Nazi Europe and the Final Solution
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
572 pages
978-1-84545-410-4 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years scholars and researchers have turned their attention to the attitudes of ordinary men [and women]A" during the period of the persecution of the Jews in occupied Europe. This comprehensive work addresses the disturbing question of how people reacted when their neighbours were ostracized, humiliated, deported and later murdered. On the basis of new archival material the authors also discuss the attitudes and actions--or lack of actions--of those who had an official status, or were active in the underground. The studies present the varying and complex situations that pertained in Europe reaching from states allied to Nazi Germany, such as Slovakia and Romania, to countries like France with a relatively autonomous population; also included are countries like Ukraine and Lithuania, whose nationalist movements viewed the Third Reich as the major factor that would aid them in achieving independence.
Reviews / Votes
The volume offers a broad overview of the 'bystander' research in recent years, which has identified as the most common behaviour rescue, apathy, indifference, passive complicity, or collaboration, all defying exact quantification. However, what all societies have in common is the notion of Jews as a group apart, reinforced substantially through occupation and propaganda ... As a stocktaking exercise and starting point for a many more investigations this volume will be of lasting significance." * Dieter Pohl, Institut fur Zeitgeschichte, MunchenMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
8 ills
ISBN-13
978-1-84545-410-4 (9781845454104)
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David Bankier is the Incumbent of the Jonah Machower Chair of Holocaust Studies at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also serves as the John Najmann Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem. He recently edited The Jews Are Coming back. The return of the Jews to their countries of origin after WWII (Yad Vashem and Berghahn Books, New York- Oxford, 2005), and Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust (Yad Vashem and Enigma Books, New York, 2005). Israel Gutman is Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem. He currently serves as Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem. His latest publications include the co-edition of The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (Poland, 2004); (Belgium, 2005); (Italy, 2006) and The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim, 2002).