1st Edition

The Holocaust Critical Concepts in Historical Studies

Edited By David Cesarani
    2680 Pages
    by Routledge

    Since the end of the 1980s the field of Holocaust studies has burgeoned, diversified, and experienced a series of important controversies. Drawing on the best research of the past sixty years, this collection brings together the most significant secondary literature on the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews. Care is taken to set the work in a context of historical breadth and depth.

    Volume I: Hitler, Nazism, and the Racial State
    Part One: Anti-semitism and racism in German society
    Part Two: Hitler, Nazism and the racial state
    Part Three: Anti-Jewish policy and German Jewish responses

    Volume II: From the Persecution of the Jews to Mass Murder
    Part One: The despoliation and destruction of German and Austrian Jewry
    Part Two: The Nazi assault on the Jews of Poland

    Part Three: Local initiatives, ethnic cleansing, and regional genocides
    Volume III: The Final Solution

    Part One: Central decisions for a European-wide genocide against the Jews
    Part Two: Implementing Genocide: Individuals and Agencies
    Part Three: Killing Fields, Death Camps
    Part Four: The Profits of Genocide: Plunder and Exploitation
    Part Five: Allies and Collaborators in Genocide

    Volume IV: Jewish Confrontations with Persecution and Mass Murder
    Part One: Jewish reactions to Nazi terror: flight, accommodation, defiance
    Part Two: Jewish women, children, and the family in the face of genocide
    Part Three: The response of Jews in the free world
    Volume V: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews

    Part One: Responses inside Nazi-dominated Europe
    Part Two: The responses of the Allied powers
    Part Three: The responses of neutral and non-belligerent countries
    Volume VI: The End of the Final Solution and its Aftermaths
    Part One: The final frenzy, liquidation of the camps, and the death marches
    Part Two: Retribution
    Part Three: The treatment of the survivors

    Part Four: Interpretation, historiography, controversy