The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
This volume in the Problems in European Civilization series features a collection of secondary-source essays focusing on aspects of the Holocaust. The essays in this book debate the origins of the Holocaust, the motivations of the killers, the experience of the victims, and the various possibilities for intervention or rescue.
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The essays in this book debate the origins of the Holocaust, the motivations of the killers, the experience of the victims, and the various possibilities for intervention or rescue.
Preface ixEditor's Preface to Instructors xiEditor's Preface to Students xvChronology of Events xixGlossary xxiReference Map: Poland, 1939-1945, with Locations of Concentration and Extermination Camps xxiiiTables: Estimated Jewish and Gypsy Deaths in the Holocaust xxivIntroduction 1I Origins of the Holocaust 9Anti-Semitism Through the Ages John Weiss 12Hitler's Decisive Role Ian Kershaw 23The Opening Act of Nazi Genocide Henry Friedlander 38II The Motivations of the Killers 57The Nazi Doctors Robert Jay Lifton 60Hitler's Army Omer Bartov 76"Ordinary Men" Christopher R. Browning 84III The Victims' Experiences 101Helpless Victims Bruno Bettelheim 104The Will to Survive Terrence Des Pres 109The Gray Zone Primo Levi 115Women and the Holocaust Zoë Vania Waxman 128IV The Problem of Jewish Resistance 141Two Thousand Years of Jewish Appeasement Raul Hilberg 144Forms of Jewish Resistance Yehuda Bauer 150Why the Jewish Councils Cooperated Dan Diner 165V Bystander Reactions 177The Poles Helped Persecute the Jews Yisrael Gutman Shmuel Krakowski 180The Poles Were Fellow Victims Richard C. Lukas 192 Western Europeans and the Jews Michael R. Marrus Robert O. Paxton 206Righteous Gentiles Nechama Tec 217VI Possibilities of Rescue 225The Myth of Rescue William D, Rubinstein 228The Silence of Pope Pius XII Michael Phayer 240The Failure to Comprehend Walter Laqueur 252Suggestions for Additional Reading 267
