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Complete with an introduction that summarises the state of the field, this book contains major reinterpretations by leading Holocaust authors along with key texts on testimony, memory, and justice after the catastrophe.
List of contents
List of maps
List of figures
Series editor’s preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
OMER BARTOV
Part I
Origins: racism and antisemitism
- "One of these races has got to go…" Colonialism and Genocide
Cathie Carmichael (Genocide before the Holocaust, Yale UP, 2009, 56-70)
- Judeophobia and the Nazi Identity
Philippe Burrin (Nazi Anti-Semitism, The New Press, 2005, 39-63)
- Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition": Anthropology, Racist Ideology, and Mass Murder in the Occupied East
Isabel Heinemann (Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe, 1938-1945, ed. Anton Weiss-Wendt, et al., University of Nebraska Press, 2013, 35-59)
Part II
Implementation: normalizing genocide
- Camps and Ghettos – Forced Labor in the Reich Gau Wartheland, 1939-1944
Wolf Gruner (Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis, Cambridge UP, 2006, 177-195)
- The Holocaust and the concentration camps
Dieter Pohl (Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, ed. Jane Caplan et al., Routledge, 2010, 149-166)
- Decision-making in the "Final Solution"
Peter Longerich (Holocaust, Oxford UP, 2010, 422-435)
- "Once again I’ve got to play general to the Jews": from the war diary of Blutordensträger Felix Landau
Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen and Volker Riess (Simon&Schuster, as in 1st ed., 187-203)
- Keeping calm and weathering the storm: Jewish women’s responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939
Marion Kaplan (Women in the Holocaust, ed. D. Ofer, et al., Yale UP, 1998, 39-54)
- "Give Me Your Children"
Gordon J. Horwitz (Ghettostadt, Harvard UP, 2008, 192-231)
- Ghetto diary
Janusz Korczak (Yale UP, 2003, 100-115)
- "And it was something we didn’t talk about": Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust
Helene J. Sinnreich (Holocaust Studies 14/2, 2008, 1-22)
- Between sanity and insanity: spheres of everyday life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando
Gideon Greif (Gray Zones, ed. J. Petropoulos, et al., Berghahn Books, 2005, 37-60)
Part III
Aftermath: testimony, justice, and continuity
- Wartime Lies and Other Testimonies: Jewish-Christian Relations in Buczacz, 1939-1944
Omer Bartov (East European Politics and Societies 25/3 2011, 486-511)
- Khurbn Forshung – Jewish Historical Commissions in Europe, 1943–1949
Laura Jockusch (Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 6, 2007, 441-473)
- Semantics of Extermination: The Use of the New Term of Genocide in the Nuremberg Trials and the Genesis of a Master Narrative
Alexa Stiller (Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, ed. Kim C. Priemel et al., Berghahn Books, 2012, 104-133)
- Theorizing Destruction: Reflections on the State of Comparative Genocide Theory
Maureen S. Hiebert (
Genocide Studies and Prevention 3/3 2008, 309-339)
Appendices
- Geographical maps
- Chronology of events
Index
About the author
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and German Studies at Brown University and has written on the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and modern genocide. His books include Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (2003) and Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide and Modern Identity (2000).
Summary
Complete with an introduction that summarises the state of the field, this book contains major reinterpretations by leading Holocaust authors along with key texts on testimony, memory, and justice after the catastrophe.
