Maps Readers' Guide Abbreviations Introduction and Series Postscript PART I: THE "FINAL ... more Maps Readers' Guide Abbreviations Introduction and Series Postscript PART I: THE "FINAL SOLUTION" AND THE END OF THE WAR Chapter One: The End of the War and the Last Throes of Genocide Resistance, Rescue, and Escape The Last Deportations, 1944-1945 The Final Days of the Concentration Camp System Moving Jews: Death Marches and the End of the War Chapter Two: Experiencing "Liberation" American Jewish Soldiers Encounter the Holocaust Responding to the Liberators: Liberation from the Perspective Chapter Three: Adjusting to Peace, Surviving Survival Emerging from the Holocaust: Finding a "Home" in Postwar Europe Surviving as Children, Reclaiming Childhood: Jewish Children after the War PART II: JEWS ON THE MOVE: FINDING AND DEFINING "HOME" IN THE POSTWAR ERA Chapter Four: Returning "Home": Emigration and the Search for Postwar Normalcy Refugees and the Postwar Landscape: Borders, Citizenship, and Nationality Creating Homeland: Aspirations for Palestine The Other "Promised Land": Refugees and Survivors in the United States A Home Elsewhere: Emigration outside Palestine and the United States Chapter Five: Jews and Displaced Persons Camps in Postwar Europe Jewish Involvement in DP Camp Administration The Daily Lives of Jewish DPs: Interpreting the Holocaust from the Inside Chapter Six: Citizenship, Nationhood, and Homeland: Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters and the Zionist Ideal Imagining "Home:" Jewish Displaced Persons and Differing Visions of Zionism Between Tolerance and Antisemitism: Making a Home in the Diaspora PART III: TAKING STOCK, SEARCHING FOR JUSTICE Chapter Seven: The Search for Relatives Creating Lists of the Living and Lists of the Dead "Only Sad News to Report": Survivor Letters to Family Outside Europe Searching for Jewish Children in the Postwar Period: The Organizational Process Picking Up and Moving On: Grappling with Decimated Families Chapter Eight: Punishing the Perpetrators Official Justice: Allied War Crimes Trials Coverage of Postwar Trials in the Jewish Press In Pursuit of Justice: Statements of the Victims Justice on the Local Level: Claims and Accusations Chapter Nine: Reclaiming Possessions Restitution in Theory and Practice: Legal Considerations The Conversation among Jewish Communal Organizations Restitution on the Local Level: Challenges and Roadblocks Personal Restitution Claims PART IV: FRAMING, DEFINING, AND REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST Chapter Ten: Making Memory: Early Memoirs and Reflections Early Histories of the Holocaust: An Emerging Field Between Nostalgia and Destruction: The Role of Yitzkor Memorial Books 3 Early Postwar Memoirs and Literary Reflections Unpublished Diaries and Memoirs in the Immediate Postwar Period Chapter Eleven: Commemorating the Victims: Memorializing the Holocaust Marking Graves: Commemorating the Dead In Situ Local Memories, Local Memorials: Memorializing Individual Communities Responding Religiously: The Formation of Post-Holocaust Theologies Emerging Centers of Jewish History and Documentation Memorial as National Identity: The Holocaust and Prestate Israel Chapter Twelve: The Survivors Speak: Collecting and Defining Postwar Testimony Interviewing the Victims: Jewish Historical Commissions Local Testimony Efforts: Interviewing Survivors in Their Former Homes "I Did Not Interview the Dead": David Boder and the First Recorded Testimony List of Documents Bibliography Glossary Chronology Index About the Author
Maps Readers' Guide Abbreviations Introduction and Series Postscript PART I: THE "FINAL ... more Maps Readers' Guide Abbreviations Introduction and Series Postscript PART I: THE "FINAL SOLUTION" AND THE END OF THE WAR Chapter One: The End of the War and the Last Throes of Genocide Resistance, Rescue, and Escape The Last Deportations, 1944-1945 The Final Days of the Concentration Camp System Moving Jews: Death Marches and the End of the War Chapter Two: Experiencing "Liberation" American Jewish Soldiers Encounter the Holocaust Responding to the Liberators: Liberation from the Perspective Chapter Three: Adjusting to Peace, Surviving Survival Emerging from the Holocaust: Finding a "Home" in Postwar Europe Surviving as Children, Reclaiming Childhood: Jewish Children after the War PART II: JEWS ON THE MOVE: FINDING AND DEFINING "HOME" IN THE POSTWAR ERA Chapter Four: Returning "Home": Emigration and the Search for Postwar Normalcy Refugees and the Postwar Landscape: Borders, Citizenship, and Nationality Creating Homeland: Aspirat...
