The Holocaust : problems and perspectives of interpretation / edited by Donald L. Niewyk.

Includes tables of estimated Jewish and Gypsy deaths during the Holocaust (p. xxiv-xxv).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-278).

Anti-semitism through the ages / Jacob Katz -- Hitler's decisive role / Ian Kershaw -- The opening act of Nazi genocide / Henry Friedlander -- The Nazi doctors / Robert Jay Lifton -- Ordinary men / Christopher R. Browning -- Hitler's willing executioners / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen -- Helpless victims / Bruno Bettelheim -- The will to survive / Terrence Des Pres -- Women's survival skills / Sybil Milton -- Gendered suffering? / Lawrence L. Langer -- Two thousand years of Jewish appeasement / Raul Hilberg -- Forms of Jewish resistance / Yehuda Bauer -- Why the Jewish councils cooperated / Isaiah Trunk -- The Poles helped persecute the Jews / Yisrael Gutman and Shmuel Krakowski -- The Poles were fellow victims / Richard C. Lukas -- Western Europeans and the Jews / Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxon -- The altruistic personality / Samuel P. and Pearl M. Oliner -- The myth of rescue / William D. Rubinstein -- The silence of Pope Pius XII / Michael Phayer -- The failure to comprehend / Walter Laqueur.