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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Contributors | |
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| History of the Holocaust | |
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| From Religious Prejudice to Racism | |
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| Images of Jews in the Medieval Period | |
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| The Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther, 1543 | |
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| Political Statement by Adolf Hitler, September 16, 1919 | |
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| The Creation of a Racist Society | |
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| Signs of Racism, Symbols of Segregation | |
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| Excerpts from the Texts of the Nuremberg Laws | |
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| Combating the Gypsy Nuisance by Heinrich Himmler, December 8, 1938 | |
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| Report on Crystal Night from Berlin | |
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| Public Reactions to the Yellow Star and Deportations | |
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| The Killing Process | |
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| Protocol of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942 | |
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| Images of the Warsaw Ghetto | |
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| Excerpt from the Warsaw Ghetto Diary of Avraham Levin, Friday, June 5, 1942 | |
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| Chaim Rumkowski's Address on the Deportation of the Children from the Lodz Ghetto, September 4, 1942 | |
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| The Jager Report | |
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| Testimony of Hermann Graebe, November 10, 1945 | |
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| Excerpts from There Once Was a World by Yaffa Eliach | |
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| German Railway Schedule, January 16, 1943 | |
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| Abraham Kszepicki on Treblinka | |
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| Resistance and Rescue | |
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| Olga Lengyel, Resister in Auschwitz | |
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| From Page 12 of the Nashville Tennessean, June 30, 1942: 1,000,000 Jews Said Killed by Germans | |
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| Bishop of Munster, Clemens August Count von Galen, Protests "Euthanasia" Killings, August 3, 1941 | |
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| Magda Trocme (of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon) in The Courage to Care | |
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| Representations of the Holocaust in the Arts | |
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| Language and the Holocaust | |
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| A Comparison of Names | |
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| Literature and the Holocaust | |
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| Prose | |
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| Discussion of Elie Wiesel's Night | |
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| Discussion of Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale | |
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| Discussion of Tadeusz Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen | |
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| Discussion of Ida Fink's "The Shelter" | |
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| Poetry | |
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| The Butterfly by Pavel Friedmann | |
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| For My Child by Abraham Sutzkever | |
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| Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car by Dan Pagis | |
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| You Onlookers by Nelly Sachs | |
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| Monuments and Memorials | |
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| Warsaw Ghetto Monument | |
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| Treblinka | |
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| Photographs | |
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| Selection of Hungarian Jews for Extermination | |
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| Tower of Faces, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. | |
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| General Dwight Eisenhower and Other Officers Examine Corpses at Ohrdruf, April 12, 1945 | |
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| Film | |
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| Discussion of Au revoir les enfants (Good-bye Children) | |
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| Discussion of Night and Fog (Nuit et brouilliard) | |
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| Other Genocides | |
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| The Armenian Genocide | |
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| The Armenians in the Ottomen Empire | |
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| The Armenians Under the Young Turks | |
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| Genocide | |
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| Perpetrators, Bystanders, Rescuers | |
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| International Response | |
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| Pan-Turkism: Excerpt from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau | |
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| The Deportations: Excerpt from the Report of Lieutenant Sayied Ahmed Moukhtar Baas, December 26, 1916 | |
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| Talaat: Excerpt from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau | |
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| An Ambiguous Rescue Story: Excerpt from the Testimony of Aram Kilichjian | |
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| Report to the German Government: Letter from Ambassador Wolff-Metternich to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, July 10, 1916 | |
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| Germany's Interests: Meeting of the Imperial Budget Committee, September 29, 1916, Notes of the State Secretary | |
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| Starting Over? Excerpt from Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past by Peter Balakian | |
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| Bosnia and Kosovo | |
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| Background | |
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| Peter Maass in Conversation with a Serbian Woman | |
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| Chronology of "Ethnic Cleansing" | |
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| Images of War by Children of Former Yugoslavia | |
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| The Mind of the Perpetrators | |
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| Days in the Life of Bosnian Inmates, 1992 | |
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| Rwanda | |
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| Tutsis and Hutus | |
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| Ideology and Propaganda | |
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| The Killing Begins | |
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| Perpetrators, Bystanders, Rescuers | |
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| International Response | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| Excerpt from Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda by Alison Des Forges | |
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| The Hutu Ten Commandments, 1990 | |
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| The Interahamwe: Excerpt from an Interview with Gloriose Mukakanimba, May 21, 1994 | |
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| The Corruption of Language: Common Euphemisms of the Holocaust and the Genocide in Rwanda | |
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| Initial Response of the U.S. Government: Excerpt from a PBS Frontline Interview with Tony Marley, a Former Official of the U.S. State Department | |
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| Excerpt from President Bill Clinton's Address to the People of Rwanda, March 25, 1998 | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Ethical Questioning | |
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| Is Prejudice a Prelude to Annihilation? | |
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| Is Genocide More Than Mass Murder? | |
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| What is a Choiceless Choice and the Extent of Moral Blame? | |
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| How Does Good Happen? | |
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| What Are the Limits of Forgiveness and Reconciliation? | |
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| How Have Christians Responded to the Holocaust? | |
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| What is the Relationship Between Ethics and Remembrance? | |
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| Index | |