- Summary
- "Though best known as the author of the landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews, the historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg's most essential and groundbreaking writings-many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists-in a single volume. Supplemented with commentary and notes from Hilberg's longtime German editor and his biographer, it not only offers a multifaceted look at the man and the scholar, but also traces the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a diverse and vital intellectual project"-- Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Anatomie des Holocaust English
- Series
- Vermont studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust ; vol 8
Vermont studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust ; vol 8.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Hilberg, Raul, 1926-2007, author.
- Published
- New York : Berghahn, 2020
©2020
- Edition
- English-language edition
- Contents
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Introduction / Walter H. Pehle and René Schlott
Chapter 1. The Anatomy of the Holocaust
Chapter 2. German Motivations for the Destruction of the Jews
Chapter 3. The Bureaucracy of Annihilation
Chapter 4. The Significance of the Holocaust
Chapter 5. Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography
Chapter 6. Bitburg as Symbol
Chapter 7. The Ghetto as a Form of Government
Chapter 8. The Judenrat: Conscious or Unconscious "Tool"
Chapter 9. I Was Not There
Chapter 10. The Holocaust Mission: July 29 to August 12, 1979
Chapter 11. In Search of the Special Trains
Chapter 12. Working on the Holocaust
Chapter 13. The Development of Holocaust Research: A Personal Overview
Index.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Pehle, Walter H., 1941- editor.
Schlott, René, 1977- editor.
- Notes
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"Originally published in German as Anatomie des Holocaust: Essays und Erinnerungen, © S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2016"--title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Walter H. Pehle and René Schlott -- Chapter 1. The Anatomy of the Holocaust -- Chapter 2. German Motivations for the Destruction of the Jews -- Chapter 3. The Bureaucracy of Annihilation -- Chapter 4. The Significance of the Holocaust -- Chapter 5. Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography -- Chapter 6. Bitburg as Symbol -- Chapter 7. The Ghetto as a Form of Government -- Chapter 8. The Judenrat: Conscious or Unconscious "Tool" -- Chapter 9. I Was Not There -- Chapter 10. The Holocaust Mission: July 29 to August 12, 1979 -- Chapter 11. In Search of the Special Trains -- Chapter 12. Working on the Holocaust -- Chapter 13. The Development of Holocaust Research: A Personal Overview -- Index.
