The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: Volume 2, Perpetrating The Holocaust: Policies, Participants, Places

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-108-83938-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten

Reihe: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust

This ambitious pan-European overview explores the most significant causal factors, political developments and societal forces that contributed to the perpetration of the Holocaust. Drawing on wide-ranging current scholarly expertise, this volume seeks to explain the genocidal scope and European dimensions of the crimes committed by Nazi Germany and its allies, collaborators and facilitators across the continent during the war. It broadens the range of Holocaust research beyond the German initiators and organizers, however central these remain. Contributions look beyond simple or monocausal explanations in terms of, for example, Hitler's role or ideological antisemitism. Combining in-depth studies of specific locations and developments with overviews of thematic issues and wider questions, the second volume of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust offers concise analyses of the complex developments, multi-varied interests, and interrelated events that were rooted in previous history and continue to influence the present within and beyond Europe. Cumulatively, this book presents a complex, multifaceted approach to understanding the uneven unfolding and escalation of the Holocaust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matthaus, Jurgen

Fulbrook, Mary

Matthäus, Jürgen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Structures, Players, and Processes: 1. Hitler, the Nazi leadership and the evolution of the final solution Christopher Browning; 2. The Nazi apparatus of terror: SS, SA, police Jochen Böhler; 3. Bystanders, collaboration and complicity; 4. Bystanders, collaboration and complicity Elizabeth Harvey; 5. The German economy and the exploitation and extermination of the Jews Susanne Heim; 6. The Wehrmacht, its allies, and 'partisan threats' Ben Shepherd; 7. Gender and perpetration Elissa Mailänder; 8. Perpetrator depictions of violence and the obliteration of evidence Valerie Hébert; 9. Discourses, knowledge, and disbelief in the Reich and beyond Frank Bajohr and Felix Berge; 10. 'Euthanasia', 'Germanization', and the beginnings of the Holocaust, 1939–1941 Isabel Heinemann; 11. The personnel and functioning of the extermination camps Sara Berger and Donald Bloxham; Part II. Times and Places: 12. Ghettos and other confined spaces of Jewish life in Nazi-dominated Europe Dan Michmann; 13. German and local violence in the Balkans Emil Kerenji; 14. Forced migration, flight and refuge in the West Miriam Rürup; 15. 'War of annihilation' in the occupied Soviet Union, 1941–1942 Edward Westermann; 16. Neighbors and killing in the East Tomasz Frydel; 17. 'Aktion Reinhardt' and the murder of the polish Jews Stephan Lehnstaedt; 18. Collaboration in German-dominated western Europe Peter Romijn; 19. Deportations from central and western Europe Birthe Kundrus and Jan Kreutz; 20. Remaining Jewish spaces and their liquidation, 1942–1944 Tatjana Tönsmeyer; 21. 'Operation Höss:' Auschwitz and the murder of the Hungarian Jews Gábor Kádár and Zoltán Vági; 22. Death marches of camp inmates and German atrocities at the war's end Daniel Blatman; 23. German agency and the Holocaust as a European project Jürgen Matthäus and Mary Fulbrook.

Über Autor(innen)

Matthäus, Jürgen
Jürgen Matthäus is a historian and Director of the Applied Research branch at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author or (co-)editor of more than twenty books including, as co-editor with Martin Cüppers and Anne Lepper, From 'Euthanasia' to Sobibor: An SS Officer's Photo Collection (2022).

Fulbrook, Mary
Mary Fulbrook, FBA, is Professor of German History at University College London. Her recent monographs include Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (2023); the Wolfson Prize-winning Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (2018); and the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz (2012).