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History of the Holocust, A: From Ideology to Annihilation

by: Botwinick, Rita S.

History of the Holocust, A: From Ideology to Annihilation

by: Botwinick, Rita S.

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9780130112859
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0130112852
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Copyright: 06/01/2000
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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For undergraduate courses in The History of the Holocaust, and Hitler and Nazi Germany. This text examines the causes and events of the Holocaust. Different from the lengthy monographs and scholarly volumes that currently exist, it is designedin both coverage and strategyto meet the needs of today's college student.

Preface

Dear Student

xvii

Introduction

(4)

The Nature of Prejudice and the Historic Roots of Anti-Semitism

(24)

Some Dynamics of Prejudice

(1)

Personality and Prejudice

(1)

Economics and Intolerance

(1)

Racism

(1)

The Costs

(1)

Defensive Techniques of Survival under Slavery

(1)

Origins of Anti-Semitism

(1)

Christianity and the Jews

(1)

Jewish Roots of Christianity

(1)

Legacy of the Crucifixion

(1)

The New Faith Established

(1)

The Early Church

(1)

Medieval Christianity and the Jews

(1)

Persecutions Continue

(1)

Prohibitions and Proscriptions

(1)

Early Ghettos

(1)

The Reformation

(1)

Luther and the Jews

(1)

The Era of Enlightenment

(1)

The French Revolution

(1)

The Age of Reaction

(1)

Industrialization

(1)

Twentieth Century

(2)

The New Anti-Semitism

(1)

Anti-Jewish Racism

(3)

The World That Was Annihilated

(19)

The Victims

(1)

Map 2--1

(1)

Brief History of Polish Jewry

(1)

Autonomy of Jewish Life

(1)

The End to Peaceful Coexistence

(1)

Shtetl Life

(1)

Cultural Achievements

(1)

Kabbalah

(1)

Rational Orthodoxy and the Gaon of Vilna

(2)

The Hasidic Challenge

(1)

The Theory and Practice of Haskala

(1)

The Impact of Zionism

(3)

The Rebirth of Poland

(2)

The Interwar Decades

(2)

Nazi Rise to Power

(20)

The Totalitarian Prerequisite

(1)

The Treaty of Versailles

(1)

Organization of the Weimar Republic

(1)

The Political Spectrum

(1)

Danger from the Left

(1)

Danger from the Right

(1)

The Struggling Center

(1)

Economic Problems of the Weimar Republic

(1)

The Wild Inflation

(1)

Momentary Recovery

(1)

The Great Depression

(1)

Continuing Political Crisis

(1)

The Art of Defeat

(1)

The Nazis Enter History

(1)

The Nazi Victory

(1)

The Party Platform

(1)

The SA

(1)

The Failed Beer Hall Putsch

(2)

The Aryan Superiority Myth

(1)

Authors of the Aryan Theory

(1)

Legitimizing Hitler

(1)

The End of the Republic

(2)

Careers Built on Hate: Hitler and His Instruments

(24)

Hitler and the Jews

(2)

Who Benefited from the Holocaust?

(1)

Economic Motivation

(1)

Political Motivation

(1)

Cultural Motivation

(1)

The Case for a Psychological Explanation

(1)

A Man of Paradoxes

(1)

The Father

(1)

The Mother

(1)

A Psychosexual View

(1)

Possible Diagnoses?

(1)

Self-Hatred Turned Outward?

(1)

The Executioners

(1)

Hermann Goering: Rise to Power

(4)

The Career of Joseph Goebbels

(5)

Heinrich Himmler

(3)

Closing the Chapter

(2)

Germany under the Nazis

(21)

Third Reich Politics: Destroying the Republic

(1)

The Last Election

(1)

The Reichstage Fire

(1)

Election, Nazi Style

(1)

The Enabling Act

(1)

Dictatorship

(1)

The Leadership Principle

(1)

The Blood Purge

(1)

The Party and the Civil Service

(2)

Third Reich Economics: Financial Manipulations

100

(1)

Farmers

101

(1)

Workers

102

(1)

Business Interests

102

(1)

Third Reich Culture: Education

103

(1)

Changes in the Public Schools

104

(1)

Creating the Perfect Nazi

105

(1)

Schooling the Leaders of the Future

106

(1)

The Christian Churches

107

(1)

Hitler and the Papacy

107

(1)

Protestant Responses

108

(1)

Protestant Protesters

109

(1)

Nazi Justice

110

(1)

The Compensation Game

111

(2)

German Jewish Life to 1939

113

(21)

Emancipation

113

(1)

Can Jews be Germans?

114

(1)

Economic Anti-Semitism

115

(1)

Political Anti-Semitism

116

(1)

Jewish Reaction: The Reform Movement

117

(1)

Is Zionism the Answer?

