David Cesarani (ed.)

The Final Solution

Origins and Implementation
Herausgeber: Cesarani, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although there is an immense amount of literature on the 'Final Solution' - the Nazis' attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe during the Second World War - many critical questions still remain unresolved. The authoritative essays in The Final Solution set out to clarify the origins of the attempted genocide of the Jews, and to provide new answers to this period of history which often seems inexplicable. The book draws on important new evidence, much of it from archives in Eastern Europe which have only recently become accessible. Contributors are among the leading experts in the field. The essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the 'Final Solution' and the immediate origins of the decision to murder Europe's Jewish population. They consider, too, the impact of the German invasion of Russia in June 1941 on the evolution of a genocidal policy and the response of the peoples and governments in Germany, occupied Europe, the Free World and the Jewish communities under the Nazis and in the West. The results of this study are often controversial. The essays challenge many accepted notions about the behaviour of the German Army, how much the Germans knew, and the response of the non-Jewish population in Occupied Europe and the West. The Final Solution will be of great interest to students of modern European history. It will also make invaluable reading for anyone seeking to understand further this most tragic chapter of recent history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780415099547
• ISBN-10: 0415099544
• Artikelnr.: 22442706

Autorenporträt

David Cesarani

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1 Antecedents, preconditions and legitimation 1
Volksgemeinschaft, 'Aryanization' and the Holocaust 2 Euthanasia and the
Final Solution 3 The idea of the Final Solution and the role of experts
Part 2 Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht and the question of timing 4
Himmler, the architect of genocide 5 The relation between Operation
Barbarossa as an ideological war of extermination and the Final Solution 6
Wehrmacht, Einsatzgruppen, Soviet POWs and anti-Bolshevism in the emergence
of the Final Solution 7 Operation Barbarossa and the origins of the Final
Solution 8 Hitler and the euphoria of victory: the path to the Final
Solution Part 3 The implementation of the Final Solution and responses 9
The response of Polish Jewry to the Final Solution 10 The Holocaust in
Lithuania: some unique aspects 11 Types of Genocide? Croatians, Serbs and
Jews, 1941-5 12 How far did Vichy France 'sabotage' the imperatives of
Wannsee? 13 German public awareness of the Final Solution 14 Rescue through
statehood: the American Zionist response to the Holocaust 15 Different
worlds: British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second World
War 16 Enmity, indifference or cooperation: the Allies and Yishuv's rescue
activists Part 4 Historiography 17 Documents on the Holocaust in archives
of the former Soviet Union Conclusion: the significance of the Final
Solution