German Railroads, Jewish Souls

The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-276-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and death camps in Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component of the “machinery of destruction” but also emblematic of the amoral bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide. German Railroads, Jewish Souls centers around Hilberg’s seminal essay of the same name, a landmark study of German railways in the Nazi era long unavailable in English. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and historical commentary from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes, this is a rich and accessible introduction to a topic in Holocaust history that remains understudied even today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hilberg, Raul

Browning, Christopher

Hayes, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Christopher R. Browning and Peter Hayes

Chapter 1. The Bureaucracy of Annihilation

Raul Hilberg

Chapter 2. German Railroads/Jewish Souls

Raul Hilberg

Chapter 3. Document Section

Christopher R. Browning and Peter Hayes

Chapter 4. Raul Hilberg and Other Historians of the German Railway During the Nazi Era and the Holocaust

Christopher R. Browning

Chapter 5. Hilberg, the Railroads, and the Holocaust

Peter Hayes

Photos

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Browning, Christopher
Christopher Browning is Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus at the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.

Hilberg, Raul
Raul Hilberg (1926-2007) was the founding scholar of Holocaust studies in the United States and the author of numerous publications, including the classic The Destruction of the European Jews. He taught at the University of Vermont from 1955 to 1991.

Hayes, Peter
Peter Hayes is Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies Emeritus at Northwestern University. His most recent book is Why?: Explaining the Holocaust.

Raul Hilberg (1926-2007) was the founding scholar of Holocaust studies in the United States and the author of numerous publications, including the classic The Destruction of the European Jews. He taught at the University of Vermont from 1955 to 1991.