Holocaust : critical concepts in historical studies / edited by David Cesarani.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume I: Hitler, Nazism, and the 'Racial State' -- Part 1: Anti-semitism and racism in German society -- Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and reinterpretations of National Socialism / Omer Bartov -- Solving the "Jewish Problem": continuity and change in German antisemitism, 1871-1945 / Donald L. Niewyck -- Part 2: Hitler, Nazism, and the 'racial state' -- The genesis of the "Final Solution" from the spirit of science / Detlev. J. K. Peukert -- Psychiatry, German society and the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme / Michael Burleigh -- Gypsies and Jews under the Nazis / Guenter Lewy -- Ideological legitimization and political practice of the leadership of the National Socialist secret police / Ulrich Herbert -- 'Working towards the Fuhrer': reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship / Ian Kershaw -- Hitler and the pogrom of November 9-10, 1938 / Stefan Kley -- Part 3 Anti-Jewish policy and German Jewish responses -- Before the "Final Solution": the Judenpolitik of the SD, 1935-1938 / Michael Wildt -- The development of Nazi policy towards the German-Jewish "Mischlinge" 1933-1945 / Jeremy Noakes -- The German Council of Municipalities (Deutscher Gemeindetag) and the coordination of anti-Jewish local politics in the Nazi state / Wolf Gruner -- Catholics, Protestants, and Christian antisemitism in Nazi Germany / Doris L. Bergen -- Jewish self-defense under the constraints of National Socialism: the final years of the Centralverein / Daniel Fraenkel -- Keeping calm and weathering the storm: Jewish women's responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Marion Kaplan -- --

Volume II: From the persecution of the Jews to mass murder -- Part l: The despoliation and destruction of German and Austrian Jewry -- The beneficiaries of "Aryanization": Hamburg as a case study / Frank Bajohr -- Expediting expropriation and expulsion: the impact of the "Vienna Model" on anti-Jewish policies in Nazi Germany, 1938 / Hans Safrian -- Forced labour of German Jews in Nazi Germany / Konrad Kwiet -- Poverty and persecution: The Reichsvereinigung, the Jewish population, and anti-Jewish policy in the Nazi state, 1939-1945 / Wolf Gruner -- In the shadow of Auschwitz. The murder of the Jews of East Upper Silesia / Sybille Steinbacher -- Part 2: The Nazi assault on the Jews of Poland -- The economics of the Final Solution: a case study from the Generalgouvernement / Gotz Aly and Susanne Helm -- The origins of "Operation Reinhard": the decision-making process for the mass murder of the Jews in the Generalgouvernement / Bogdan Musial -- Jewish workers in Poland. Self-maintenance, exploitation, destruction / Christopher Browning -- Part 3: Local initiatives, 'ethnic cleansing', and regional genocides -- The extermination of the Jews in Serbia / Walter Manoschek -- The war and the killing of the Lithuanian Jews / Christoph Dieckmann -- German economic interests, occupation policy, and the murder of the Jews in Belorussia, 1941/43 / Christian Gerlach -- Improvised genocide? The emergence of the 'Final Solution' in the 'Warthegau' / Ian Kershaw -- From "ethnic cleansing" to genocide to the "Final Solution": the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, 1939-1941 / Christopher Browning -- --

Volume III: The 'Final Solution' -- Part l: Central decisions for a European-wide genocide against the Jews -- Forced emigration, war, deportation and Holocaust / Gotz Aly and Susanne Helm -- Two decisions concerning the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question": deportations to Lodz and mass murder in Chelmno / Peter Witte -- The Wannsee Conference, the fate of German Jews, and Hitler's decision in principle to exterminate all European Jews / Christian Gerlach -- The Wannsee Conference in the development of the 'Final Solution' / Peter Longerich -- Nazi policy: decisions for the Final Solution / Christopher Browning -- Part 2: Implementing genocide: individuals and agencies -- Killing fields. The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941-1942 / Hannes Heer -- What about the "ordinary men"? The German order police and the Holocaust in the occupied Soviet Union / Jurgen Matthaus -- Malice in action / Yaacov Lozowick -- The German military command in Paris and the deportation of the French Jews / Ulrich Herbert -- A public enterprise in the service of mass murder: the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Holocaust / Alfred C. Mierzejewski -- Part 3: Killing fields, death camps -- The murder of Jews in the General Government / Dieter Pohl -- Anti-Jewish policy and the murder of the Jews in the district of Galicia 1941/42 / Thomas Sandkuhler -- Belzec - the 'Forgotten' death camp / Robin O'Neil -- The number of victims / Franciszek Piper -- Part 4: The profits of genocide: plunder and exploitation -- State policy and corporate involvement in the Holocaust / Peter Hayes -- Plunder of Jewish property in the Nazi-occupied areas of the Soviet Union / Yitzhak Arad -- The banality of evil reconsidered: SS mid-level managers of extermination through work / Michael Thad Allen -- Part 5: Allies and collaborators in genocide -- The Holocaust in Romania: the lasi Pogrom of June 1941 / Radu Ioanid -- The German Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft and the 'Second Wave' of Jewish killings in the occupied Ukraine: German policing at the local level in the Zhitomir region,1941-1944 / Martin C. Dean -- The Amsterdam police and the persecution of the Jews / Guus Meershoek -- "The exception of Salonika": bystanders and collaborators in Northern Greece / Andrew Apostolou -- --

