ABSTRACT

The genocide of Jewish and non-Jewish civilians perpetrated by the German regime during World War Two continues to confront scholars with elusive questions even after nearly seventy years and hundreds of studies. This multi-contributory work is a landmark publication that sees experts renowned in their field addressing these questions in light of current research.

A comprehensive introduction to the history of the Holocaust, this volume has 42 chapters which add important depth to the academic study of the Holocaust, both geographically and topically. The chapters address such diverse issues as:

  • continuities in German and European history with respect to genocide prior to 1939
  • the eugenic roots of Nazi anti-Semitism
  • the response of Europe's Jewish Communities to persecution and destruction
  • the Final Solution as the German occupation instituted it across Europe
  • rescue and rescuer motivations the problem of prosecuting war crimes
  • gender and Holocaust experience
  • the persecution of non-Jewish victims
  • the Holocaust in postwar cultural venues.

This important collection will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Holocaust.

part |107 pages

The Nazi Takeover and Persecution in Hitler's Reich to 1939

chapter |14 pages

Eugenics, Race Hygiene, and the Holocaust

Antecedents and consolidations 1

chapter |13 pages

Persecution and Gender

German-Jewish responses to Nazism, 1933–39

part |90 pages

Germany's Racial war in Poland and the Soviet Union, 1939–41

part |100 pages

The Final Solution In Europe

chapter |5 pages

Levels of Accounting In Accounting for Genocide

A cross-national study of Jewish victimization during the Holocaust

chapter |16 pages

Norway's Role in the Holocaust

The destruction of Norway's Jews

chapter |13 pages

The Final Solution in Southeastern Europe

Between Nazi catalysts and local motivations

chapter |14 pages

Transnistria

The Holocaust in Romania

chapter |12 pages

Nation-Building and Mass Violence

The Independent State of Croatia, 1941–45

part |120 pages

The Responses from Victims, Bystanders, and Rescuers

chapter |11 pages

The Rescuers

When the ordinary is extraordinary

chapter |11 pages

“But I Forsook not thy Precepts” (PS.119:87)

Spiritual resistance to the Holocaust

chapter |17 pages

Model Denomination or Totalitarian Sect?

Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany

chapter |15 pages

Double Jeopardy

Being Jewish and female in the Holocaust

part |88 pages

The Holocaust in Law, Culture, and Memory