Gray Zones, Vol. 8
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The "gray zone" of the title refers to Primo Levi's phrase for the complex structure of Auschwitz, where the Italian author was interred, particularly to its system of conscripting Jews to collaborate in the destruction of fellow concentration camp inmates. Petropoulos (European history, Claremont McKenna College) and Roth (philosophy, Center for the Study of Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, same campus) introduce 25 chapters delving into the ambiguous nature of evil and justice. Contributors discuss aspects of this gray zone in relation to ghettos, survival strategies, identity issues, portrayal of the Holocaust in popular culture, and religion and ethics during and afterwards. Illustrations include maps and wartime film footage of Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Prologue : The gray zones of the HolocaustCh. 1The ambiguities of evil and justice : Degussa, Robert Pross, and the Jewish slave laborers at Gleiwitz7Ch. 2"Alleviation" and "compliance" : the survival strategies of the Jewish leadership in the Wierzbnik Ghetto and the Starachowice factory slave labor camps26Ch. 3Between sanity and insanity : spheres of everyday life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando37Ch. 4Sonderkommando : testimony from Evidence61Ch. 5A commentary on "gray zones" in Raul Hilberg's work70Ch. 6Incompleteness in Holocaust historiography81Ch. 7Choiceless choices : surviving on false papers on the "Aryan" side97Ch. 8"Who am I?" : the struggle for religious identity of Jewish children hidden by Christians during the Shoah107Ch. 9Hitler's Jewish soldiers118Ch. 10A gray zone among the field gray men : confusion in the discrimination against homosexuals in the Wehrmacht127Ch. 11Pleasure and evil : Christianity and the sexualization of Holocaust memory147Ch. 12The gender of good and evil : women and Holocaust memory165Ch. 13Hitler's "garden of Eden" in Ukraine : Nazi colonialism, Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust, 1941-1944185Ch. 14Life and death in the "gray zone" of Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe : the unknown, the ambiguous, and the disappeared205Ch. 15"Almost-camps" in Paris : the difficult description of three annexes of Drancy - Austerlitz, Levitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944222Ch. 16Alternate Holocausts and the mistrust of memory240Ch. 17Laughter and heartache : the functions of humor in Holocaust tragedy252Ch. 18The Holocaust in popular culture : master-narrative and counter-narratives in the gray zone270Ch. 19The grey zone : the cinema of choiceless choices286Ch. 20Gray into black : the case of Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski299Ch. 21Catalyzing fascism : academic science in national socialist Germany and afterward311Ch. 22Postwar justice and the treatment of Nazi assets325Ch. 23The gray zones of Holocaust restitution : American justice and Holocaust morality339Ch. 24The creation of ethical "gray zones" in the German Protestant church : reflections on the historical quest for ethical clarity360Ch. 25Gray-zoned ethics : morality's double binds during and after the Holocaust372Epilogue : an intense wish to understand390
