Examines the degree to which the German public actively assented to the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. Using Nazi and Allied intelligence sources, and informal eye-witness accounts, the book attempts to show in what way the German public was implicated in the guilt of genocide.
2000 Probing the Depths of German German Society and the Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941 (H) Edited by David Bankier *** 9781571812384 ***585 Pages
Dilemmas, silence, active rescue, and passivity are words often associated with Pius XII.
Lithuania ranks among the countries with the largest percentage of Jewish Holocaust victims. Of the approximately quarter of a million Jews who lived within its borders at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, only some eight thousand were fortunate enough to see the end of the Nazi occupation.The Jews who lived in the Lithuanian provinces were totally annihilated during the first few months of the war. The intensity of these massacres was unprecedented the obliteration of entire communities in the inhuman, unimaginable, face-to-face murder of utterly helpless people, including the old, women, children and infants.This book gives an account of the annihilation of these communities, relying on rich documentary evidence of the survivors, selected from Leyb Koniuchovsky s collection at Yad Vashem. It provides a complete picture of the humiliation, stigmatization, isolation, slave labor and suffering in the ghettos before the Jews were put to death. It describes the massive participation of the Lithuanians in the persecution and murder, and reveals the extent to which conditions in the Lithuanian provinces affected the dynamics of the Final Solution."
The Holocaust was not a major issue in the thirteen Nuremberg trials conducted in Germany between 1945-1949 by the International Military Tribunal. Can the word 'justice' be used to refer to trials that did not fully recognize the centrality of the Holocaust? What was the background of the postwar war crimes trials, and what was their impact on society and collective memory? How did they shape international law? This book brings together observations on these and other issues from a broad range of international scholars on the representation of the Holocaust in the postwar trials and its historiography.
The modes in which historical research is being shaped have become themselves topics of research. Holocaust historiography - the documentation, depiction and analysis of one of the most horrific events in human history - is today a wide ranging academic field in which Jewish and non-Jewish scholars throughout the world are active. But how did this historiography, especially its Jewish aspect, emerge and by what factors was it shaped? This volume examines the very beginnings of the effort to apply scholarly standards to the understanding of the Holocaust - when World War II was still raging and immediately after it had ended.
Nazi Europe and the Final Solution is a collection of articles based on the academic papers delivered at an international conference that took place in August 1999, in Warsaw, Poland. Most articles included in this volume tackle the disturbing question: “How did people react when their neighbors were made outcasts, humiliated, deported and later vanished without a trace?” Featured in the volume are selected studies of both established scholars and young researchers who attempt to clarify and analyze the attitudes of clerical institutions, official institutions, and resistance organizations. The conference and publication were sponsored by the Gertner Center for International Holocaust Conferences and the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
Die Gesprächssituation ermöglicht es, komplexe Themenzusammenhänge und die Ergebnisse jahrzehntelanger Forschung schlaglichtartig zu fokussieren: Die Spezialisten aus den Bereichen Geschichte, Philosophie, Religions- und Literaturwissenschaft stellen sich u. a. den Fragen: Warum die Juden und warum die Deutschen? Waren die Täter »ganz normale Männer«? Wie wichtig war die Person Adolf Hitler für die Genese des Holocaust? Wodurch unterscheiden sich die intentionalistische und die funktionalistische Schule in der Erklärung des Holocaust? Welche Kontinuitäten bestehen zwischen dem traditionellen Antisemitismus und dem NS-Antisemitismus? Die Gesprächspartner sind: Aharon Appelfeld, David Bankier, Yehuda Bauer, Christopher Browning, Jacques Derrida, Israel Gutman, Saul Friedländer, Susanne Heim, Dominick LaCapra, Franklin Littel, Michael Marrus, Hans Mommsen, Gabriel Motzkin, Shulamit Volkov, James E. Young