Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50 (The Holocaust and its Contexts)

"Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and the Jewish immigration to Palestine."-- Provided by publisher Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 12 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 14 1.1 Responding to the Holocaust: Historiography......Page 16 1.2 Framing the Holocaust: Methodologies......Page 21 1.3 Why Great Britain, Finland and Sweden?......Page 24 1.4 Sources: Selected newspapers......Page 28 1.5 Reporting the Holocaust: An overview......Page 30 Part I: The First Responses to the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Concentration Camps......Page 34 2.1 Introduction......Page 36 2.2 The context of the liberation of the camps in the British press......Page 39 2.3 The questions of German guilt and the knowledge of the camps......Page 43 2.4 The victims of Nazism in the British press discourse......Page 45 2.5 The British press and the suffering of the Jews......Page 48 2.6 Conclusion......Page 50 3.1 Introduction......Page 51 3.2 The liberation of the camps and initial reactions in the Swedish press......Page 52 3.3 The Swedish response: Hearing is believing......Page 56 3.4 Nordic victims of the Holocaust and nationalistic discourse......Page 61 3.5 The questions of German guilt in the Swedish press......Page 64 3.6 Conclusion......Page 69 4.1 Introduction......Page 71 4.2 The context of Finnish response to the liberation of the camps......Page 72 4.3 The Finnish press grapples with the liberation news......Page 76 4.4 Beleaguered Germans in the Finnish press discourse......Page 79 4.5 The real victims and the Finnish press......Page 85 4.6 Conclusion......Page 87 Part II: The Nuremberg Trial 1945–6 and the Holocaust through Press Discourses in Britain, Sweden and Finland......Page 88 5.1 Introduction......Page 90 5.2 The meaning of the trial and the press's understanding of it......Page 92 5.3 Jewish suffering and the British press......Page 96 5.4 The questions of German guilt and re-education......Page 101 5.5 Conclusion......Page 103 6.1 Introduction......Page 104 6.2 Individual guilt in the Swedish press discourse......Page 105 6.3 Ongoing questions of German collective guilt in the Swedish press......Page 110 6.4 The trial, the press and the Jews......Page 116 6.5 Conclusion......Page 120 7.1 Introduction......Page 122 7.2 The Finnish 'War-guilt trial', Nuremberg and nationalistic discourse......Page 123 7.3 Nuremberg, the Finnish press and the extermination of the Jews......Page 126 7.4 The conceptualisation of the Nazi Genocide: The judgment......Page 131 7.5 Conclusion......Page 135 Part III: From Suffering to Silence: The Press and Holocaust Discourses, 1946–50......Page 138 8.1 Introduction......Page 140 8.2 The Harrison Report and the Jewish DPs in Europe......Page 143 8.3 From the Displaced Persons camps to Exodus......Page 147 8.4 The saga of Exodus 1947 and Holocaust survivors in the British, Swedish and Finnish press......Page 154 8.5 Conclusion......Page 162 9.1 Introduction......Page 164 9.2 From the Partition Plan to the end of the British Mandate in Palestine, 1948......Page 165 9.3 The 1948 War, its legacy and the shadows of the Holocaust......Page 173 9.4 The assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte......Page 175 9.5 Conclusion......Page 185 10.1 Introduction......Page 187 10.2 The Cold War metanarrative in the press......Page 189 10.3 Discussing genocide and the Cold War, 1948......Page 196 10.4 Forgetting to remember, the war and the Holocaust......Page 200 10.5 Conclusion......Page 205 Conclusions......Page 207 Appendix A: Selected newspapers, their circulation and political views......Page 217 Appendix B: Timeframe within which different papers were examined......Page 219 Appendix C: Surveyed articles and editorials......Page 220 Appendix D: Distribution of editorials per year......Page 221 Appendix E: Distribution of editorials per topic......Page 222 Appendix F: List of editorial articles......Page 223 Notes......Page 230 Bibliography......Page 264 Index......Page 283 Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction PART I: THE FIRST RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST: THE LIBERATION OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS The British Press Responds to the Liberation of the Concentration Camps The Swedish Press and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps The Finnish Press and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps PART II: THE NUREMBERG TRIAL 1945-46 AND THE HOLOCAUST THROUGH PRESS DISCOURSES IN BRITAIN, SWEDEN AND FINLAND Responding to the Nazi Crimes: The British Press and the Nuremberg Trial Victors, Vanquished and Neutrals: The Swedish Press and the Nuremberg Trial The Nuremberg Trial in the Finnish Press Discourse PART III: FROM SUFFERING TO SILENCE: THE PRESS AND HOLOCAUST DISCOURSES, 1946-1950 The Problem of Displaced Jews and the Holocaust The Holocaust, the Founding of Israel and the Arab-Israeli War in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press Forgetting to Remember. The Press Discourse, the Cold War and Conjunctures of Remembrance Conclusions Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.