Confronting the Holocaust : a mandate for the 21st century / edited by G. Jan Colijn, Marcia Sachs Littell.

A selection of papers and plenary addresses presented at the 26th annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Minneapolis, Mar. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.

The trauma of the Holocaust : some historical perspectives / Yehuda Bauer -- The roots of antigypsyism : to the Holocaust and after / Ian Hancock -- Uniqueness and universality in the Holocaust : the need for a new language / John T. Pawlikowski -- "These people are undesirable" : Australian response to refugees from Nazism before World War II / Paul R. Bartrop -- "Liberal democracy, the end of history" or Carl Schmitt redivivus? : the need for an anamnestic culture for Germany after Auschwitz / Jürgen Manemann -- Auschwitz or how good people can do evil : an ethical interpretation of the perpetrators and the victims of the Holocaust in light of the French thinker Tzvetan Todorov / Didier Pollefeyt -- Holocaust denial and the media : misunderstanding the nature of truth / Deborah Lipstadt -- Post-Holocaust Jewish German dialogue face to face / Hubert Locke, Abraham Peck and Gottfried Wagner -- The crystal of memory or the smoke of remembrance? / Elisabeth Maxwell -- Camp music and camp songs : Szymon Laks and Aleksander Kulisiewicz / David H. Hirsch.