Originally published: 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
9. Lee H. Igel -- PART I. The fate of the Jews in Austria, 1933-39 / 1. The Jewish communities of Europe on the eve of World War II / Jonathan C. Friedman -- 2. European antisemitism before the Holocaust and the roots of Nazism / William Brustein -- 3. Germany and the Armenian genocide of 1915-17 / Hans-Lukas Kieser -- 4. Eugenics, race hygiene, and the Holocaust: Antecedents and consolidations / Kirk C. Allison -- 5. Weimar Germany and the dilemmas of liberty / Eric D. Weitz -- 6. Hitler and the functioning of the Third Reich / Dieter Kuntz -- 7. The Thousand Year Reich's over one thousand anti-Jewish laws / Michael J. Bayzler -- 8. Persecution and gender: German-Jewish responses to Nazism, 1933-39 / Marion Kaplan -- 9. The fate of the Jews in Austria, 1933-39 / Lee H. Igel -- 17. Paradise/Hades, Purgatory, Hell/Gehenna: A political typology of the camps / 10. Victim and perpetrator perspectives of World War II-era ghettos / Robert Jan Van Pelt -- 11. Forging the "Aryan Utopia": Nazi racial policy in occupied Poland, 1939-45 / Bradley Nichols -- 12. The Nazi "euthanasia" program / Patricia Heberer -- 13. The Einsatzgruppen and the issue of "ordinary men" / Guillaume De Syon -- 14. The origins of the Final Solution / Christopher Browning -- 15. Forced labor in Nazi anti-Jewish policy, 1938-45 / Wolf Gruner -- 16. The concentration and extermination camps of the Nazi regime / Sybille Steinbacher -- 17. Paradise/Hades, Purgatory, Hell/Gehenna: A political typology of the camps / Robert Jan Van Pelt -- 25. Nation-building and mass violence: The Independent State of Croatia, 1941-45 / 18. Levels of accounting in Accounting for Genocide: A cross-national study of Jewish victimization during the Holocaust / Alexander Korb -- 19. Reichskommissariat Ostland / David Gaunt -- 20. The Holocaust in western Europe / Wolfgang Seibel -- 21. Norway's role in the Holocaust: The destruction of Norway's Jews / Bjarte Bruland -- 22. The special characteristics of the Holocaust in Hungary, 1938-45 / King Afrojimovics -- 23. The Final Solution in southeastern Europe: Between Nazi catalysts and local motivations / James Frusetta -- 24. Transnistria: The Holocaust in Romania / Ronit Fischer -- 25. Nation-building and mass violence: The Independent State of Croatia, 1941-45 / Alexander Korb -- 35. The Jewish DP experience / 26. Sweden's complicated neutrality and the rescue of Danish Jewry / Boaz Cohen -- 27. The Rescuers: When the ordinary is extraordinary / Michael Berenbaum -- 28. Jewish resistance against Nazism / John M. Cox -- 29. "But I forsook not Thy precepts" (Ps. 119:87): Spiritual resistance to the Holocaust / Stephen Howard Garrin -- 30. The church, theology, and the Holocaust / Franklin Hamlin Littell and Marcia Sachs Littell -- 31. Model denomination or totalitarian sect? Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany / James Irvin Lichti -- 32. The neglected memory of the Romanies in the Holocaust/Porrajmos / Ian Hancock -- 33. The persecution of gay men and lesbians during the Third Reich / Geoffrey J. Giles -- 34. Double jeopardy: Being Jewish and female in the Holocaust / Myrna Goldenberg -- 35. The Jewish DP experience / Boaz Cohen -- Conclusion / Toward a post-Holocaust theology in art: The search for the absent and present God / 36. Putting the Holocaust on trial in the two Germanies, 1945-89 / Saul S. Friedman. 37. Music in the Nazi ghettos and camps / Shirli Gilbert -- 38. Holocaust documentaries / Lynne Fallwell, Robert G. Weiner -- 39. Sequential art narrative and the Holocaust / Robert G. Weiner, Lynne Fallwell -- 40. The role of the survivors in the remembrance of the Holocaust: Memorial monuments and Yizkor books / Rita Horvath -- 41. "The war began for me after the war": Jewish children in Poland, 1945-49 / Joanna B. Michlic -- 42. Toward a post-Holocaust theology in art: The search for the absent and present God / Stephen C. Feinstein -- Conclusion / Saul S. Friedman.
Summary:
"The genocide of Jewish and non-Jewish civilians perpetrated by the German regime during World War II continues to confront scholars with elusive questions even after nearly seventy years and hundreds of studies. This multi-contributory work is a landmark publication that sees experts renowned in their field addressing these questions in light of current research"--Cover.
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