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"This volume in the Cambridge History of the Holocaust focuses on perpetration and complicity in the Holocaust. Every aspect of this undertaking is contentious, starting with the illusion often associated with comprehensive histories such as this one that it is "definitive," as if its topic has been exhaustively researched to leave no question unanswered. Nothing could be further from the truth. The very term "Holocaust," which came into widespread usage only from the late 1970s, itself constructs an all-embracing concept encompassing a great variety of disparate events across Nazi-dominated Europe: face-to-face shootings along the Eastern Front; gassing in the notorious death camps in occupied Poland; deaths from disease, starvation, and brutality in the course of expropriation, ghettoization, economic exploitation, and the final death marches; and it can also, on some views, be extended back to encompass persecution before the atrocities accompanying the outbreak of war in 1939 or the switch to policies of extermination in 1941"--
List of contents
Part I. Structures, Players, and Processes: 1. Hitler, the Nazi leadership and the evolution of the final solution Christopher Browning; 2. The Nazi apparatus of terror: SS, SA, police Jochen Böhler; 3. Bystanders, collaboration and complicity; 4. Bystanders, collaboration and complicity Elizabeth Harvey; 5. The German economy and the exploitation and extermination of the Jews Susanne Heim; 6. The Wehrmacht, its allies, and 'partisan threats' Ben Shepherd; 7. Gender and perpetration Elissa Mailänder; 8. Perpetrator depictions of violence and the obliteration of evidence Valerie Hébert; 9. Discourses, knowledge, and disbelief in the Reich and beyond Frank Bajohr and Felix Berge; 10. 'Euthanasia', 'Germanization', and the beginnings of the Holocaust, 1939-1941 Isabel Heinemann; 11. The personnel and functioning of the extermination camps Sara Berger and Donald Bloxham; Part II. Times and Places: 12. Ghettos and other confined spaces of Jewish life in Nazi-dominated Europe Dan Michmann; 13. German and local violence in the Balkans Emil Kerenji; 14. Forced migration, flight and refuge in the West Miriam Rürup; 15. 'War of annihilation' in the occupied Soviet Union, 1941-1942 Edward Westermann; 16. Neighbors and killing in the East Tomasz Frydel; 17. 'Aktion Reinhardt' and the murder of the polish Jews Stephan Lehnstaedt; 18. Collaboration in German-dominated western Europe Peter Romijn; 19. Deportations from central and western Europe Birthe Kundrus and Jan Kreutz; 20. Remaining Jewish spaces and their liquidation, 1942-1944 Tatjana Tönsmeyer; 21. 'Operation Höss:' Auschwitz and the murder of the Hungarian Jews Gábor Kádár and Zoltán Vági; 22. Death marches of camp inmates and German atrocities at the war's end Daniel Blatman; 23. German agency and the Holocaust as a European project Jürgen Matthäus and Mary Fulbrook.
About the author
Mary Fulbrook, FBA, is Professor of German History at University College London. Her recent monographs include Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (2023), the Wolfson Prize-winning Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (2018), and the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (2012).Jürgen Matthäus is a historian and was Director of the Applied Research branch at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2004 to 2005. He is the author or (co-)editor of more than twenty books, including, as co-editor with Martin Cüppers and Anne Lepper, From “Euthanasia” to Sobibor: An SS Officer's Photo Collection (2022).
