Holocaust: The Third Reich & the Jews, 2nd edition

By David Engel
February 2013
Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781408249949
155 pages, Illustrated
$42.50 Paper Original

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Fully revised and updated, this second edition includes:

· A much expanded selection of original documents, many never before anthologised in English

· Added treatment of the role of non-Germans in the Holocaust and the geographical variations in Jewish response

· Additional consideration of the much-debated nexus between the Holocaust and modernity

· A new section on how 'the Holocaust' developed as a distinct historical topic

· Useful and informative Chronology, Who’s Who and Glossary

David Engel’s book is a taut, compact narration that appeals to the intellect as much, if not more, than to the emotions. It is sure to be welcomed by students in departments of History, Politics and European Studies as well as by anyone trying to get to grips with this complex and far-reaching subject for the first time.

 

Contents:

CONTENTS

Introduction to the Series (not included)

Note on Place Names

List of Maps

List of Plates (not included)

Chronology

Who's Who

Glossary

Maps

PART ONE: ANALYSIS

1 STUDYING THE HOLOCAUST

Holocaust and Genocide

Who Is Right?

Studying the Holocaust Historically

2 THE JEWS

Jewish Origins

The Jews in Christian Europe

In Modern Times

3 HITLER, NAZIS, GERMANS, AND JEWS

The Jews in Hitler's World View

Jews in the Ideology and Programme of Nazism

Jews in German Public Opinion

True Believers and World War I

Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans?

4 1933-41¯A TWISTED ROAD?

A Diabolical Plot of the Work of 'Only Men'?

The State of Documentation

A Step-by-Step Process?

Jewish Policy and Global Strategy

5 RESPONDING TO PERSECUTION

Perceiving the Threat

To Leave or Not to Leave?

Communal Leadership: Coping and Resisting

Zionism, German Jewry, and World Jewry

External Obstacles to Emigration

6 THE TRANSITION TO KILLING

Why Begin Killing?

The Means of Murder

Organizing the Transports

7 RESPONDING TO MURDER

Information and Imagination

Communal Responsibility and Strategies for Survival

The Unofficial Community and Resistance

Local Non-Jewish Leaders and Populations: Opposition and Complicity

Beyond the Nazi Realm

8 HUMANITY, MODERNITY, AND THE HOLOCAUST

PART TWO: DOCUMENTS

Further Reading

References

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