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

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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

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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, 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.