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Format: 373 Seiten

ISBN: 0395840090

Content: "How has the Holocaust come to loom so large in American life." "Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long - how dwelling on German crimes interfered with cold war mobilization; how American Jews not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and to come out on top in a sordid competition over what group had suffered most; politicians using it to score points with Jewish voters." "With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments. Have American Jews, by making the Holocaust the emblematic Jewish experience, given Hitler a posthumous victory, tacitly endorsing his definition of Jews as despised pariahs? Does the Holocaust really teach useful lessons and sensitize us to atrocities, or, by making the Holocaust the measure, does it make lesser crimes seem not so bad ? What are we to make of the fact that while Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars for museums recording a European crime, there is no museum of American slavery?"--BOOK JACKET.

Note: Engl. Ausg. u.d.T.: The Holocaust and collective memory

Additional Edition: Parallele Sprachausgabe The Holocaust and collective memory

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science , Theology

Keywords: USA ; Judenvernichtung ; Rezeption ; Geschichte 1945-1999 ; USA ; Judenvernichtung ; Auswirkung ; USA ; Judenvernichtung ; Geschichtsbewusstsein ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Geschichte 1939-2000

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URL: Verlagsangaben

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Author information: Novick, Peter 1934-2012

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Format: XIX, 222 S.

ISBN: 0813326419 , 0813326427

Content: Evaluating the Jewish Holocaust is by no means a simple matter, and one of the most controversial questions for academics is whether there have been any historical parallels for it. Have Armenians, Gypsies, American Indians, or others undergone a comparable genocide? In this fiercely controversial volume, distinguished scholars offer new discussions of this question. Presenting a wide range of strongly held views, they provide no easy consensus

Content: Some critics contend that if the Holocaust is seen as fundamentally different in kind from other genocides or mass deaths, the suffering of other persecuted groups will be diminished. Others argue that denying the uniqueness of the Holocaust will trivialize it. Alan Rosenbaum's introduction provides a much-needed context for readers to come to terms with this multidimensional dispute, to help them understand why it has recently intensified, and to enable them to appreciate what universal lessons might be gleaned from studying the Holocaust

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science , Theology , Philosophy

Keywords: Judenvernichtung ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Judenvernichtung ; Völkermord ; Geschichte ; Vergleich ; Judenvernichtung ; Völkermord ; Vergleich ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: XI, 199 S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0415121337 , 0415121345

Series Statement: Routledge sources in history

Content: What was the relationship between ordinary Germans and Hitler's government? Why did such a dreadful political system find any popular support at all? Who was brave enough to defy the laws of the Third Reich? This book examines decisions made by different social groups to resist or conform to the Nazi regime. Using accessible language, and drawing on the full range of sources available to historians, Martyn Housden adopts a thematic approach to the subject. He considers, for example, why church-goers failed to reject decisively Hitler's atheistic political movement; what impact the persecution of Germany's Jewish citizens had on the everyday lives of other Germans; why the Hitler Youth held such appeal for young people.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Nationalsozialismus ; Konformität ; Quelle ; Nationalsozialismus ; Widerstand ; Geschichte ; Quelle ; Deutschland ; Konformität ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Quelle ; Deutschland ; Konformität ; Nationalsozialismus ; Opposition ; Geschichte ; Quelle

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a6v2-aa

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/96018379-d.html

Author information: Housden, Martyn 1962-

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Format: X, 622 S. , Ill., Kt.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0679446958

Series Statement: A Borzoi book

Content: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researchers have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. That question is: "How could the Holocaust happen?" His own response is a new exploration of those who carried out the Holocaust and of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism - and it demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945

Content: Drawing principally on materials either unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Goldhagen marshals new, disquieting, primary evidence - including extensive testimony from the actual perpetrators themselves - to show that many beliefs about the killers are fallacies: They were not primarily SS men or Nazi Party members, but perfectly ordinary Germans from all walks of life, men (and women) who brutalized and murdered Jews both willingly and zealously

