The Holocaust and History - The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined

"A huge and hugely significant collection of much of the best Holocaust scholarship to appear in the last half-century." -Kirkus Reviews

". . . magnificent . . . surely among [the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's] greatest achievements to date. . . . The range of the essays is nothing short of breathtaking." -Jerusalem Post

Fifty-four chapters by the world's most eminent Holocaust researchers probe topics such as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, deportation, and the death camps; Jewish leadership and resistance; the role of the Allies, the Axis, and neutral countries; the deeds of the rescuers; and the impact of the Holocaust on survivors.

List of contents

Part 1: Probing the Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go

1. Sources and Their Uses

2. A Past That Will Not Go Away

3. The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go

4. The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to GöA Comment

Part 2: Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology

5. The Use of Antisemitism in Nazi Wartime Propaganda

6. The Holocaust: A Very Particular Racism

7. Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology

8. Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Reinterpretations of National Socialism

Part 3: The Politics of Racial Health and Science

9. Human Genetics and the Mass Murder of Jews, Gypsies, and Others

10. From Colonial Racism to Nazi Population Policy

11. The Cooperation of German Racial Hygienists and American Eugenicists before and after 1933

Part 4: The Nazi State: Leadership and Bureaucracy

12. Reinhard Heydrich and the Planning for the Final Solution

13. Plans for the Final Solution in Early 1941

14. State Policy and Corporate Involvement in the Holocaust

15. Civil Service and the Implementation of the Holocaust

16. Other Crimes of Adolf Hitler

Part 5: "Ordinary Men": The Sociopolitical Background

17. The T4 Killers

18. Ordinary Germans or Ordinary Men? A Reply

19. Complicity or Entanglement? Wehrmacht, War, and Holocaust

20. Amsterdam Police and the Persecution of the Jews

21. Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans?

Part 6: Multiple Voices: Ideology, Exclusion, and Coercion

22. Neglected Holocaust Victims

23. "Slapping Up Spastics"

24. Final Solution of the Homosexual Question?

25. The Pink Triangle: Homosexuals as "Enemies of the State"

26. The Black Experience during the Holocaust

Part 7: Concentration Camps: Their Task and Environment

27. Auschwitz

28. Antechamber to Birkenau

29. Concentration Camps and the Non-Jewish Environment

30. Mauthausen, the Camps of the Shoah, and the Bystanders

Part 8: The Axis, the Allies, and the Neutrals

31. The Holocaust in Hungary

32. The Holocaust in Italy: Areas of Inquiry

33. Antonescu and the Jews

34. The Allies and the Holocaust

35. Surviving the Holocaust: The Situation in France

36. British Responses to the Plight of Jews in Europe, 1933-1945

37. Understanding the Success of Swedish Diplomacy in Budapest, 1944-1945

38. Refugees in Turkey

39. The Catholic Response to the Holocaust: Institutional Perspectives

40. The Ecclesiastical Final Solution: German Christian Movement and the Anti-Jewish Church

Part 9: Jewish Leadership, Jewish Resistance

41. The Armed Jewish Resistance in Eastern Europe

42. Remembering and Invoking 1789 during the Holocaust

43. The Jewish Underground Press in France and the Struggle to Expose the Nazi Secret of the Final Solution

44. Czech and Slovak Wartime Jewish Leadership

Part 10: The Rescuers

45. Reflections on Rescuers

46. The Rescuer Self

47. Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust

Part 11: The Survivor Experience

48. "We're on Our Way, but We're Not in the Wilderness"

49. Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Austria

50. The Cyprus Detainees, 1946-1949

51. Survivors of the Holocaust and the American Experience

52. Holocaust Survivors in Past and Present

53. Israeli Society and Recent Attitudes toward the Jews of Europe and Holocaust Survivors 54. History, Memory, and Truth: Defining the Place of the Survivor

Contributors

Index

About the author

Michael Berenbaum is former Director of the Research Institute of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Among his publications are After Tragedy and Triumph: Modern Jewish Thought and the American Experience and The World Must Know.
Abraham J. Peck teaches in the Department of History, University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Radicals and Reactionaries: The Crisis of Conservatism in Wilhelmine Germany and coeditor of Queen City Refuge: An Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany.

Summary

Benchmark publication with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that discloses and defines what we know about the Holocaust

Product details

• Authors: Michael Berenbaum, Abraham Peck
• Assisted by: Michael Berenbaum (Editor), Abraham Peck (Editor), Abraham J Peck (Editor), Abraham J. Peck (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780253215291
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21529-1
• No. of pages: 854
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 45 mm
• Weight: 1270 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism