Holocaust Origins, Implementation, Aftermath

Name: Holocaust Origins, Implementation, Aftermath
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ISBN: 9780415150361

ISBN-10: 0415150361

ISBN-13: 9780415150361

Edition: 1999

Authors: Omer Bartov

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The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermathoffers a critical and important study of the Holocaust. Complete with an introduction that summarizes the state of the field, this book contains major reinterpretations by leading Holocaust authors (including Levi, Burleigh and Goldhagen, among others) along with key texts on testimony, memory and justice after the catastrophe. The book challenges conventional interpretations and truths of the Holocaust, whether it has to do with the centrality of anti-Semitism, the importance of economic calculations or the timing of the decision on the "Final Solution." Three powerful texts provide readers with a close look at the psychology of a…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




Origins: Antisemitism and Scientific Racism



The destruction of European Jews: precedents




Psychiatry, German society and the Nazi 'Euthanasia' programme




Step by step: the expansion of murder, 1939-1941




Implementation: beyond intentionalism and functionalism



The extermination of the European Jews in historiography: fifty years later




The planning intelligentsia and the 'Final Solution'




The Wannsee Conference, the fate of German Jews, and Hitler's decision in principle to exterminate all European Jews




German soldiers and the Holocaust: historiography, research and implications




'Once again I've got to play general to the Jews': from the war diary of Blutordenstrager




Places far away, places very near: Mauthausen, the camps of the Shoah, and the bystanders




Under a cruel star: a life in Prague, 1941-1968




Aftermath: testimony, justice, and denial



Redefining heroic behaviour: the impromptu self and the Holocaust experience




The gray zone




Remembering in vain: the Klaus Barbie Trial and crimes against humanity