The Historiography of the Holocaust

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust Studies, this collection will be of enormous benefit to students and scholars alike. A moving, deeply researched account of survivors'experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed When tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the horror of the atrocities came fully to light. It was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners, yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors—their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors'immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-8 German or Nazi Antisemitism?....Pages 9-23 Hitler and the Third Reich....Pages 24-51 Expropriation and Expulsion....Pages 52-64 Ghettoization....Pages 65-87 War, Occupation and the Holocaust in Poland....Pages 88-119 Local Collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe....Pages 120-140 Big Business and the Third Reich: An Appraisal of the Historical Arguments....Pages 141-172 The Decision-Making Process....Pages 173-196 Historiography and the Perpetrators of the Holocaust....Pages 197-215 The Topography of Genocide....Pages 216-252 Britain, the United States and the Holocaust: In Search of a Historiography....Pages 253-275 The Holocaust and the Soviet Union....Pages 276-295 The German Churches and the Holocaust....Pages 296-318 Jewish Resistance....Pages 319-340 Gender and the Family....Pages 341-363 Romanies and the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation and Overview....Pages 364-382 From Streicher to Sawoniuk: the Holocaust in the Courtroom....Pages 383-396 The Holocaust under Communism....Pages 397-419 Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in Post-Communist Eastern Europe....Pages 420-439 Post-Holocaust Philosophy....Pages 440-468 Testimony and Representation....Pages 469-486 Memory, Memorials and Museums....Pages 487-507 The Holocaust and Genocide....Pages 508-532 Back Matter....Pages 533-555 ....Pages 556-573 The explosion of interest in the Holocaust in the last decade means that it is no longer possible for any one individual to master the enormous literature on this subject. This new collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields, including Jeremy Noakes, Tony Kushner, Martin Dean and Christopher Browning, provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes - such as the role of Hitler in the decision for the 'Final Solution' - as well as research questions and methodologies that have emerged recently - such as topography, gender, 'Aryanization', collaboration and memory - this collection will be of enormous benefit to students and scholars alike. All the essays are previously unpublished and offer the most cutting-edge assessments of the growing discipline of Holocaust Studies This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides a comprehensive survey of Holocaust historiography. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed during the massive growth in Holocaust studies, this collection should be of benefit to students and scholars alike This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides a comprehensive survey of Holocaust historiography, and covers both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed during the massive growth in Holocaust studies