- Summary
- "This book offers a new analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, its origins, and its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. With the Holocaust developing like a sort of doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found themselves between the hammer and various anvils, each of which worked according to the logic created by the Nazis that dictated the behavior of other parties and the relations between them before and during the Holocaust. The interplay between the various parties contributed to the victims' doom first by preventing help and later preventing rescue. These help and rescue efforts proved mainly self-defeating, and various legacies about them emerged during the Holocaust and are heatedly debated even today."--Jacket.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Aronson, Shlomo, 1936-
- Published
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Locale
- Germany
United States
Allemagne
États-Unis
- Contents
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The making of the multiple trap
The rescue debate, the macro picture and the intelligence services
The self-defeating mechanism of the rescue efforts
The Brand-Grosz missions within the larger picture of the war and their ramifications
The end of the final solution: back to hostage-taking tactics.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-359) and index.
The making of the multiple trap -- The rescue debate, the macro picture and the intelligence services -- The self-defeating mechanism of the rescue efforts -- The Brand-Grosz missions within the larger picture of the war and their ramifications -- The end of the final solution: back to hostage-taking tactics.
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