Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews

ISBN-13: 9780521838771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 408 str.

Shlomo Aronson

Opis

This book offers an analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, its origins, and its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. With the Holocaust developing like a sort of a doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found themselves between the hammer and various anvils, each of which worked according to the logic created by the Nazis that dictated the behavior of other parties and the relations between them before and during the Holocaust. The interplay between the various parties contributed to the victims' doom first by preventing help and later preventing rescue. These help and rescue efforts proved mainly self defeating, and various legacies about them emerged during the Holocaust and are heatedly debated even today. Their real nature is uncovered here on the basis of newly opened archives worldwide.

Recenzje

'… his passion never leads to bias; Aronson's book is a model of scholarly objectivity, supported by superb research. Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews is likely to become a standard work, to be consulted by anyone interested in Jewish and Allied reactions to the murder of the Jews in Europe.' Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Spis treści

Part I. The Making of the Multiple Trap: 1. The phases 1933–9: the initial and the double trap; 2. Western responses; 3. A flashback on the Palestine question; 4. 1939 till 'Barbarossa' - the foundation of the multiple trap; 5. The 'Final Solution' decision and its initial implementation; 6. The 'Final Solution' in some detail and more on its justification; 7. The Zionists' dilemmas; 8. Dimensions of Allied response to Hitler's 'Jewish Politics' and the deepening of the trap; 9. The war priorities of the Western Allies and rules of economic warfare related to the Holocaust 1941–4; Part II. The Rescue Debate, the Macro Picture, and the Intelligence Services: 10. Missed opportunities; 11. The Intelligence Services and rescue options; 12. The Jewish 'Refugee Traffic': the road to Biltmore and its ramifications; 13. American wartime realities 1942–3; 14. Bermuda, Breckenridge Long, G-2, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine again; 15. Roosevelt, Stimson, and the Palestine question: British inputs; 16. Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence views, Consul-General Pinkerton and Rabbi Nelson Glueck; 17. Various methods of rescue; Part III. The Self-Defeating Mechanism of the Rescue Efforts: 18. Istanbul, Geneva and Jerusalem; 19. How the Holocaust in Slovakia was suspended: the 'Europa Plan'; 20. The significance of the British Decrypts; 21. The 'Small Season': Begin's rebellion; 22. The origins of the Budapest 'Rescue Committee'; 23. The WRB and the extension of the trap: the 'Dogwood' chain; 24. The double Hungarian debacle; Part IV. The Brand-Grosz Missions within the Larger Picture of the War and their Ramifications: 25. The Zionist initiatives; 26. Rescue, allied intelligence and the SS; 27. Hungarian rescue deals in allied eyes; 28. How the missions were born; 29. The demise of a rescue mission; 30. Open and secret war schemes and realities; 31. The WRB's own reports: OWI's reservations; Part V. The End of the Final Solution: Back to Hostage Taking Tactics: 32. The train; 33. The bombing controversy: Albert Speer and Solly Zuckerman; 34. The 'Great Season'; 35. Becher, Mayer and the death marches; 36. The 'End' of the 'Final Solution' - Budapest; Epilogue: Self-traps: the OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg: Malkiel Gruenwald as CID informant.