Lessons and Legacies

by Thompson, Larry V.

• ISBN13: 9780810119895
• ISBN10: 0810119897
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

Essays that illustrate new areas of concern within Holocaust study and that explore neglected issues such as gender and place.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Theodore Zev Weiss
Foreword	xi
Larry V. Thompson
Introduction	xiii
I. Propriety
Lawrence L. Langer
Preempting the Holocaust	5	(19)
Robert Melson
Problems in the Comparison of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: Definitions, Typologies, Theories, and Fallacies	24	(17)
II. Morality
Doris L. Bergen
Religion and the Holocaust: Some Reflections	41	(25)
Michael Phayer
The Holocaust in the Shadow of the Cold War: Moral Questions about Papal Policy	66	(15)
Robert A. Krieg
To Nostra Aetate: Martin Buber and Romano Guardini	81	(20)
III. Legality
Ruth Bettina Birn
War Crimes Prosecutions: An Exercise in Justice? A Lesson in History?	101	(27)
Randolph L. Braham
The National Trials Relating to the Holocaust in Hungary: An Overview	128	(24)
Piotr Wróbel
Hitler's Helpers? The Judenräte Controversy	152	(11)
IV Sexuality
Marion Kaplan
Gender: A Crucial Tool in Holocaust Research	163	(8)
Atina Grossmann
Trauma, Memory, and Motherhood: Germans and Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949	171	(44)
V Proximity
Tomasz Kranz
Between Planning and Implementation: The Lublin District and Majdanek Camp in Nazi Policy	215	(21)
Geoffrey J. Giles
Confirming Their Prejudices: German University Students and Himmler's Resettlement Program	236	(14)
Jeffrey Lesser
Visions of the Other: Stereotypes, Survival, and the Refugee Question in Brazil	250	(17)
Notes on Contributors	267