Ghettostadt - Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City

Informationen zum Autor Gordon J. Horwitz is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Wesleyan University. Klappentext Ghettostadt is a terrifying examination of the Jewish ghettös place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it deftly maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of ¿ód¿¿s beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and the ghettös affairs, and the ¿ordinary¿ inhabitants of the once Polish city. Zusammenfassung Ghettostadt is a terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto’s place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it deftly maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of Lódz’s beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and the ghetto’s affairs, and the “ordinary” inhabitants of the once Polish city. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Prologue * Autumn 1939: Conquest * A City without Jews * The Enclosure * The Ghetto Will Endure * The Ghetto and the City of the Future * Banishment * Departure! Worry! and Disappearance *"Give Me Your Children!" * Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? * Numbered Are the Days * Epilogue * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Gordon J Horwitz, Gordon J. Horwitz, Horwitz Gordon J.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2010
• EAN: 9780674045545
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04554-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, Eastern Europe, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Second World War, The Holocaust, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General