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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459662703321

Titolo

How was it possible? : a Holocaust reader / / edited by Peter Hayes ; foreword by Harvey Schulweis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8032-7489-0

0-8032-7491-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2503 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes

Antisemitism - Germany - History - 20th century

Jews - Germany - History - 20th century

Jews - Persecutions - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany History 1933-1945

Germany Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Editorial Note""; ""Chapter 1. The Context""; ""Introduction""; ""Antisemitism""; ""Racism""; ""Contradictions in Central Europe""; ""Germany's Turmoil, 1918-1933""; ""The Interwar Jewish Heartland""; ""Chapter 2. Nazism in Power""; ""Introduction""; ""Elite Cooperation""; ""Street-Level Coercion""; ""The Claims of Community""; ""Aryanization""; ""Talk of Annihilation""; ""Chapter 3. Impediments to Escape""; ""Introduction""

""The United States and Refugees, 1933-1940""""France: From Hospitality to Hostility""; ""The Unreceptive British Empire""; ""Switzerland""; ""Palestine""; ""Going and Staying""; ""Chapter 4. The New Order in Europe""; ""Introduction""; ""Culling the German Volk""; ""Rearranging Populations""; ""Racial War in the East""; ""Plunder,



Individual and Governmental""; ""Forced Labor""; ""Chapter 5. Jews in the Nazi Grip""; ""Introduction""; ""Indirect Rule""; ""Isolation and Impoverishment""; ""Choiceless Choices""; ""Leaving a Record""; ""Nothing to Lose""; ""Women Slave Laborers""

""Robbery in the Netherlands""""Chapter 6. The German Killers and Their Methods""; ""Introduction""; ""Deciding to Kill""; ""Bringing Death to Jews""; ""Bringing Jews to Death""; ""Political Soldiers""; ""The Fates of Gypsies""; ""Camp Labor""; ""The Final Frenzy""; ""Chapter 7. Collaboration and Its Limits""; ""Introduction""; ""Poland: The Blue Police""; ""Romania: Annihilation Aborted""; ""Vichy France: Our Jews and the Rest""; ""The Italian Paradox""; ""The Hungarian Paroxysm""; ""Papal Priorities""; ""Self-Serving Switzerland""; ""Chapter 8. Rescuing Jews Means and Obstacles""

""Introduction""""The Kovno Connection""; ""The Good German of Vilna""; ""Collective Action in Vivarais-Lignon""; ""The Hidden Jews of Warsaw""; ""Saving Jewish Children in Belgium""; ""American Inhibitions""; ""Sweden Expands Asylum""; ""Chapter 9. Aftermath""; ""Introduction""; ""Survivors""; ""Zion's Ambivalence""; ""America's Incomprehension""; ""The Great Reversal""; ""The Pathology of Denial""; ""Restitution and Its Discontents""; ""After Such Knowledge""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Source Acknowledgments""; ""Index""; ""About Peter Hayes""; ""About Harvey Schulweis""

Sommario/riassunto

As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students with a comprehensive resource about the Nazi persecution of Jews. Deliberately resisting the reflexive urge to dismiss the topic as too horrible to be understood intellectually or emotionally, the anthology sets out to provide answers to questions that may otherwise defy comprehension.