| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 182 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Examines the historical, philosophical, and moral issues related to the Holocaust. Includes source documents, case studies, a chronology, and more. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Part PART I READINGS AND EXERCISES -- chapter 1 The Holocaust--the futility of definition? -- chapter 2 Obedience to authority -- chapter 3 Jewish powerlessness and choicelessness -- chapter 4 The moral responsibility of 'ordinary' Germans -- chapter 5 Six million accusers -- chapter 6 Euphemisms of death: Interpreting a primary source document on the Holocaust -- chapter 7 Yossel Rakover's appeal to God (an excerpt) -- chapter 8 The power of indifference -- part PART II SELECTED KEY DOCUMENTS -- chapter 1 'The Racists' Ten Commandments' -- chapter 2 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- chapter 3 The Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917) -- chapter 4 Adolf Hitler: A Letter on the Jewish Question -- chapter 5 The 25-point programme of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party -- chapter 6 The Nuremberg Laws -- chapter 7 An eyewitness response to Kristallnacht -- chapter 8 German Foreign Ministry memorandum on 'The Jewish Question', 25 January 1939 -- chapter 9 Hitler threatens Jews with annihilation -- chapter 10 Reinhard Heydrich's Order, 21 September 1939 -- chapter 11 The Warsaw Ghetto: The Jewish response -- chapter 12 The Wannsee Conference -- chapter 13 The Einsatzgruppen death squads: An eyewitness account -- chapter 14 Appeal to the outside world -- chapter 15 Inside the mind of a perpetrator -- chapter 16 The victims: Defiant responses -- chapter 17 Spiritual resistance -- chapter 18 The psychology of the victim -- chapter 19 Jewish disbelief at reports of mass annihilation -- chapter PART III GENOCIDE IN THE MODERN ERA -- part PART IV QUESTIONS, THEMES AND READING LISTS -- chapter 1 Historical background and context -- chapter 2 The Holocaust: A history -- chapter 3 Themes, issues and protagonists -- chapter PART V History of the Holocaust: A chronological outline (1933-45) -- chapter PART VI REFERENCE SECTIONS. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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| Chronological Term |
1939-1945
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Landau, Ronnie S., 1948- Studying the Holocaust. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 0415161436 (DLC) 97051127 (OCoLC)38105953 |
| ISBN |
0203056434 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203056431 (electronic bk.) |
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9780415161435 |
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0415161436 |
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9780415161442 |
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0415161444 |
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