118

(1)

The CV Reaction

119

(1)

Effect of World War I

119

(1)

German Jews During the Weimar Years

120

(1)

Jewish Reaction Before 1933

121

(1)

Organizing for Survival

122

(1)

Master Plan or Expediency?

123

(1)

Who is a Jew?

124

(1)

The Boycott

125

(1)

The Nuremberg Laws

126

(1)

Juden Raus (Jews Get Out)

127

(1)

Emigration at an Impasse

128

(1)

Kristallnacht Pogrom

129

(1)

Economic Destruction

129

(1)

Mass Arrests

130

(1)

The Aftermath

131

(3)

Hitler's War

134

(25)

Hitler's Foreign Policy

135

(1)

Lebensraum

135

(1)

The International Atmosphere

136

(1)

Early Nazi Diplomacy

137

(1)

The Peaceful Facade

138

(1)

The Nonaggression Pact with Poland

139

(1)

Inertia in France and England

139

(1)

Bloodless Victories

140

(1)

Austrian Fiasco and Victory

141

(1)

The Sudeten Germans

142

(1)

Appeasement at Munich

143

(1)

The Czech Finale

144

(1)

Map 7--1

145

(1)

The Startling Hitler-Stalin Pact

145

(2)

The War at a Glance

147

(1)

Map 7--2

147

(2)

The Defeat of Poland

149

(1)

Himmler's Vision of Poland

150

(1)

The War in the West

151

(2)

Governing the Conquered Nations

153

(1)

Great Britain Alone

153

(1)

The Balkan Connection

154

(1)

Operation Barbarossa

154

(2)

The Turning of the Tide

156

(3)

From Ideology to Isolation

159

(23)

What Did the German People Know?

160

(1)

An Overview

161

(1)

Types and Aims of Concentration Camps

162

(1)

The SS: State Within the State?

163

(1)

Himmler's Domain

164

(2)

The SS: Membership and Training

166

(1)

Who Served in the SS?

166

(2)

The Isolation of German Jews

168

(1)

Purging the Jews from Western Poland

169

(1)

The Deportations

170

(1)

Creation of Ghettos

171

(2)

Life in the Ghettos

173

(1)

General Features

174

(1)

Functions of the Judenraete

175

(2)

The Lodz Ghetto: Case in Point

177

(2)

The Warsaw Ghetto: Another Case in Point

179

(3)

The Genocide

182

(27)

The Wannsee Decision

182

(2)

Mobile Killing Squads: Aims

184

(1)

Organization

185

(1)

Bolts from the Blue

185

(1)

Map 9--1

186

(1)

Methods of Madness

187

(2)

The Killers

189

(1)

Some German Reactions

190

(1)

The Gas Vans

191

(1)

The Death Factories

192

(1)

Map 9--2

193

(1)

Gas Chambers

194

(1)

The Many Forms of Deception

195

(1)

The Sonderkommandos

196

(1)

Auschwitz Organization

197

(1)

Cheaper Than Slaves

198

(1)

Hunger

199

(2)

The Hungarian Tragedy

201

(1)

Surviving in a Concentration Camp

202

(2)

The Doctors

204

(1)

Camps in Central Europe

205

(1)

Theresienstadt and Ravensbruck

206

(2)

The Death Marches

208

(1)

Resistance and Rescue

209

(22)

Sheep or Wolves?

210

(1)

Evasion

211

(1)

The Warsaw Ghetto

212

(1)

The Revolt

213

(1)

Results and Meaning

214

(1)

Camp Revolts: An Overview

215

(2)

With the Partisans

217

(2)

Rescue: Too Little, Too Late

219

(1)

Ordinary People

220

(1)

Questions of Opportunities

221

(1)

What Was Known?

221

(1)

The Problem with Numbers

222

(1)

Delay and Obstruction in the United States

223

(2)

American Jewry

225

(1)

The War Refugee Board

225

(1)

The Danes

226

(1)

Setting the Scene

227

(1)

The Plot

227

(1)

The Escape

228

(1)

Accounting for the Danish Achievement

229

(1)

Some Concluding Thoughts

229

(2)

Epilogue

231

(12)

Postwar Germany

231

(1)

Occupation Zones

232

(1)

Jews and Other Displaced Persons

233

(1)

Jewish Survivors

234

(1)

Special Problems

235

(1)

Seeking a Refuge: United States

236

(1)

Palestine

236

(1)

The Israeli Ingathering

237

(1)

Justice for the Murderers?

237

(2)

The Nuremberg Trial: 1945--1946

239

(1)

Judges, Prosecutors, and Defendants

239

(1)

The Verdicts

240

(1)

Further Trials

240

(1)

Denazification: The Concept

241

(1)

The Western Military Zones

241

(1)

Results

242

(1)

Glossary and Abbreviations

243

(3)

Time Line

246

(3)

Bibliography and Selected Readings

249

(6)

Index

255

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