Overview

For undergraduate courses on the Holocaust and Hitler and Nazi Germany.   Told with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, this text examines the causes and events of the Holocaust, providing important background information on Jewish life in Europe, the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice.   Unlike other texts on the subject, A History of the Holocaust  tries to give students an idea of just who the victims of the Holocaust were. In fact, the author tells this story from a unique point-of-view, having experienced Nazi Germany as a child.   This book seeks to explain the sequence of events that led up to what we now refer to as the Holocaust or Shoah. This new edition reflects the latest scholarship, contains an updated bibliography, and introduces a powerful new feature: Voices—-the testimonies of five individuals who shared their experiences of the Holocaust with author Rita Steinhardt Botwinick.

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Author:   Rita Steinhardt Botwinick
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9780205654147

ISBN 10:   0205654142
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   21 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9780205846894
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Chapter 1 The Nature and Roots of Prejudice Some Dynamics of Prejudice Personality and Prejudice The Costs Origins of Anti-Semitism Christianity and the Jews The New Faith Established The Medieval Church and the Jews Early Ghettos The Reformation The Era of Enlightenment The French Revolution The Age of Reaction Industrialization Twentieth Century The New Anti-Semitism Anti-Jewish Racism Chapter 2 The World That Was Annihilated The Victims Brief History of Polish Jewry Polish Jewry Shtetl Life Cultural Achievements Kabbalah Rational Orthodoxy The Hasidic Challenge Haskalah Roots of Zionism The Rebirth of Poland The Interwar Decades Chapter 3 The Nazis' Rise to Power The Totalitarian Prerequisite The Treaty of Versailles The Weimar Republic Economic Problems Momentary Recovery The Great Depression The Nazi's Enter History The Party Platform The SA The Failed Beer Hall Putsch The Aryan Superiority Myth Legitimizing Hitler The End of the Republic Chapter 4 Masters of the Third Reich Ideological Antecedents The Irrationality of the Holocaust Intellectual Roots Psychological Hypotheses Hitler: A Man of Paradoxes The Parents A Psychosexual View An Uncertain Conclusion Three Executioners of the Fuehrer's Will Hermann Goering Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmer Chapter 5 Germans under the Nazis Destruction of the Republic The Last Election The Reichstag Fire The Enabling Act Political Centralization The Party and the Government Governing the Reich Party Organization The Blood Purge Workers Economic Policy Farmers Business Interest Public Education Training the Nazi of the Future The Catholic Church Hitler and the Papacy Hitler and the Protestant Churches Nazi Justice Chapter 6 German Jews to 1939 Emancipation Can Jews Be Germans Economic Anti-Semitism Political Anti-Semitism Jewish Reaction: The Reform Movement Is Zionism the Answer? The CV Reaction World War I The Weimar Years Jewish Responses to the Nazi Danger Organizing for Survival The Holocaust: Master Plan or Expediency? Who Is a Jew? Early Legal Disqualifications The Nuremberg Laws Juden Raus (Jews Get Out) Kristallnacht VOICES: Papa's Slippers and Crystal Night The Aftermath Chapter 7 Hitler's War Lebensraum The European Climate Early Nazi Diplomacy Inertia in France and Great Britain Bloodless Victories Austria-Fiasco and Victory The Sudeten Germans Appeasement at Munich The Czech Finale The Startling Hitler-Stalin Pact The War at a Glance The Defeat of Poland Himmler's Vision of Poland The War in the West Governing the Conquered Nations VOICES: Excerpts from Windmills, War, and Water Great Britain Alone The Balkans and Operation Barbarossa The Turning Point of the Tide Chapter 8 From Ideology to Isolation An Overview Types and Aims of Concentration Camps Himmler's Empire SS Membership and Training Organizing the Shoah The Deportations Ghettos Life in the Ghettos Functions of the Judenraete The Lodz Ghetto: A Case in Point The Warsaw Ghetto: Another Case in Point Chapter 9 Annihilation: Theory and Practice Mobile Killing Squads Bolts from the Blue Methods of Murder The Killers The Wannsee Decision Some German Reactions The Gas Van Experiment Factories of Death Gas Chambers The Many Forms of Deception Sonderkommandos Auschwitz's Organization Cheaper Than Slaves VOICES: Jolie's Soup Hunger The Hungarian Tragedy Surviving a Concentration Camp The Doctors Camps in Central Europe Theresienstadt and Ravensbrueck The Death Marches Chapter 10 Resistance against All Odds VOICES: My Mother and the Rosenstrasse Protest Militant Jews The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt Results and Significance Other Camp Revolts: An Overview With the Partisans Chapter 11 Rescue: Too Little, Too Late VOICES: My Parents-My Heroes Ordinary People Questions of Opportunities The Final Solution Revealed Diverse Conditions for Rescue Delay and Obstruction in the United States American Jewry Survival in Bulgaria The Danes Mobilize for Rescue The Plot The Escape Accounting for the Danish Achievement Chapter 12 After the Deluge Postwar Germany Zones of Occupation Survivors in Limbo No Place to Go Seeking Refuge: The United States Seeking a Refuge: Palestine Justice for the Murderers? The Nuremberg Trials: 1945-1946 The Verdicts Further Trials The Western Military Zones Germany and the Jews Today Glossary and Abbreviations Time Line Bibliography and Selected Readings Selected Websites Index Maps: Europeunder Nazi Occupation before June 22, 1941. Germany's Expansion: 1933-1939. Military Operations of WWII: The German Offensives, 1939-1942. The Einsatzgruppen, 1941-1942. The German Partition of Poland, 1939/41-1945.

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