	301	(8)
DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN
Part 6 Multiple Voices: Ideology, Exclusion, and Coercion	309	(58)
22. Neglected Holocaust Victims: The Mischlinge, the Judischversippte, and the Gypsies	315	(12)
JOHN A.S. GRENVILLE
23. "Slapping Up Spastics"	327	(11)
HUGH GREGORY GALLAGHER
24. Final Solution of the Homosexual Question? The Antihomosexual Policies of the Nazis and the Social Consequences for Homosexual Men	338	(7)
GUNTER GRAU
25. The Pink Triangle: Homosexuals as "Enemies of the State"	345	(13)
RUDIGER LAUTMANN
26. The Black Experience during the Holocaust	358	(9)
ROBERT KESTING
Part 7 Concentration Camps: Their Task and Environment	367	(54)
27. Auschwitz Concentration Camp: How It Was Used in the Nazi System of Terror and Genocide and in the Economy of the Third Reich	371	(16)
FRANCISZEK PIPER
28. Antechamber to Birkenau: The Zigeunerlager after 1933	387	(14)
SYBIL MILTON
29. Concentration Camps and the Non-Jewish Environment	401	(8)
EDITH RAIM
30. Places Far Away, Places Very Near: Mauthausen, the Camps of the Shoah, and the Bystanders	409	(12)
GORDON J. HORWITZ
Part 8 The Axis, the Allies, and the Neutrals	421	(164)
31. The Holocaust in Hungary: A Retrospective Analysis	427	(12)
RANDOLPH L. BRAHAM
32. The Holocaust in Italy: Areas of Inquiry	439	(24)
MEIR MICHAELIS
33. Antonescu and the Jews	463	(17)
JEAN ANCEL
34. The Allies and the Holocaust	480	(12)
GERHARD L. WEINBERG
35. Surviving the Holocaust: The Situation in France	492	(18)
SUSAN S. ZUCCOTTI
36. British Responses to the Plight of Jews in Europe, 1933-1945	510	(8)
LOUISE LONDON
37. Bureaucracy, Resistance, and the Holocaust: Understanding the Success of Swedish Diplomacy in Budapest, 1944-1945	518	(18)
PAUL A. LEVINE
38. A Lucky Few: Refugees in Turkey	536	(15)
MARK A. EPSTEIN
39. The Catholic Response to the Holocaust: Institutional Perspectives	551	(15)
JOHN T. PAWLIKOWSKI, O.S.M.
40. The Ecclesiastical Final Solution: The German Christian Movement and the Anti-Jewish Church	566	(19)
DORIS L. BERGEN
Part 9 Jewish Leadership, Jewish Resistance	585	(62)
41. The Armed Jewish Resistance in Eastern Europe: Its Unique Conditions and Its Relations with the Jewish Councils (Judenrate) in the Ghettos	591	(10)
YITZHAK ARAD
42. Remembering and Invoking 1789 during the Holocaust: The Trials and Tribulations of French Jews	601	(15)
RICHARD I. COHEN
43. The Jewish Underground Press in France and the Struggle to Expose the Nazi Secret of the Final Solution	616	(13)
ADAM RAYSKI
44. Czech and Slovak Wartime Jewish Leadership: Variants in Strategy and Tactics	629	(18)
LIVIA ROTHKIRCHEN
Part 10 The Rescuers	647	(44)
45. Reflections on Rescuers	651	(12)
NECHAMA TEC
46. The Rescuer Self	663	(15)
EVA FOGELMAN
47. Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust: A Portrait of Moral Courage	678	(13)
SAMUEL P. OLINER
Part II The Survivor Experience	691	(122)
48. "We're on Our Way, but We're Not in the Wilderness"	699	(17)
JACQUELINE GIERE
49. Way Station of Exodus: Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Austria	716	(17)
THOMAS ALBRICH
50. From Illegal Immigrants to New Immigrants: The Cyprus Detainees, 1946-1949	733	(17)
DALIA OFER
51. Against All Odds: Survivors of the Holocaust and the American Experience	750	(17)
WILLIAM B. HELMREICH
52. Holocaust Survivors in Past and Present	767	(18)
LEO EITINGER
53. Israeli Society and Recent Attitudes toward the Jews of Europe and Holocaust Survivors	785	(14)
DINA PORAT
54. History, Memory, and Truth: Defining the Place of the Survivor	799	(14)
DORI LAUB
MARJORIE ALLARD
Contributors	813	(8)
Index	821