Pre-Proof chapter for Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller (eds.), The participants of... more Pre-Proof chapter for Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller (eds.), The participants of the Wannsee Conference (Metropol and Berghahn 2017)
... Press, 1988 ; Nechama Tec, Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood, Westport (Conn.), Wildc... more ... Press, 1988 ; Nechama Tec, Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood, Westport (Conn.), Wildcat Publishing Company, 1982 ; Nechama Tec, Resilience ... [ 19] HStAD dossiers de la Gestapo, Erna Michels RW 58-1808 ; Artur Jacobs RW 58-19223 et 71703 ; Emma Schreiber RW ...
Opening Becoming Hitler and reading the preface is disorienting until one recognizes that Thomas ... more Opening Becoming Hitler and reading the preface is disorienting until one recognizes that Thomas Weber is seeking to advance two opposing theses: one establishing that Hitler’s character was more fluid than we thought, and another proving it was less. On the one hand, Hitler is shown as arriving at a mature set of ideas surprisingly late. It was not his life as a young man in Vienna, his experience as a dispatch runner in war, or his involvement in the German revolution that brought him there, but rather a rapid and dramatic new trajectory after the crushing of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. On the other hand, once this trajectory was set, Hitler very rapidly adopted a clear and sustained political personality. He was no opportunist, no dilettante, but rather had a very clear vision about where he was going, a vision that distinguished him from many of his contemporaries and from the environment that otherwise shaped his views. In short, in April 1919, everything remained to be decided in his outlook, and he might yet have remained the loyal servant of the Republic and a moderate Social Democrat. By 1924, the elimination of world Jewry and the conquering of living space were in his sights. In seeking to prove both openness and fixity, Weber has set himself a delicate task, one that results in part from a bifurcation in the historiography on Hitler. As we know, there has long been a search deep in his biography for the roots of his ideas and a tendency to see him driven from an early stage by the same obsessions. On the other hand, another wellestablished body of literature presents him as flexible and opportunist, andMein Kampf as anything but a blueprint for action. Weber is what one might call a latter-day intentionalist in the sense of reclaiming Hitler as a man of very clear and distinctive ambitions, and above all emphasizing the consistent radicality of his thoughts. At the same time, using his own and others’ recent work on the wartime sources, he wants to show that Hitler arrived at his obsessions relatively late – namely in his early 30s. Although it is a standalone work, Becoming Hitler is best read in tandem with Weber’s earlier book, Hitler’s First War. Using underand unused records from Hitler’s regiment, in the previous book, Weber sought to make the first part of the case about Hitler’s evolution, namely that Hitler’s later worldview did not take shape during the war. It was Brigitte Hamman, in Hitler’s Wien, who had already demolished the idea that Hitler had formed a strong antisemitism in his Vienna years, based among other things on his social contact with Jews and on the memoirs of those who interacted with him. That left the radicalizing impact of the war experience as the obvious culprit for shaping Hitler’s views. In Hitler’s First War, Weber challenged the idea of war as transformative moment and at the same time began the project that continues in the present book – of critiquing the mythical account of his origins that Hitler invented in Mein Kampf.
