The Extermination of the European Jews

ISBN-13: 9780521706896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 515 str.

Christian Gerlach

Opis

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other groups.

Recenzje

'Over the past twenty years, Christian Gerlach has created a body of work on the Nazi Final Solution and on genocide more generally that challenges conventional judgment. The Extermination of the European Jews synthesizes his thinking while integrating the work of other German scholars of his generation who have used similar approaches. Because this research has heavily influenced this field and because most of it is only available in German, this volume is a helpful addition to the scholarship on the Holocaust and on mass killing more generally.' Norman J. W. Goda, Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. Persecution by Germans: 2. Before 1933; 3. From enforced emigration to territorial schemes: 1933–41; 4. From mass murder to comprehensive annihilation: 1941–2; 5. Extending mass destruction: 1942–5; 6. Structures and agents of violence; Part II. Logics of Persecution: 7. Racism and anti-Jewish thought; 8. Forced labor, German violence and Jews; 9. Hunger policies and mass murder; 10. The economics of separation, expropriation, crowding and removal; 11. Fighting resistance and the persecution of Jews; Part III. The European Dimension: 12. Legislation against Jews in Europe: a comparison; 13. Divided societies: popular input to the persecution of Jews; 14. Beyond legislation: non-German policies of violence; 15. In the labyrinths of persecution: survival attempts; 16. Conclusion: group destruction in extremely violent societies; Bibliography; Index.