Popular Western Reactions to Kristallnacht

ISBN-13: 9780415716321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 184 str.

Nathan Wilson; Colin McCullough

Opis

What did people hear about Kristallnacht outside of Germany in 1938 from governments and media sources? How did governments and ordinary people respond to the plight of the Jewish community there? How have lives been affected by Kristallnacht in the 70 years since its occurrence? This interdisciplinary study of erasure and enshrinement seeks to answer these questions, exploring issues of memory and forgetting (in both the material and symbolic sense), and how the meaning of Kristallnacht has been altered by various actors since 1938.

Spis treści

Introduction: Violence, Memory and History  Colin McCullough and Nathan Wilson  1. Anti-Semitism and Racism in Britain: Assessing the Reaction to and Legacy of Kristallnacht.  Jodi Burkett  2. "One Country Alone Says Nothing": French Press Reactions to "La Nuit de Cristal"  Paul Moore  3. "An Accident in the Way of the Franco-German Policy of Appeasement": Kristallnacht in France, 1938  Emmanuel Debono  4. Between "Just Punishment" and "Unthinkable Fascist Crimes": Reactions to Kristallnacht in Civil War Spain  Alejandro Baer  5. Uneven Perceptions: Kristallnacht in the Yiddish and French Language Press of Montréal  Pierre Anctil  6. Hitler’s Assault on Civilization: Anti-Semitism and English Canada’s Response to Kristallnacht.  Norman Erwin  7. "No Repercussions Down Under"? Australian Responses to Kristallnacht.  Kim Richard Nossal  8. The Historiography of Kristallnacht.  Alan E. Steinweis

O autorze

Colin McCullough is a L.R. Wilson Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University. Nathan Wilson is a History Ph.D. candidate at York University. He teaches at OCAD University and Durham College.