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Title The Holocaust : a reader / edited by Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang
Published Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishing, [2005]
©2005

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Description xxii, 462 pages : map. ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction / Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang -- Pt. I Preconditions : Nazism and the turn from anti-Judaism to antisemitism -- 1 Anti-Semites / Bernard Lewis -- 2 From Weimar to Hitler / Robert S. Wistrich -- 3 Nation and race / Adolf Hitler -- 4 Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935 -- Pt. II A racial Europe : Nazi population and resettlement policy -- 5 The setting / Henry Friedlander -- 6 Ghetto formation / Raul Hilberg -- 7 From "ethnic cleansing" to genocide to the "final solution" : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, 1939-1941 / Christopher R. Browning -- 8 Some thoughts on the treatment of the alien population in the east / Heinrich Himmler -- Pt. III War and the turn to genocide -- 9 The "Commissar Decree," June 6, 1941 -- 10 Affidavit of SS Gruppenfuhrer Otto Ohlendorf -- 11 Operation Barbarossa as a war of conquest and annihilation / Jurgen Forster -- 12 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 / Peter Longerich -- 13 Savage war : German warfare and moral choices in World War II / Omer Bartov -- Pt. IV Whose "final solution"? : revisiting intentionalism and functionalism -- 14 Hitler's Reichstag speech, January 30, 1939 / Adolf Hitler -- 15 Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942 -- 16 Intentions and the "final solution" / Berel Lang -- 17 A controversy about the historicization of national socialism / Martin Broszat and Saul Friedlander -- 18 Justice Jackson's report to the President on atrocities and war crimes, June 7, 1945 / Robert H. Jackson -- Pt. V Response and testimony : at the center of the whirlwind -- 19 Inside the ghetto / Emmanuel Ringelblum -- 20 Notebook H / Oskar Rosenfeld -- 21 The second winter : October 29, 1942-March 18, 1943 / Herman Kruk -- 22 Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum -- Pt. VI Genocide and the holocaust -- 23 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948 -- 24 Defining genocide as a sociological concept / Helen Fein -- 25 Is the Holocaust simply another example of genocide? / Mark Levene -- 26 Conceptual blockages and definitional dilemmas in the "racial century" : genocides of indigenous peoples and the Holocaust / A. Dirk Moses
Summary "The Holocaust: A Reader is an innovative interdisciplinary resource. Combining primary and secondary sources with editorial narrative, it enables scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation, and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust." "The Reader is divided into six chronological sections and contains thematic subsections, each of which can be used by instructors as the basis for oral or written exercises. Oral histories and the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators - from Jewish council leaders, to ghetto and concentration camp victims, to SS officials and German soldiers - are integrated throughout, allowing scholars and students to see how underlying historical attitudes and policies evolved. Secondary sources are selected from the best recent literature on the Holocaust across a range of disciplines. Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Simone Gigliotti is lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Author Gigliotti, Simone.
Lang, Berel.
LC no. 2004012936
ISBN 1405113995 (hbk.)
1405114002 (paperback)