Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270).
Contents:
pt. 6. The failure to comprehend / Anti-Semitism through the ages / Walter Laqueur. Hitler's decisive role / Ian Kershaw ; The opening act of Nazi genocide / Henry Friedlander -- pt. 2. The motivations of the killers: The Nazi doctors / Robert Jay Lifton ; Hitler's army / Omer Bartov ; "Ordinary men" / Christopher R. Browning -- pt. 3. The victims' experiences: Helpless victims / Bruno Bettelheim ; The will to survive / Terrence Des Pres ; The gray zone / Primo Levi ; Women and the Holocaust / Zöe Vania Waxman -- pt. 4. The problem of Jewish resistance: Two thousand years of Jewish appeasement / Raul Hilberg ; Forms of Jewish resistance / Yehuda Bauer ; Why the Jewish councils cooperated / Dan Diner -- pt. 5. Bystander reactions: The Poles helped persecute the Jews / Yisrael Gutman and Shmuel Krakowski ; The Poles were fellow victims / Richard C. Lukas ; Western Europeans and the Jews / Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton ; Righteous gentiles / Nechama Tec -- pt. 6. Possibilities of rescue: The myth of rescue / William D. Rubinstein ; The silence of Pope Pius XII / Michael Phayer ; The failure to comprehend / Walter Laqueur.
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