The Holocaust
Roots, History and Post-history
David Crowe(Author)
Westview Press Inc
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-8133-2914-7 (ISBN)
Description
This study of the Holocaust blends traditional views of the fate of Jews with some of the recent scholarship on this topic, particularly as it relates to the fate of non-Jewish victims such as gypsies, the handicapped, homosexuals and others. The book begins with the historical roots of anti-Semitism going back to Greek and Roman times, and complements this discussion with a history of the Jewish people in each country in Europe. It then looks at the emergence of Austrian and German anti-Semitism, its impact on Adolf Hitler and early Nazis, and the history of European prejudice towards the Holocaust's non-Jewish victims, as well as the evolution of Nazi racial policy as it applied to Jews, gypsies, the handicapped and other groups from 1933 to 1939. The core of the book concentrates on the evolution and implementation of German Nazi and collaborationist policies towards the Jewish people and other minorities throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945. In this context the author discusses in depth the evolution of the concentration-camp and death-camp system, ghettos, the Final Solution, and questions of rescue and resistance.
He ends by considering the plight of Jewish and other survivors after the war, their struggle for reparations, war-crimes trials and investigations, and other post-Holocaust issues.
He ends by considering the plight of Jewish and other survivors after the war, their struggle for reparations, war-crimes trials and investigations, and other post-Holocaust issues.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-2914-7 (9780813329147)
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Content
Part 1 Jewish history: ancient beginnings and the rise of anti-Semitism to 1492 AD; Jewish communities in western Europe from the era of the Protestant Reformation to the early-20th century; Jewish communities in east-central Europe and the Russian Empire to the early-20th century; the plight of minorities (gypsies, the handicapped, homosexuals, Armenians), and traditions of religious-political discrimination in Europe from ancient times to the early-20th century; Adolf Hitler and his anti-Semitism - Austrian-German roots and the Nazi Party to 1933. Part 2 The evolution of racial, eugenic and other discriminatory policies in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939: development of euthanasia (T-4) and ghetto-ization policies, 1939-1941; origins of mass murder - the Einsatzgruppen and the German invasion of the Soviet Union; the Final Solution - major death camps and ghettos of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; the Final Solution in western Europe and the role of Europe's neutrals. Part 3 The Final Solution, the Catholic Church, and Germany's allies: the post-Holocaust world - survivors, reparations, war-crimes trials and Nazi hunters; the Holocaust heritage - memory, anti-Semitism, denial, Bosnia, and co-option.