Volume IV: Jewish confrontations with persecution and mass murder -- Part 1: Jewish reactions to Nazi terror: flight, accommodation, defiance -- Jewish leadership and Jewish resistance / Arnold Paucker and Konrad Kwiet -- The death of Adam Czerniakow and Janusz Korczak's last journey / Jerzy Lewinski -- How the Jewish police in the Kovno ghetto saw itself / Dov Levin -- The demography of Jews in hiding in Warsaw, 1943-1945 / Gunnar S. Paulsson -- Escape and evacuation of Soviet Jews at the time of the Nazi invasion: policies and realities / Mordechai Altshuler -- From underground to armed struggle: the resistance movement in the Bialystok ghetto / Sarah Bender -- Life in the ghettos of Transnistria / Dalia Ofer -- Part 2: Jewish women, children, and the family in the face of genocide -- Cohesion and rupture: the Jewish family in East European ghettos during the Holocaust / Dalia Ofer -- The status and plight of women in the Lodz ghetto / Michal Unger -- Women in the forced-labour camps / Felicja Karay -- Part 3: The response of Jews in the 'free world' -- Was there communal failure among American Jews? / Henry Feingold -- On a mission against all odds: Samuel Zygelbojm in London (April 1942-May 1943) / Daniel Blatman -- Enmity, indifference or cooperation: the Allies and Yishuv's rescue activists / Dalia Ofer -- --

Volume V: Responses to the persecution and mass murder of the Jews -- Part 1: Responses inside Nazi-dominated Europe -- The Vatican on racism and antisemitism, 1938-39: a new look at a might-have-been / Michael R. Marrus -- Beyond condemnation, apologetics and apologies: on the complexity of Polish behavior toward the Jews during the Second World War / Antony Polonsky -- The Soviet Partisan movement and the Holocaust / Kenneth Slepyan -- The 'bridge over the Øresund': the historiography on the expulsion of the Jews from Nazi-occupied Denmark -- Gunnar S. Paulsson -- Denmark: a light in the darkness of the Holocaust? A reply to Gunnar S. Paulsson / Hans Kirchhoff -- Part 2: The responses of the Allied powers -- The Allies and the Holocaust / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Early news of the Holocaust from Poland / Dariusz Stola -- Auschwitz partially decoded / Richard Breitman -- The Royal Air Force and the bombing of Auschwitz: First deliberations, January 1941 / Edward B. Westermann -- Could the Allies have bombed Auschwitz-Birkenau? / Stuart G. Erdheim -- Different worlds. British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second World War / Tony Kushner -- Constructing Allied humanitarian policy / Meredith Hindley -- Broadcasting the massacres: an analysis of the BBC's contemporary coverage of the Holocaust / Jeremy D. Harris -- Part 3: The responses of neutral and non-belligerent countries -- Swiss refugee policy, 1933-45 / Georg Kreis -- Portugal, the consuls and the Jewish refugees, 1938-1941 / Avraham Milgram -- 'The war is over - now you can go home!' Jewish refugees and the Swedish labour market in the shadow of the Holocaust Sven Nordlund -- Bureaucracy, resistance, and the Holocaust. Understanding the success of Swedish diplomacy in Budapest, 1944-1945 / Paul A. Levine -- --

Volume VI: The end of the 'final solution' and its aftermaths -- Part 1: The final frenzy, liquidation of the camps, and the death marches -- Ghettoization and the Holocaust: Budapest 1944 / Tim Cole and Graham Smith -- The end of the "Final Solution"? Nazi plans to ransom Jews in 1944 / Richard Breitman and Shlomo Aronson -- The death marches, January-May 1945: who was responsible for what? / Daniel Blatman -- Part 2: Retribution -- British policy towards German crimes against German Jews, 1939-1945 / Priscilla Dale Jones -- Britain and the establishment of the United Nations War Crimes Commission / Arieh Kochavi -- The Holocaust at Nuremberg / Michael R. Marrus -- Part 3: The treatment of the survivors -- A cold reception: Holocaust survivors in the Netherlands and their return / Dienke Hondius -- Victims of genocide and national memory: Belgium, France and the Netherlands, 1945-1965 / Pieter Lagrou -- Soviet reactions to the Holocaust, 1945-1991 / Zvi Gitelman -- Part 4: Interpretation, historiography, controversy -- The extermination of the European Jews in historiography: fifty years later / Saul Friedlander -- Gender and family studies of the Holocaust: a historiographical overview / Judith Tydor Baumel -- Surviving memory: truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony / Mark Roseman -- Understanding the Jewish dimension of the Holocaust / Dan Michman -- The controversy that isn't: the debate over Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners in comparative perspective / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld -- The politics of uniqueness: reflections on the recent polemical turn in Holocaust and genocide scholarship / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.