The Holocaust A Reader,9781405114004

The Holocaust A Reader

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781405114004
ISBN10: 1405114002
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-01-28
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust. Interdisciplinary content encourages students to engage with philosophical, political, cultural and literary debate as well as historiographical issues. Integrates oral histories and testimonies from both victims and perpetrators, including Jewish council leaders, victims of ghettos and camps, SS officials and German soldiers. Subsections can be used as the basis for oral or written exercises. Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.

Author Biography

Simone Gigliotti is a lecturer in the History Program at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, she taught at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC.


Berel Lang is Professor of Humanities at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. His many books include The Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory (1999) and Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (1990). His forthcoming book is Post-Holocaust: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
viii
Acknowledgments ix
Chronology xiii
Glossary xix
Introduction 1(8)
Simone Gigliotti
Berel Lang
Part I Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism
9(76)
Introduction
11(6)
Anti-Semites
17(27)
Bernard Lewis
From Weimar to Hitler
44(24)
Robert S. Wistrich
Nation and Race
68(14)
Adolf Hitler
Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935
82(3)
Part II A Racial Europe: Nazi Population and Resettlement Policy
85(86)
Introduction
87(5)
The Setting
92(32)
Henry Friedlander
Ghetto Formation
124(19)
Raul Hilberg
From ``Ethnic Cleansing'' to Genocide to the ``Final Solution'': The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939--1941
143(24)
Christopher R. Browning
Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East
167(4)
Heinrich Himmler
Part III War and the Turn to Genocide
171(62)
Introduction
173(4)
The ``Commissar Decree,'' June 6, 1941
177(4)
Affidavit of SS Gruppenfuhrer Otto Ohlendorf
181(3)
Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation
184(14)
Jurgen Forster
From Mass Murder to the ``Final Solution'': The Shooting of Jewish Civilians during the First Months of the Eastern Campaign within the Context of the Nazi Jewish Genocide
198(22)
Peter Longerich
Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II
220(13)
Omer Bartov
Part IV Whose ``Final Solution''? Revisiting Intentionalism and Functionalism
233(74)
Introduction
235(4)
Hitler's Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939
239(4)
Adolf Hitler
Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942
243(9)
Intentions and the ``Final Solution''
252(12)
Berel Lang
A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism
264(37)
Martin Broszat
Saul Friedlander
Justice Jackson's Report to the President on Atrocities and War Crimes, June 7, 1945
301(6)
Robert H. Jackson
Part V Response and Testimony: At the Center of the Whirlwind
307(80)
Introduction
309(4)
Inside the Ghetto
313(20)
Emmanuel Ringelblum
Notebook H
333(15)
Oskar Rosenfeld
The Second Winter: October 29, 1942--March 18, 1943
348(28)
Herman Kruk
Letters from Westerbork
376(11)
Etty Hillesum
Part VI Genocide and the Holocaust
387(61)
Introduction
389(4)
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948
393(5)
Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept
398(22)
Helen Fein
Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide?
420(28)
Mark Levene
Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the ``Racial Century'': Genocides of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust
448
A. Dirk Moses

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