In writing the biography of the Holocaust survivor, Marianne Ellenbogen (who survived in hiding i... more In writing the biography of the Holocaust survivor, Marianne Ellenbogen (who survived in hiding in Germany), the author was able to draw not only on the oral testimony of the subject but on an unusual range of additional historical sources, some of which seemed to challenge the veracity of the survivor’s recollections in small but significant ways. In documenting the process by which these discrepancies were uncovered and opening them to scrutiny, the author seeks not to contest the unique value of eyewitness testimony, but to lay bare the complex layers of memory apparent in one individual’s re-telling of her Holocaust experience and the strategies adopted within her account to help her cope with an unbearable past.
For Germany more than any other country under review in this volume, the three ends of wars broug... more For Germany more than any other country under review in this volume, the three ends of wars brought dramatic change. Each involved fundamental alterations to Germany’s internal political and social structure. Each confronted Germany with a new international environment, in particular with a new political constellation on its Eastern borders. Yet the significance of these turning points for Germany’s ability to maintain a stable democracy was vastly different. The new democracy that emerged in 1918 was contested from the start, subject to violent attack from within and gave way after 15 years to one of the most murderous regimes in human history. After 1945, in the western part of Germany at least, a much more successful democracy emerged. The Federal Republic became as indelibly associated with stability as Weimar was with crisis. The third turning point 1989, despite increasing the size of the population by a third and fundamentally altering the Federal Republic’s geopolitical situation, has until now had a much more limited impact on Germany’s political system.
... Haupt Stastsarchiv D?sseldorf (HStaD) RW58, 74234, folio titulado ?Betrifft: Flucht der J?din... more ... Haupt Stastsarchiv D?sseldorf (HStaD) RW58, 74234, folio titulado ?Betrifft: Flucht der J?din Marianne Sara Strau?...? Essen 3.9.1943. ... Strauss ?un plazo fijo (eine befristete Auflage) para empaquetar los objetos necesarios?,14 solo el relato de Marianne de las angustias de la ...
... Press, 1988 ; Nechama Tec, Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood, Westport (Conn.), Wildc... more ... Press, 1988 ; Nechama Tec, Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood, Westport (Conn.), Wildcat Publishing Company, 1982 ; Nechama Tec, Resilience ... [ 19] HStAD dossiers de la Gestapo, Erna Michels RW 58-1808 ; Artur Jacobs RW 58-19223 et 71703 ; Emma Schreiber RW ...
Using the example of several recent biographies of leading Nazis, the article explores whether bi... more Using the example of several recent biographies of leading Nazis, the article explores whether biography enables us to understand involvement in racial violence and genocide. In particular, it questions whether the degree of agency, initiative and individual malleability in a dictatorship is visible from this vantage point. It also investigates the kind of understanding of leadership and agency held by the subjects themselves, and the model of action they sought to embody. Along the way it explores the methodological issues confronting any attempt to penetrate the minds of such figures. It argues that biography offers valuable glimpses, but the nature of the sources and the difficulty of interpreting speech acts before, during and after the Nazi period make it extremely difficult to identify the limits of agency and Eigensinn even of high-profile players in the Nazi system. Finally, it confronts the challenge of empathy and argues that the moral inadmissibility of empathizing with the perpetrators sets invisible limits from the outset on the explanatory potential of biography.
