xv, 836 p; 25 cm; "Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC"; Includes bibliographical references and index; Sources and their uses / Raul Hilberg -- A past that will not go away / Yehuda Bauer -- The Holocaust: where we are, where we need to go / Eberhard Jäckel -- The Holocaust: where we are, where we need to go: a comment / Michael R Marrus -- The use of antisemitism in Nazi wartime propaganda / David Bankier -- The Holocaust: a very particular racism / Steven T Katz -- Antisemitism and racism in Nazi ideology / Walter Zwi Bacharach -- Antisemitism, the Holocust and reinterpretations of National Socialism / Omer Bartov -- Human genetics and the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, and others / Benno Müller-Hill -- From colonial racism to Nazi population policy: the role of the so-called Mischlinge / Annegret Ehmann --; The cooperation of German racial hygienists and American eugenicists before and after 1933 / Stefan Kühl -- Executive instinct: Reinhard Heydrich and the planning for the final solution / Charles W Sydnor -- Plans for the final solution in early 1941 / Richard Breitman -- State policy and corporate involvement in the Holocaust / Peter Hayes -- The civil service and the implementation of the Holocaust: from passive to active complicity / Hans Mommsen -- The other crimes of Adolf Hitler / Franklin H Littell -- The T4 killers: Berlin, Lublin, San Sabba / Henry Friedlander -- Ordinary Germans or ordinary men: a reply to the critics / Christopher R Browning -- Complicity or entanglement: Wehrmach, war, and Holocaust / Jürgen Förster --; The Amsterdam police and the persecution of the Jews / Guus Meershoek -- Ordinary men or ordinary Germans / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen -- Neglected Holocaust victims: the Mischlinge, the Jüdischversippte, and the Gypsies / John AS Grenville -- "Slapping up spastics" / Hugh Gregory Gallagher -- Final solution of the homosexual question: the antihomosexual policies of the Nazis and the social consequences for homosexual men / Günter Grau -- The pink triangle: homosexuals as "enemies of the state" / Rüdiger Lautmann -- The black experience during the Holocaust / Robert Kesting -- Auschwitz concentration camp: how it was used in the Nazi system of terror and genocide and in the economy of the Third Reich / Franciszek Piper --; Antechamber to Birkenau: the Zigeunerlager after 1933 / Sybil Milton -- Concentration camps and the non-Jewish environment / Edith Raim -- Places far away, places very near: Mauthausen, the camps of the Shoah, and the bystanders / Gordon J Horwitz -- The Holocaust in Hungary: a retrospective analysis / Randolph L Braham -- The Holocaust in Italy: areas of inquiry / Meir Michaelis -- Antonescu and the Jews / Jean Ancel -- The Allies and the Holocaust / Gerhard L Weinberg -- Surviving the Holocaust: the situation in France / Susan S Zuccotti -- British responses to the plight of Jews in Europe, 1933-1945 / Louise London -- Bureaucracy, resistance, and the Holocaust: understanding the success of Swedish diplomacy in Budapest, 1944-1945 / Paul A Levine -- A lucky few: refugees in Turkey / Mark A Epstein --; The Catholic response to the Holocaust: institutional perspectives / John T Pawlikowski -- The ecclesiastical final solution: the German Christian movement and the anti-Jewish church / Doris L Bergen -- The armed Jewish resistance in Eastern Europe: its unique conditions and its relations with the Jewish councils (Judenräte) in the ghettos / Yitzhak Arad -- Remembering and invoking 1789 during the Holocaust: the trials and tribulations of French Jews / Richard I Cohen -- The Jewish underground press in France and the struggle to expose the Nazi secret of the final solution / Adam Rayski -- Czech and Slovak wartime Jewish leadership: variants in strategy and tactics / Livia Rothkirchen -- Reflections on rescuers / Nechama Tec -- The rescuer self / Eva Fogelman --; Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust: a portrait of moral courage / Samuel P Oliner -- "We're on our way, but we're not in the wilderness" / Jacqueline Giere -- Way station of exodus: Jewish displaced persons and refugees in postwar Austria / Thomas Albrich -- From illegal immigrants to new immigrants: the Cyprus detainees, 1946-1949 / Dalia Ofer -- Against all odds: survivors of the Holocaust and the American experience / William B Helmreich -- Holocaust survivors in past and present / Leo Eitinger -- Israeli society and recent attitudes toward the Jews of Europe and Holocaust survivors / Dina Porat -- History, memory, and truth: defining the place of the survivor / Dori Laub with Marjorie Allard

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C."

Includes bibliographical references and index

This benchmark volume of extraordinary scope, depth, and power presents the results of nearly fifty years of scholarship on the Holocaust by the world's most eminent researchers. Fifty-four chapters probe such topics as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, deportation, and the death camps, etc

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