Can It Happen Again?: Chronicles of the Holocaust

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Author: Roselle K. Chartock

ISBN-10: 1579122086

ISBN-13: 9781579122089

Category: Jewish Literature Anthologies

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This landmark collection of eyewitness accounts, memoirs, documents and writings on the Nazi Holocaust provides unparalleled insight into the darkest chapter in human history. Finally in paperback, with a new foreword and several new essays, CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN? is a comprehensive volume of documents from eyewitnesses, participants and our most eminent writers, journalists and scholars on the Holocaust. Contributors include Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, Primo Levi, Albert Speer, Art Spiegelman, Thomas Keneally, Abraham Foxman, Arthur Koestler, George Orwell-and Adolf Hitler himself. Included in this edition are recent selections touching upon the horrors in Cambodia, the Wounded Knee massacre, the dilemma posed by Nazi war criminals and a portfolio of artwork by Si Lewen, a Polish artist whose work reflects the pain and inhumanity of the Nazi camps.BooknewsThe proceedings of the August 1995 conference, co-sponsored by the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, comprise 130 papers in the areas of attitude determination, mission design, orbit determination and control, tether satellite systems, space robotics, trajectory design and optimization, orbital debris, and control of flexible structures. The present volume consists of two parts plus a $15 microfiche supplement (unseen by Book News). All of the papers appear in full in either Volume 90 or its supplement; in all cases, at least an abstract appears in Volume 90 itself with reference to the supplement. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

AckowledgmentsxviAbout the EditorsxviiiIntroductionxixIWhat Happened?The Extermination of the Jews25Auschwitz: A Concentration Camp27The Death House29The Horrors of Daily Life31"The Final Solution of the Jewish Question"33The "Final Solution" in Action36The Graebe Memorandum38Dehumanization and Starvation41Map of Major Concentration Camps44Flow Chart for "Operation Reinhard," Auschwitz, and Majdanek46Chronology of Laws and Actions Directed Against Jews in Nazi Germany 1933-4548We Escaped from Hitler's Germany54"Listen to Me!"61Estimates of Jewish Losses 1939-4565The Nature of Man67The Prince69Man Is Evil and Warlike71Man Is Rational73Man Is Innately Aggressive74Man Is a Product of His Environment76II.Victims and Victimizers79The Jews of Europe81Christians and Jews in Europe 1870-191482Jewish Life in Europe Between the Two World Wars88An Excerpt from Maus I97Prejudice and Scapegoating101The Greenies103What Is the Difference Between a Prejudice and a Misconception?105What Should I Do?106Hey, White Girl!107The Meaning of Scapegoat109Prejudice112The Jew as Scapegoat113Other Voices/Other Victims117Bent119The Juggler125Extermination of the Gypsies129And the Violins Stopped Playing131III.How and Why?143The Third Reich145The Third Reich in Perspective147Seven Case Studies153Herr Damm157Why I Joined the Hitler Youth161A Town Goes Nazi162In Their Own Words165Commander of Auschwitz167Hoess Explains Why He Killed the Jews168Other Gestapo Men Explain169Albert Speer Speaks170Hitler's Theories171On the Aryan173About the Jew174The Jews in Hitler's Mental World175Politics and Music176The Nazi Program185The Nazi Program187The Lebensborn Movement190Euthanasia192For Twins of Auschwitz, Time to Unlock Secrets194IV.What does the Holocaust Reveal About the Individual and Society?199A Doctor for the Nazis Remembers201From a Doctor's Diary203Kim, Cabin Boy and Seaman205Bernard Lichtenberg, Prelate207The World Was Silent209Nazi Brutality to Jews2202,000,000 Murders222The Righteous Danes224A Congressman Speaks for Minority Rights225Thirty-Eight Witnesses226Twentieth-Century Man229Man As Aggressor231People Are Really Good At Heart233The Decent and the Indecent234Behavior Under Stress235Music Out of Pain237Peat Bog Soldiers237Ani Ma'amin238Jewish Partisan Song238Children's Writings239We Got Used to239I'd Like to Go Alone239It All Depends on How You Look at It240Homesick240The Butterfly241The Garden242The Behavior of the Victims243The Warsaw Ghetto247"If You Could Lick My Heart..."250On Resistance254Resistance in the Concentration Camps258Why So Little Resistance?262Were Hitler's Henchmen Mad?264Hangman266Schindler's List271V.Aftermath277The Uprooted279Kibbutz Buchenwald280On the Genocide Convention283The Nuremberg Trials285The Sentences Imposed by the International Military Tribunal291State of Israel Proclamation of Independence292Dachau: Munich Suburb295A Visit to Auschwitz297Holocaust Museum Dedicated in Payment to Dead298Stefan: The Sufferer302VI.Could It Happen Again?307Parallels in Literature and Life309Utopia: The Controlled Society311The All-Powerful State317Babi Yar319If We Must Die322Why There Has Never Been a Humane Society323On Blind Faith324Sold to Louisiana326Slaughter of the Innocents328Mass Murder330The Armenians: An Example of Genocide332Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry334Kiyoshi Hirabayashi v. United States337The Greatest Trauma of All341Ominous Signs345Voyages of the Damned347Obedience to Authority350Visa Is Sweet Sorrow to a Soviet Couple353The Occurrence Is Past; The Phenomenon Remains356Erasing the Holocaust359Ominous Signs and Unspeakable Thoughts362Montana Outrage Stalls Skinheads364Excerpt from Gentlehands367Massacre at Wounded Knee--1890371Si Lewen: The Man and His Art376Excerpts from A Journey379EpilogueDear Teacher388Glossary of Terms389Index392