Maps Readers' Guide Abbreviations Introduction and Series Postscript PART I: THE "FINAL ... more Maps Readers' Guide Abbreviations Introduction and Series Postscript PART I: THE "FINAL SOLUTION" AND THE END OF THE WAR Chapter One: The End of the War and the Last Throes of Genocide Resistance, Rescue, and Escape The Last Deportations, 1944-1945 The Final Days of the Concentration Camp System Moving Jews: Death Marches and the End of the War Chapter Two: Experiencing "Liberation" American Jewish Soldiers Encounter the Holocaust Responding to the Liberators: Liberation from the Perspective Chapter Three: Adjusting to Peace, Surviving Survival Emerging from the Holocaust: Finding a "Home" in Postwar Europe Surviving as Children, Reclaiming Childhood: Jewish Children after the War PART II: JEWS ON THE MOVE: FINDING AND DEFINING "HOME" IN THE POSTWAR ERA Chapter Four: Returning "Home": Emigration and the Search for Postwar Normalcy Refugees and the Postwar Landscape: Borders, Citizenship, and Nationality Creating Homeland: Aspirations for Palestine The Other "Promised Land": Refugees and Survivors in the United States A Home Elsewhere: Emigration outside Palestine and the United States Chapter Five: Jews and Displaced Persons Camps in Postwar Europe Jewish Involvement in DP Camp Administration The Daily Lives of Jewish DPs: Interpreting the Holocaust from the Inside Chapter Six: Citizenship, Nationhood, and Homeland: Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters and the Zionist Ideal Imagining "Home:" Jewish Displaced Persons and Differing Visions of Zionism Between Tolerance and Antisemitism: Making a Home in the Diaspora PART III: TAKING STOCK, SEARCHING FOR JUSTICE Chapter Seven: The Search for Relatives Creating Lists of the Living and Lists of the Dead "Only Sad News to Report": Survivor Letters to Family Outside Europe Searching for Jewish Children in the Postwar Period: The Organizational Process Picking Up and Moving On: Grappling with Decimated Families Chapter Eight: Punishing the Perpetrators Official Justice: Allied War Crimes Trials Coverage of Postwar Trials in the Jewish Press In Pursuit of Justice: Statements of the Victims Justice on the Local Level: Claims and Accusations Chapter Nine: Reclaiming Possessions Restitution in Theory and Practice: Legal Considerations The Conversation among Jewish Communal Organizations Restitution on the Local Level: Challenges and Roadblocks Personal Restitution Claims PART IV: FRAMING, DEFINING, AND REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST Chapter Ten: Making Memory: Early Memoirs and Reflections Early Histories of the Holocaust: An Emerging Field Between Nostalgia and Destruction: The Role of Yitzkor Memorial Books 3 Early Postwar Memoirs and Literary Reflections Unpublished Diaries and Memoirs in the Immediate Postwar Period Chapter Eleven: Commemorating the Victims: Memorializing the Holocaust Marking Graves: Commemorating the Dead In Situ Local Memories, Local Memorials: Memorializing Individual Communities Responding Religiously: The Formation of Post-Holocaust Theologies Emerging Centers of Jewish History and Documentation Memorial as National Identity: The Holocaust and Prestate Israel Chapter Twelve: The Survivors Speak: Collecting and Defining Postwar Testimony Interviewing the Victims: Jewish Historical Commissions Local Testimony Efforts: Interviewing Survivors in Their Former Homes "I Did Not Interview the Dead": David Boder and the First Recorded Testimony List of Documents Bibliography Glossary Chronology Index About the Author
Maps Readers' Guide Abbreviations Introduction and Series Postscript PART I: THE "FINAL ... more Maps Readers' Guide Abbreviations Introduction and Series Postscript PART I: THE "FINAL SOLUTION" AND THE END OF THE WAR Chapter One: The End of the War and the Last Throes of Genocide Resistance, Rescue, and Escape The Last Deportations, 1944-1945 The Final Days of the Concentration Camp System Moving Jews: Death Marches and the End of the War Chapter Two: Experiencing "Liberation" American Jewish Soldiers Encounter the Holocaust Responding to the Liberators: Liberation from the Perspective Chapter Three: Adjusting to Peace, Surviving Survival Emerging from the Holocaust: Finding a "Home" in Postwar Europe Surviving as Children, Reclaiming Childhood: Jewish Children after the War PART II: JEWS ON THE MOVE: FINDING AND DEFINING "HOME" IN THE POSTWAR ERA Chapter Four: Returning "Home": Emigration and the Search for Postwar Normalcy Refugees and the Postwar Landscape: Borders, Citizenship, and Nationality Creating Homeland: Aspirat...