Content: And they did so, moreover, not because they were coerced (for, as he shows irrefutably, so many were informed by their own commanders that they could refuse to kill without fear of retribution)...not because they slavishly followed orders (a view seemingly supported by Stanley Milgram's famous Yale "obedience experiment")...not because of any tremendous social, psychological, or peer pressure to conform to the behaviour of their comrades (for no such evidence exists)...and not for any reasons associated with Hannah Arendt's disputed notion of the "banality of evil." They acted as they did because of a widespread, profound, unquestioned, and virulent antisemitism that led them to regard the Jews as a demonic enemy whose extermination was not only necessary but also just

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Deutschland ; Antisemitismus ; Judenvernichtung ; Deutschland ; Drittes Reich ; Bevölkerung ; Judenvernichtung ; Teilnahme ; Motivation ; Schuld ; Attribution ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Judenvernichtung ; Teilnahme ; Mitläufer ; Motivation ; Antisemitismus ; Judenvernichtung ; Ordnungspolizei ; Täter ; Motivation ; Judenvernichtung ; Mitläufer ; Schuld ; Attribution ; Deutschland ; Antisemitismus ; Geschichte 1807-1945 ; Judenvernichtung ; Nationalsozialistischer Verbrecher ; Hochschulschrift

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0410/95038591.html

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/95038591.html

Author information: Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah 1959-

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Format: VIII, 322 S.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 081562669X , 0815626703

Content: One of America's most prominent historians probes the haunting question of why the efforts of the American government and Jewish leaders were ineffective in halting or mitigating Berlin's genocidal policy during the Holocaust. Focusing on the role of the Roosevelt administration and American Jewish leadership, Henry L. Feingold anchors the American reaction to the Holocaust in the tension-ridden domestic environment of the depression to the international scene. In these essays, he argues that the constraints of the American political system in the 1930s and 40s and the extraordinary events of the time virtually made it impossible for the administration and American Jews to react differently.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: USA ; Judenvernichtung ; USA ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Judenvernichtung ; Geschichte 1939-1945

Author information: Feingold, Henry L. 1931-

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Format: XI, 234 S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0275951391

Content: When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, the country's Jewish population numbered nearly 200,000. Those Jews who were able to find refuge in neutral countries were safe; those who fled to countries subsequently overrun by the Nazis were eventually hunted down. Between 1938 and 1945, more than 50,000 Austrian Jews were deported; no more than 2,000 returned. The estimate of Austrian Jews caught by the Nazis in neighboring countries is 17,000. Therefore, more than one-third of Austria's Jewish population were killed during this period. After extensive research of the records at the various documentation centers and using primary as well as secondary sources, Schneider relates how Jews lived in Austria until either flight or deportation; she follows the transports to their destination and, using the fate of family and friends as examples, describes the experiences in the camps, as well as the homecoming of the survivors. In the process, Schneider provides the most detailed account available on the fate of exiles and victims from Austria. She concludes with a complete list of all camp survivors. A gripping historical record for all students of the Holocaust and modern European history.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Österreich ; Juden ; Geschichte 1938-1945 ; Österreich ; Judenverfolgung ; Geschichte 1938-1945 ; Österreich ; Juden ; Exil ; Geschichte 1938-1945

Author information: Schneider, Gertrude 1928-2020

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Format: XXXV, 351 S. , graph. Darst.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0521560314

Content: The easy success of National Social "coordination" of German lawyers in private practice in 1933 has puzzled historians. Within five months, a profession that had been considered a bulwark of civil society bowed to the demands of a party whose leader viewed lawyers with contempt and valued race over right

Content: Through a detailed empirical study of the practicing bar in Germany, Ledford traces the history of German lawyers from the heady days of reform to 1878 to their abject defeat in 1933. In the 1870s, lawyers basked in the widespread assessment of their profession as a sort of Hegelian "general estate," representing the general interest and entitled to respect, deference, and leadership. Many believed that reform of the legal profession was the key to success in the project of the liberal Burgertum. Liberal reformers and lawyers achieved almost all of their aims in the great legislative reform of 1878, carving out space for the bar to create its own institutions, to govern its internal affairs, and to assume the public role that theory ascribed to it

Content: But developments between 1878 and 1933 did not turn out as expected. Lawyers brought with them inherent limitations of conceptual vision, professional structure, and social flexibility. Their training installed in them a belief in the primacy of procedure that linked them with liberalism but constrained their imagination as they faced the massive changes of the era. They built elite professional institutions that became the terrain of intraprofessional power struggles. Reform attracted new social groups to the bar, creating tensions that rendered it unable to represent professional interest or even to maintain the claim that a unitary professional interest existed. By the 1920s, lawyers' claim to be the general estate was no longer tenable, instead they were merely one of many special interests in a society and state that to increasing numbers of Germans appeared dangerously fragmented

