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Holocaust A Reader

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ISBN-10: 1405114002

ISBN-13: 9781405114004

Edition: 2005

Authors: Simone Gigliotti, Berel Lang, Simone Gigliotti

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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.
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Book details

List price: $60.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 486
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.584

List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Glossary
Introduction: Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang
Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism
Introduction
Anti-Semites:
From Weimar to Hitler:
Nation and Race:
Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935
A Racial Europe: Nazi Population and Resettlement Policy
Introduction
The Setting:
Ghetto Formation:
From "Ethnic Cleansing" to Genocide to the "Final Solution"
Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East:
War and the Turn to Genocide
Introduction
The "Commissar Decree," June 6, 1941
Affidavit of SS Grueppenfuehrer Otto Ohlendorf
Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation:
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:
Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II:
Whose "Final Solution"? Revisted Intentionalism and Functionalism
Introduction
Hitler's Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939
Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942
Intentions and the "Final Solution:" Berel Lang
A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism:
Justice Jackson's Report to the President on Atrocities and War Crimes, June 6, 1945:
Response and Testimony: At the Center of the Whirlwind
Introduction
Inside the Ghetto
Notebook
The Second Winter: October 29, 1942--March 18, 1943:
Letters from Westerbork:
Genocide and the Holocaust
Introduction
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948
Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept:
Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide?
Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the "Racial Century:" Genocides of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust: