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Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2 dl. (1659 p) : ill., krt. ; 29 cm

Master thesis Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam. 60 bladen. ; 30 cm.

Une histoire du camp de Poitiers, ou furent internés en 1939 les Républicains espagnols réfugiés dans la région. En décembre 1940, les autorités d'occupation et l'administration de Vichy décident de le transformer en camp de concentration pour Tsiganes : 450 y seront enfermés. En 1941, c'est au tour des juifs du Poitou de connaître le même sort. 338 p. : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Includes index. viii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

This article presents a methodology designed to yield a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the behaviour of prisoner-functionaries in Nazi camps: the coercion-resistance spectrum. After a short discussion of historiographical trends related to Jewish functionaries and to Jewish resistance to the Nazis, the article details this new analytical approach to these figures whose assigned tasks facilitated ...

In the 1950s, the policy of the West German law courts was to limit the number of Germans who could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity during the Nazi era, thereby preserving the old state elites who had been accomplices to the Nazi regime, among them the judiciary, 90% of whom had been Nazi party members. The number of Nazi criminals prosecuted in West Germany dropped throughout the 1950s. ...

Né en France en 1909, Jacques Rossi passera 19 ans au Goulag et ne retrouvera son pays natal, après bien des aventures, qu'en 1985. Décidé à communiquer son expérience concentrationnaire, tout en évitant la facilité de l'autobiographie, il a choisi la forme du manuel afin d'évoquer le pourquoi et le comment de cette institution destinée à broyer les hommes. Bibliographie : pages 315-320. ...

280 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Examines the policies, administration, and personnel which carried out the Final Solution in Eastern Galicia. Under Soviet rule (1939-1941), Jewish property had been nationalized, communal organizations abolished, and "enemies of the state" deported. Ukrainians were also persecuted by the communists (among whom were many Jews). After the German invasion, they took revenge by massacring Jews, encouraged ...

Chronicles the history of the Holocaust in the largest of the Polish territories annexed to the Reich, from the early antisemitic measures through the ghettoization, forced labor, and deportations. Details the structure of the civil administration and the political police, and the names and backgrounds of the Nazi decision-makers. The Gau was to be settled by Volksdeutsche; to make room for them, Poles ...

At Guantanamo Bay detention camp, history has proved that concepts of right and wrong can all too easily become distorted by expediency and ambiguity. This program examines the lives of high-profile individuals from both sides of the razor wire who have intimate knowledge of the horrors of Gitmo: Murat Kurnaz, a former inmate who was detained without trial for five years; former Navy officer Matthew ...

The legendary image of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a liberal and humanitarian president who was concerned for the downtrodden conflicts with his response to the Nazi persecution of European Jewry. During the years of Nazi rule in Germany, the Roosevelt administration ignored the plight of European Jews, obstructed opportunities for their rescue, closed the country's doors before refugees (ca. 190,000 ...