- Summary
- "The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, there was extensive focus on these organisations' controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the Jews they were ostensibly representing. As a result, they have chiefly been remembered as forms of collaboration. Using a wide range of sources including personal testimonies, diaries, administrative documents and trial records, Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that the nature of the Nazi regime, and its outlook on these bodies, was far more complex. She sets the conduct of the Councils' leaders in their prewar and wartime social and situational contexts and provides a thorough understanding of their personal contacts with the Germans and clandestine organisations. Between Community and Collaboration reveals what German intentions with these organisations were during the course of the occupation, and allows for a deeper understanding of the different ways in which the Holocaust unfolded in each of these countries."-- Provided by publisher
- Series
- Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Vastenhout, Laurien, author.
- Published
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
©2022
- Locale
- Europe, Western
Belgium
France
Netherlands
Europe de l'Ouest
Belgique
Pays-Bas
Western Europe
- Contents
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Introduction
Disrupted Communities? Jewish Leadership and Communal Representation to 1941
Institutional Rivalry and Improvisation: The Establishment of 'Jewish Councils' in 1941
Leadership of the 'Councils': Continuation or Discontinuation with Pre-war Structures?
Optimism and Frustration: German Perspectives
Between Legality and Illegality: Cloaking and Resistance
Epilogue: Looking Back on the 'Jewish Councils'
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index.
Introduction -- Disrupted Communities? Jewish Leadership and Communal Representation to 1941 -- Institutional Rivalry and Improvisation: The Establishment of 'Jewish Councils' in 1941 -- Leadership of the 'Councils': Continuation or Discontinuation with Pre-war Structures? -- Optimism and Frustration: German Perspectives -- Between Legality and Illegality: Cloaking and Resistance -- Epilogue: Looking Back on the 'Jewish Councils'