Language: English

Subjects: History , Law

Keywords: Rechtsanwalt ; Sozialgeschichte 1878-1933 ; Deutschland ; Rechtsanwalt ; Geschichte 1878-1933 ; Deutschland ; Rechtsanwalt ; Beruf ; Geschichte 1878-1933

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URL: Inhaltstext

URL: Rezension

URL: http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a4w0-aa

URL: Verlagsangaben

URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=16166

URL: http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a4w0-aa

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam027/95044521.html

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam026/95044521.html

Author information: Ledford, Kenneth F. 1953-

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Format: XV, 236 S. , Ill.

ISBN: 0312218192 , 0312133936

Series Statement: Bedford series in history and culture

Content: Were Americans heroic liberators of Nazi concentration camp victims at the end of World War II, or were they knowing and apathetic bystanders of unspeakable brutality and annihilation? This question has long haunted historians, who hotly debate what the United States knew about Hitler's gruesome Final Solution, when they knew it, and whether they should have intervened sooner. Wrapping historical narrative around 60 primary sources, including news clippings, speeches, letters, magazine articles, and government reports, this volume's three part organization chronicles what was unfolding in Nazi Germany through the lens of American reporters and writers, traces the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the US as well as its increasingly tight immigration policies, and then reveals Americans' horror upon the realization that the reports and stories of the Holocaust were not exaggerations or fabrications. An epilogue examines the complexity of historical interpretations and moral judgments that have evolved since 1945.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: USA ; Judenvernichtung ; USA ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Deutschland ; Judenverfolgung ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Quelle ; Quelle

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Format: XIV, 757, [24] S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0394529154

Series Statement: A Borzoi book

Content: Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers. Out of her probings a huge, and hugely alive, portrait emerges. Sereny takes us through the emotional desert of Speer's childhood and marriage, through his embrace (basically, she demonstrates, for nonideological reasons) of the Nazi Party and his service as Minister of Armaments and Munitions, during which his brutal use of slave labor extended a lost war. She superbly portrays the circles in which Speer functioned: the ambivalent General Staff and the infinitely peculiar and nightmarish upper echelons of Nazism

Content: We see Speer accused of war crimes at Nuremberg, and during his twenty years in Spandau prison, struggling to accept individual responsibility for his actions. Throughout, in person or in memory, Hitler is startlingly present, his friendship with Speer bordering on love. Sereny shows us Speer as inveterate schemer, as spectacular planner and maneuverer. We see him also as unique among Hitler's men in the integrity of his battle with conscience. His progress from moral blindness through moral self-education to a torturous coming-to-terms with his own acts - this is the elemental matter at the heart of a book that stunningly illuminates the man, the war, the Third Reich, the Nazi mind and the complex comingling, in one person or society, of good and evil

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Deutschland ; Kunst ; Nationalsozialismus ; Speer, Albert 1905-1981 ; Biografie

Author information: Sereny, Gitta 1923-2012

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Format: XI, 269, [16] S. , Ill., Kt.

ISBN: 0395822955

Content: "Before World War II, Bransk, in eastern Poland, was a shtetl whose population was equally divided between Poles and Jews. Today there are no Jews left in Bransk. In [this book] Hoffman ... reconstructs the lost world of Polish Jewry up until its final days. She explores its rich culture and institutions and looks at the forms of Polish-Jewish coexistence during several centuries, the shades of prejudice and tolerance, and the phases of conflict and comity. By probing the deep ambivalences that colored relations between Poles and Jews on the eve of World War II, she throws new light on the motives that influenced Christian villagers' decisions to rescue or betray their Jewish neighbors when the Nazis invaded."--Jacket.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Brańsk ; Juden ; Geschichte ; Polen ; Judentum ; Geschichte ; Polen ; Juden ; Lebensform ; Geschichte ; Brańsk ; Alltag ; Juden ; Geschichte Anfänge-1948 ; Polen ; Juden ; Geschichte ; Brańsk ; Judenvernichtung ; Geschichte

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