Pre-Proof chapter for Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller (eds.), The participants of... more Pre-Proof chapter for Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller (eds.), The participants of the Wannsee Conference (Metropol and Berghahn 2017)
... Press, 1988 ; Nechama Tec, Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood, Westport (Conn.), Wildc... more ... Press, 1988 ; Nechama Tec, Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood, Westport (Conn.), Wildcat Publishing Company, 1982 ; Nechama Tec, Resilience ... [ 19] HStAD dossiers de la Gestapo, Erna Michels RW 58-1808 ; Artur Jacobs RW 58-19223 et 71703 ; Emma Schreiber RW ...
Opening Becoming Hitler and reading the preface is disorienting until one recognizes that Thomas ... more Opening Becoming Hitler and reading the preface is disorienting until one recognizes that Thomas Weber is seeking to advance two opposing theses: one establishing that Hitler’s character was more fluid than we thought, and another proving it was less. On the one hand, Hitler is shown as arriving at a mature set of ideas surprisingly late. It was not his life as a young man in Vienna, his experience as a dispatch runner in war, or his involvement in the German revolution that brought him there, but rather a rapid and dramatic new trajectory after the crushing of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. On the other hand, once this trajectory was set, Hitler very rapidly adopted a clear and sustained political personality. He was no opportunist, no dilettante, but rather had a very clear vision about where he was going, a vision that distinguished him from many of his contemporaries and from the environment that otherwise shaped his views. In short, in April 1919, everything remained to be decided in his outlook, and he might yet have remained the loyal servant of the Republic and a moderate Social Democrat. By 1924, the elimination of world Jewry and the conquering of living space were in his sights. In seeking to prove both openness and fixity, Weber has set himself a delicate task, one that results in part from a bifurcation in the historiography on Hitler. As we know, there has long been a search deep in his biography for the roots of his ideas and a tendency to see him driven from an early stage by the same obsessions. On the other hand, another wellestablished body of literature presents him as flexible and opportunist, andMein Kampf as anything but a blueprint for action. Weber is what one might call a latter-day intentionalist in the sense of reclaiming Hitler as a man of very clear and distinctive ambitions, and above all emphasizing the consistent radicality of his thoughts. At the same time, using his own and others’ recent work on the wartime sources, he wants to show that Hitler arrived at his obsessions relatively late – namely in his early 30s. Although it is a standalone work, Becoming Hitler is best read in tandem with Weber’s earlier book, Hitler’s First War. Using underand unused records from Hitler’s regiment, in the previous book, Weber sought to make the first part of the case about Hitler’s evolution, namely that Hitler’s later worldview did not take shape during the war. It was Brigitte Hamman, in Hitler’s Wien, who had already demolished the idea that Hitler had formed a strong antisemitism in his Vienna years, based among other things on his social contact with Jews and on the memoirs of those who interacted with him. That left the radicalizing impact of the war experience as the obvious culprit for shaping Hitler’s views. In Hitler’s First War, Weber challenged the idea of war as transformative moment and at the same time began the project that continues in the present book – of critiquing the mythical account of his origins that Hitler invented in Mein Kampf.
In writing the biography of the Holocaust survivor, Marianne Ellenbogen (who survived in hiding i... more In writing the biography of the Holocaust survivor, Marianne Ellenbogen (who survived in hiding in Germany), the author was able to draw not only on the oral testimony of the subject but on an unusual range of additional historical sources, some of which seemed to challenge the veracity of the survivor’s recollections in small but significant ways. In documenting the process by which these discrepancies were uncovered and opening them to scrutiny, the author seeks not to contest the unique value of eyewitness testimony, but to lay bare the complex layers of memory apparent in one individual’s re-telling of her Holocaust experience and the strategies adopted within her account to help her cope with an unbearable past.
