Accounting for Genocide
National Responses and Jewish Victimization During the Holocaust
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Format: Book
Description: xxi, 468 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
"Poses new theories concerning reasons why the genocidal campaign against the Jews started and why it differed greatly from country to country, using the diaries of Nazi victims to recreate the social and psychological history of several victimized Jewish communities."
Contents:
pt. 1: A macroscopic view -- Twentieth-century paths to genocide -- The calculus of genocide: a model and method to understand national differences in Jewish victimization -- The bonds that hold, the bonds that break: causes of national differences in Jewish victimization -- The keepers of the keys: responses of Christian churches to the threat against the Jews -- The Judenrate and other Jewish control agents -- Forging the bonds that hold: social defense movements against the state in Denmark, Belgium, and Bulgaria -- Forces outside the German orbit: the role of the allied governments, the American and British Jewish communities, and the European neutrals -- pt. 2: The victims' view -- Defining the situation: some historical paradigms -- The Warsaw ghetto -- The Netherlands -- Hungary -- Implications: coping and the contexts of consciousness..
ISBN:
0226240347
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SSHC HISTORY War WWII Holocaust Fei | Main (Downtown) | Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1979.
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-449).
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-449).