The Nazi Holocaust

by Landau, Ronnie S.

• ISBN13: 9781566630528
• ISBN10: 1566630525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

Brief but surprisingly comprehensive, The Nazi Holocaust places the tragedy in historical perspective, summarizes the major events, and considers the moral, ethical, and psychological issues that have followed in its wake. An outstanding introduction, clearly and intelligently written....Landau helps the reader to confront the Holocaust within the frame of human experience, on a level we can all understand. --Margot Stern Strom, Facing History and Ourselves

Table of Contents

Author's Preface
The Historical, Educational and Moral Significance of the Holocaust	p. 3
Survey of Jewish History: c.300 BC. to c.1700	p. 25
The European Jew and the Modern World	p. 48
Nazism and Modern Germany: From National Unification to Hitler's Accession to Power	p. 75
Nazi Germany, 1933-8: Anti-Jewish Policy and Legislation	p. 115
Nazi Europe, 1938-41: From Kristallnacht to Ghettoization in the East	p. 134
The Holocaust, 1941-5: From Dehumanization to Annihilation	p. 161
Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders	p. 183
The Jewish Question: Public Opinion in Nazi Germany	p. 222
The Aftermath and Impact of the Holocaust	p. 243
Notes	p. 266
Bibliography	p. 276
Appendix A: Euphemisms of Death	p. 289
Appendix B: Yossel Rakover's Appeal to God	p. 291
Appendix C: The Jewish Question - Excerpts from Hitler's Writings	p. 298
Appendix D: The Programme of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party	p. 306
Appendix E: The Nuremberg Laws	p. 310
Appendix F: German Foreign Ministry Memorandum	p. 313
Appendix G: Numbers of Jews Murdered in Europe	p. 316
Chronology of the Holocaust (1933-45)	p. 317
Glossary of Basic Terms	p. 327
Principal Characters	p. 331
Index	p. 337
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