The Routledge history of the Holocaust

Introduction / Jonathan C. Friedman. - PART I. The Nazi Takeover and Persecution in Hitler's Reich to 1939. 1. The Jewish communities of Europe on the eve of World War II / Jonathan C. Friedman. - 2. European antisemitism before the Holocaust and the roots of Nazism / William Brustein. - 3. Germany and the Armenian genocide of 1915-17 / Hans-Lukas Kieser. - 4. Eugenics, race hygiene, and the Holocaust: Antecedents and consolidations / Kirk C. Allison. - 5. Weimar Germany and the dilemmas of liberty / Eric D. Weitz. - 6. Hitler and the functioning of the Third Reich / Dieter Kuntz. - 7. The Thousand Year Reich's over one thousand anti-Jewish laws / Michael J. Bayzler. - 8. Persecution and gender: German-Jewish responses to Nazism, 1933-39 / Marion Kaplan. - 9. The fate of the Jews in Austria, 1933-39 / Lee H. Igel. - PART II. Germany's Racial War in Poland and the Soviet Union, 1939-41. 10. Victim and perpetrator perspectives of World War II-era ghettos / Helene Sinnreich. - 11. Forging the "Aryan Utopia": Nazi racial policy in occupied Poland, 1939-45 / Bradley Nichols. - 12. The Nazi "euthanasia" program / Patricia Heberer. - 13. The Einsatzgruppen and the issue of "ordinary men" / Guillaume De Syon. - 14. The origins of the Final Solution / Christopher Browning. - 15. Forced labor in Nazi anti-Jewish policy, 1938-45 / Wolf Gruner. - 16. The concentration and extermination camps of the Nazi regime / Sybille Steinbacher. - 17. Paradise/Hades, Purgatory, Hell/Gehenna: A political typology of the camps / Robert Jan Van Pelt. - PART III. The Final Solution in Europe. 18. Levels of accounting in Accounting for Genocide: A cross-national study of Jewish victimization during the Holocaust / Helen Fein. - 19. Reichskommissariat Ostland / David Gaunt. - 20. The Holocaust in western Europe / Wolfgang Seibel. - 21. Norway's role in the Holocaust: The destruction of Norway's Jews / Bjarte Bruland. - 22. The special characteristics of the Holocaust in Hungary, 1938-45 / King Afrojimovics. - 23. The Final Solution in southeastern Europe: Between Nazi catalysts and local motivations / James Frusetta. - 24. Transnistria: The Holocaust in Romania / Ronit Fischer. - 25. Nation-building and mass violence: The Independent State of Croatia, 1941-45 / Alexander Korb. - PART IV. The Responses from Victims, Bystanders, and Rescuers. 26. Sweden's complicated neutrality and the rescue of Danish Jewry / Paul A. Levine. - 27. The Rescuers: When the ordinary is extraordinary / Michael Berenbaum. - 28. Jewish resistance against Nazism / John M. Cox. - 29. "But I forsook not Thy precepts" (Ps. 119:87): Spiritual resistance to the Holocaust / Stephen Howard Garrin. - 30. The church, theology, and the Holocaust / Franklin Hamlin Littell and Marcia Sachs Littell. - 31. Model denomination or totalitarian sect? Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany / James Irvin Lichti. - 32. The neglected memory of the Romanies in the Holocaust/Porrajmos / Ian Hancock. - 33. The persecution of gay men and lesbians during the Third Reich / Geoffrey J. Giles. - 34. Double jeopardy: Being Jewish and female in the Holocaust / Myrna Goldenberg. - 35. The Jewish DP experience / Boaz Cohen. - PART V. The Holocaust in Law, Culture, and Memory. 36. Putting the Holocaust on trial in the two Germanies, 1945-89 / Devin Pendas. - 37. Music in the Nazi ghettos and camps / Shirli Gilbert. - 38. Holocaust documentaries / Lynne Fallwell, Robert G. Weiner. - 39. Sequential art narrative and the Holocaust / Robert G. Weiner, Lynne Fallwell. - 40. The role of the survivors in the remembrance of the Holocaust: Memorial monuments and Yizkor books / Rita Horvath. - 41. "The war began for me after the war": Jewish children in Poland, 1945-49 / Joanna B. Michlic. - 42. Toward a post-Holocaust theology in art: The search for the absent and present God / Stephen C. Feinstein. - Conclusion / Saul S. Friedman. Index. XIX, 516 p. ; 25 cm.