ABSTRACT

Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath presents 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 along with key texts on testimony, memory, and justice after the catastrophe.

chapter |18 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

PART I Origins: antisemitism and scientific racism

chapter 1|22 pages

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWS

Precedents

chapter 3|14 pages

STEP BY STEP

The expansion of murder, 1939–1941

part |2 pages

PART II Implementation: beyond intentionalism and functionalism

chapter 7|23 pages

GERMAN SOLDIERS AND THE HOLOCAUST

Historiography, research and implications

chapter 8|19 pages

“ONCE AGAIN I’VE GOT TO PLAY GENERAL TO THE JEWS”

From the war diary of Blutordensträger Felix Landau

chapter 9|15 pages

PLACES FAR AWAY, PLACES VERY NEAR

Mauthausen, the camps of the Shoah, and the bystanders

chapter 10|14 pages

UNDER A CRUEL STAR

A life in Prague 1941–1968

part |2 pages

PART III Aftermath: testimony, justice, and denial

chapter 11|16 pages

REDEFINING HEROIC BEHAVIOR

The impromptu self and the Holocaust experience

chapter 12|22 pages

THE GRAY ZONE

chapter 13|19 pages

REMEMBERING IN VAIN

The Klaus Barbie trial and crimes against humanity