"The Germans and the Final Solution The Germans and the Final Solution stand as the fullest assessment to date of the attitudes of the German public to the Nazi policy of antisemitism and its genocidal conclusion. David Bankiera s pathbreaking work will be widely read by scholars and students of contemporary European Jewish history and the history of Nazi Germany. Full description"
The Germans and the Final Solution(1st Edition) Public Opinion Under Nazism (Jewish Society and Culture) by DavidBankier Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1992 by Blackwell Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-631-17968-9, ISBN: 0-631-17968-2
"This study engages with one of the most controversial of questions regarding Hitler's "Final Solution": Namely, to what degree did the German public actively assent to the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime? David Bankier addresses this question with regard to the German public as a whole, drawing upon a range of documents and sources, including the files of the Nazi security services, diplomatic and allied intelligence materials, th ..."
"From inside dust jacket: Since the publication of Daniel Goldhagen's controversial Hitler's Willing Executioners there has been a renewed and vigorous debate on how deep and widespread antisemitism was in German society. This volume brings together some of the best known scholars in the field to analyze, on the basis of new evidence from East European archives, not only Nazi anti-Jewish policies but also the attitudes of Germany's elite ..."
"In recent years scholars and researchers have turned their attention to the attitudes of ordinary men [and women]A" during the period of the persecution of the Jews in occupied Europe. This comprehensive work addresses the disturbing question of how people reacted when their neighbours were ostracized, humiliated, deported and later murdered. On the basis of new archival material the authors also discuss the attitudes and actions--or l ..."
"As the war ended, masses of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were traveling the roads of a decimated Europe. They had been hiding or imprisoned in concentration camps and were now free to return to their countries of origin, but they did not know what awaited them. Not only were their families and communities destroyed, but they were now forced to live together with the European perpetrators and bystanders.
The articles in this volume ..."
"Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), a Jewish Dutch art dealer, took over his father’s gallery in 1919 and quickly made his presence felt. Introducing a more international thrust to the gallery and demonstrating a keen business acumen, Goudstikker became one of the most successful art dealers and tastemakers in Amsterdam between the Wars. He entertained lavishly and highlighted his wares in his country homes and gallery while also develop ..."
"102 Historians can appropriately refer to the Trawniki men as foot soldiers of the
Final Solution in the Government General, indeed as the front line troops of
Operation Reinhard. It is from the information in the categories of documents
described above that key elements of their grim stories can be told for the first
time. 5 With reference to the euphemistic treatment of the deportations,. * The
opinions expressed here in are excl ..."
"German Experiences of the Cold War Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Laucht,
Andrew Plowman ... the rise of the techno-thriller in films like The Net (Irwin
Winkler, 1995) or the television series The Last Enemy (Iain B. MacDonald, 2008)
. ... starring Matt Damon as an amnesiac ex-CIA assassin, the Berlin locations
such as Alexanderplatz function not for any specific ... Social Sciences and
History Conference at the Humboldt University t ..."
"When and how did the Allies find out about the Holocaust, and what were the intelligence sources that delivered the information? This fundamental collection of research studies digs deeply into that sensitive topic and sheds new light on the realities of code-breaking and understanding of what was happening in Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War. Documents with their sources have been assembled from many previously closed a ..."
Holocaust and Justice Representation and Historiography of the Holocaust in Post-War Trials by DavidBankier, Dan Mikhman Hardcover, 343 Pages, Published 2011 by Yad Vashem Pubns ISBN-13: 978-965-308-353-0, ISBN: 965-308-353-8
"The Holocaust was not a major issue in the thirteen Nuremberg trials conducted in Germany between 1945-1949 by the International Military Tribunal. Can the word "justice" be used to refer to trials that did not fully recognize the centrality of the Holocaust? What was the background of the postwar war crimes trials, and what was their impact on society and collective memory? How did they shape international law? This book brings togeth ..."
"A la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les gouvernements américain et britannique n'ont pas rendu publiques les informations secrètes qu'ils détenaient sur la politique d'extermination nazie. Bien que ces éléments aient pu avoir leur importance lors des procès des criminels nazis, les intérêts nationaux prévalaient pendant la guerre froide. Or depuis 1997, plus de 8 millions de documents secrets ont été déclassifiés et permettent de ré ..."
"Lithuania ranks among the countries with the largest percentage of Jewish Holocaust victims. Of the approximately quarter of a million Jews who lived within its borders at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, only some eight thousand were fortunate enough to see the end of the Nazi occupation.The Jews who lived in the Lithuanian provinces were totally annihilated during the first few months of the war. The intensity of th ..."
"Dilemmas, silence, active rescue, and passivity are words often associated with Pius XII. Critics emphasize the wartime Pope s failure to condemn Nazism, while defenders maintain that Vatican neutrality facilitated rescue activities by the faithful. This publication, which consists of the oral presentations of scholars gathered at Yad Vashem in March 2009 for a groundbreaking international workshop, attempts to present the current state ..."