Germany's War and the Holocaust by Omer Bartov

Author:Omer Bartov [Bartov, Omer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Holocaust, Military, World War II, Europe, Germany
ISBN: 9780801468810
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-05-21T22:25:43+00:00

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1 Compare P. Longerich, Politik der Vernichtung: Eine Gesamtdarstellung der nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgung (Munich, 1998) and R. Ogorreck, Die Einsatzgruppen und die “Genesis der Endlösung” (Berlin, 1996), to L. Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry (New York, 1990), and L. L. Langer, Preempting the Holocaust (New Haven, 1998).

2 Colonial destruction of identity in F. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York, 1963), and S. Lindqvist, “Exterminate All the Brutes” (New York, 1996); creation of national identity in G. Eley and R G. Suny, Becoming National: A Reader (New York, 1996).

3 S. Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol. 1 (New York, 1997), 67–68, has attempted this for the 1930s. M. Gilbert, The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War (New York, 1985), focuses on the victims; R. Hilberg, The Destructitm of the European jews, 3 vols., rev. ed. (New York, 1985), is on the perpetrators.

4 D. Pohl, Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1941–1944: Organisation und Durchführung eines staatlichen Massenverbrechens (Munich, 1996), 15, 410.

5 Some Jewish historians have confronted collaboration: Y. Gutman, ed., Patterns of Jewish leadership in Nazi Europe 1933–1945 (Jerusalem, 1979); in Hebrew. I. Trunk, Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation, 2d ed. (Lincoln, Neb., 1996). But German historian Martin Broszat, “A Plea for the Historicization of National Socialism,” in Reworking the Past, ed. P. Baldwin (Boston, 1990), 78, argues that the narrative of Nazism undermines “the pleasure of narration,” and the historiographical introduction to National Socialist Extermination Policies: Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies, ed. U. Herbert(New York, 2000), 1–52, never even raises the question of a double narrative.

6 W. Sofsky, The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp (Princeton, 1997), orig. pub. as Die Ordnung des Terrors. Das Konzentrationslager (Frankfurt/M., 1993). Earlier attempts include E. Kogon, The Theory and Practice of Hell (New York, 1950); H. G. Adler, “Gedanken zu einer Soziologie des Konzentrationslagers,” in Adler, Die Erfahrung der Ohnmacht (Frankfurt/M., 1964), 210–26; P. Pingel, Häftlinge unter SS-Herrschaft. Widerstand, Selbstbehauptung und Vernichtung im Konzentrationslager (Hamburg, 1978). See now K. Orth, Das System der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager: Eine politische Organisationsgeschichte (Hamburg, 1999) and U. Herbert, K. Orth, and C. Dieckmann, eds., Die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager: Entwicklung und Struktur, 2 vols. (GÔttingen, 1998).

7 See also G. M. Kren and L. Rappoport, The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior, rev. ed. (New York, 1994).

8 See above, chap. 3, note 2, and I. Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship, 3d ed. (London, 1993), chap. 5.

9 Sofsky, Terror, 162–63.

10 For a demystification of the heroic communist narrative of anti-fascism, see L. Niethammer, ed., Der “gesäuberte” Antifaschismus. Die SED und the roten Kapos von Buchenwald. Dokumente (Berlin, 1994.

11 Two exemplary memoirs on solidarity and exclusion among communist inmates are J. Semprun, Literature or Life (New York, 1997) and. M. Buber-Neumann, Milena (New York, 1988).

12 Sofsky, Terror, 142.

13 Ibid., 223–40.

14 Ibid., 148–49.

15 H. Mommsen, “The Realization of the Unthinkable: The ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Question’ in the Third Reich,” in H. Mommsen, From Weimar to Auschwitz (Princeton, 1991) and M.

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