For Germany more than any other country under review in this volume, the three ends of wars broug... more For Germany more than any other country under review in this volume, the three ends of wars brought dramatic change. Each involved fundamental alterations to Germany’s internal political and social structure. Each confronted Germany with a new international environment, in particular with a new political constellation on its Eastern borders. Yet the significance of these turning points for Germany’s ability to maintain a stable democracy was vastly different. The new democracy that emerged in 1918 was contested from the start, subject to violent attack from within and gave way after 15 years to one of the most murderous regimes in human history. After 1945, in the western part of Germany at least, a much more successful democracy emerged. The Federal Republic became as indelibly associated with stability as Weimar was with crisis. The third turning point 1989, despite increasing the size of the population by a third and fundamentally altering the Federal Republic’s geopolitical situation, has until now had a much more limited impact on Germany’s political system.
... Haupt Stastsarchiv D?sseldorf (HStaD) RW58, 74234, folio titulado ?Betrifft: Flucht der J?din... more ... Haupt Stastsarchiv D?sseldorf (HStaD) RW58, 74234, folio titulado ?Betrifft: Flucht der J?din Marianne Sara Strau?...? Essen 3.9.1943. ... Strauss ?un plazo fijo (eine befristete Auflage) para empaquetar los objetos necesarios?,14 solo el relato de Marianne de las angustias de la ...
... Press, 1988 ; Nechama Tec, Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood, Westport (Conn.), Wildc... more ... Press, 1988 ; Nechama Tec, Dry Tears : The Story of a Lost Childhood, Westport (Conn.), Wildcat Publishing Company, 1982 ; Nechama Tec, Resilience ... [ 19] HStAD dossiers de la Gestapo, Erna Michels RW 58-1808 ; Artur Jacobs RW 58-19223 et 71703 ; Emma Schreiber RW ...
Using the example of several recent biographies of leading Nazis, the article explores whether bi... more Using the example of several recent biographies of leading Nazis, the article explores whether biography enables us to understand involvement in racial violence and genocide. In particular, it questions whether the degree of agency, initiative and individual malleability in a dictatorship is visible from this vantage point. It also investigates the kind of understanding of leadership and agency held by the subjects themselves, and the model of action they sought to embody. Along the way it explores the methodological issues confronting any attempt to penetrate the minds of such figures. It argues that biography offers valuable glimpses, but the nature of the sources and the difficulty of interpreting speech acts before, during and after the Nazi period make it extremely difficult to identify the limits of agency and Eigensinn even of high-profile players in the Nazi system. Finally, it confronts the challenge of empathy and argues that the moral inadmissibility of empathizing with the perpetrators sets invisible limits from the outset on the explanatory potential of biography.
In the early 1920s amidst the upheaval of Weimar Germany, a small group of peaceable idealists be... more In the early 1920s amidst the upheaval of Weimar Germany, a small group of peaceable idealists began to meet, practicing a quiet, communal life focused on self-improvement. For the most part, they had come to know each other while attending adult education classes in the city of Essen. But “the Bund,” as they called their group, had lofty aspirations—under the direction of their leader Artur Jacobs, its members hoped to forge an ideal community that would serve as a model for society at large. But with the ascent of the Nazis, the Bund was forced to reevaluate its mission, focusing instead on offering assistance to the persecuted, despite the great risk. Their activities ranged from visiting devastated Jewish families after Kristallnacht, to sending illicit letters and parcels of food and clothes to deportees in concentration camps, to sheltering political dissidents and Jews on the run.
What became of this group? And how should its deeds—often small, seemingly insignificant acts of kindness and assistance—be evaluated in the broader history of life under the Nazis? Drawing on a striking set of previously unpublished letters, diaries, Gestapo reports, other documents, and his own interviews with survivors, historian Mark Roseman shows how and why the Bund undertook its dangerous work. It is an extraordinary story in its own right, but Roseman takes us deeper, encouraging us to rethink the concepts of resistance and rescue under the Nazis, ideas too often hijacked by popular notions of individual heroism or political idealism. Above all, the Bund’s story is one that sheds new light on what it meant to offer a helping hand in this dark time.
