The Holocaust Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation

by Niewyk, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780618214624
• ISBN10: 0618214623
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This volume in the Problems in European Civilization Series features a collection of secondary-source essays focusing on aspects of the Holocaust. The essays in this book debate the origins of the Holocaust, the motivations of the killers, the experience of the victims, and the various possibilities for intervention or rescue. The proven series format features key scholarship, chapter and essay introductions, and extensive, up-to-date suggestions for further reading. The selections are edited for both content and length, making this single volume a convenient alternative to course packets or multiple monographs.

Table of Contents

Chronology of Events

Glossary Reference Map: Poland, 1939–1945, with Locations of Concentration and Extermination Camps Table

Estimated Jewish Deaths in the Holocaust Table

Estimated Gypsy Deaths in the Holocaust

Introduction

Origins of the Holocaust

Anti-Semitism Through the Ages

Hitler's Decisive Role

The Opening Act of

The Motivations of the Killers

The Nazi Doctors

Ordinary Men

Hitler's

The Holocaust Experience

Helpless Victims Terrence

The Will to Survive

Women's Survival Skills Lawrence

Gendered Suffering?

The Problem of Jewish Resistance

Two Thousand Years of Jewish Appeasement

Forms of Jewish Resistance

Why the Jewish Councils Cooperated

Bystander Reactions

The Poles Helped Persecute the Jews

The Poles Were Fellow

Western Europeans and the

The Altruistric Personality

Possibilities of Rescue

The Myth of Rescue Michael Phayer, The Silence of Pope Pius

Walter Laqueur, The Failure to Comprehend Suggestions for Additional Reading

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