The ‘racial state’ has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison ... more The ‘racial state’ has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison d'être, ambitions, and the underlying logic of its genocidal violence. The Nazi racial state's agenda is generally understood as a fundamental reshaping of society based on a new hierarchy of racial value. However, this volume argues that it is time to reappraise what race really meant under Nazism, and to question and complicate its relationship to the Nazis' agenda, actions, and appeal. Based on a wealth of new research, the contributors show that racial knowledge and racial discourse in Nazi Germany were far more contradictory and disparate than we have come to assume. They shed new light on the ways that racial policy worked and was understood, and consider race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis. 1. Racial discourse, Nazi violence, and the limits of the racial state model; 2. The murder of European jewry: Nazi genocide in continental perspective; 3. Meanings of race and biopolitics in historical perspective; 4. Racial states in comparative perspective; 5. Eugenics and racial science in Nazi Germany: was there a genesis of the ‘final solution' from the spirit of science?; 6. Race science, race mysticism, and the racial state; 7. Ideology's logic: the evolution of racial thought in Germany from the völkisch movement to the Third Reich; 8. Nazi medical crimes, eugenics, and the limits of the racial state paradigm; 9. ‘The axis around which national socialist ideology turns': state bureaucracy, the Reich Ministry of the Interior and racial policy in the first years of the Third Reich; 10. Neither Aryan nor Semite: reflections on the meanings of race in Nazi Germany; 11. racializing historiography: anti- Jewish scholarship in the Third Reich; 12. Volksgemeinschaft: a controversy; 13. mothers, whores, or sentimental dupes? Emotion and race in historiographical debates about women in the Third Reich; 14. Nationalist mobilization: foreign diplomats' views on the Third Reich, 1933–1945; 15. Race and humor in Nazi Germany; 16. Legitimacy through war?; 17. Negotiating völkisch and racial identities: the Deutsche Volksliste in annexed Poland; 18. Sex, race, volksgemeinschaft: German soldiers' sexual encounters with local women and men during the war and the occupation in the Soviet Union, 1941–1945; 19. The disintegration of the racial basis of the concentration camp system.
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What became of this group? And how should its deeds—often small, seemingly insignificant acts of kindness and assistance—be evaluated in the broader history of life under the Nazis? Drawing on a striking set of previously unpublished letters, diaries, Gestapo reports, other documents, and his own interviews with survivors, historian Mark Roseman shows how and why the Bund undertook its dangerous work. It is an extraordinary story in its own right, but Roseman takes us deeper, encouraging us to rethink the concepts of resistance and rescue under the Nazis, ideas too often hijacked by popular notions of individual heroism or political idealism. Above all, the Bund’s story is one that sheds new light on what it meant to offer a helping hand in this dark time.
and was understood, and consider race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.
1. Racial discourse, Nazi violence, and the limits of the racial state model; 2. The murder of European jewry: Nazi genocide in continental perspective; 3. Meanings of race and biopolitics in historical perspective; 4. Racial states in comparative perspective; 5. Eugenics and racial science in Nazi Germany: was there a genesis of the ‘final solution' from the spirit of science?; 6. Race science, race mysticism, and the racial state; 7. Ideology's logic: the evolution of racial thought in Germany from the völkisch movement to the Third Reich; 8. Nazi medical crimes, eugenics, and the limits of the racial state paradigm; 9. ‘The axis around which national socialist ideology turns': state bureaucracy, the Reich Ministry of the Interior and racial policy in the first years of the Third Reich; 10. Neither Aryan nor Semite: reflections on the meanings of race in Nazi Germany; 11. racializing historiography: anti- Jewish scholarship in the Third Reich; 12. Volksgemeinschaft: a controversy; 13. mothers, whores, or sentimental dupes? Emotion and race in historiographical debates about women in the Third Reich; 14. Nationalist mobilization: foreign diplomats' views on the Third Reich, 1933–1945; 15. Race and humor in Nazi Germany; 16. Legitimacy through war?; 17. Negotiating völkisch and racial identities: the Deutsche Volksliste in annexed Poland; 18. Sex, race, volksgemeinschaft: German soldiers' sexual encounters with local women and men during the war and the occupation in the Soviet Union, 1941–1945; 19. The disintegration of the racial basis of the concentration camp system.