Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era

Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era
Title Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era PDF eBook
Author Tanja Schult
Publisher Springer
Pages 317
Release 2015-07-28
Genre History
ISBN 1137530421

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This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.

Ordinary People as Mass Murderers

Ordinary People as Mass Murderers
Title Ordinary People as Mass Murderers PDF eBook
Author O. Jensen
Publisher Springer
Pages 241
Release 2008-11-03
Genre History
ISBN 0230583563

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Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers?

Representing Auschwitz

Representing Auschwitz
Title Representing Auschwitz PDF eBook
Author N. Chare
Publisher Springer
Pages 462
Release 2013-09-19
Genre History
ISBN 1137297697

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This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The highly literary accounts pose a fundamental challenge to the idea the Holocaust cannot be attested to.

A Hero’s Many Faces

A Hero’s Many Faces
Title A Hero’s Many Faces PDF eBook
Author T. Schult
Publisher Springer
Pages 443
Release 2009-04-08
Genre History
ISBN 0230236995

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Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents commemorate the man.

Finland's Holocaust

Finland's Holocaust
Title Finland's Holocaust PDF eBook
Author S. Muir
Publisher Springer
Pages 279
Release 2013-06-13
Genre History
ISBN 1137302658

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Finland's Holocaust considers antisemitism and the figure of the Holocaust in today's Finland. Taking up a range of issues - from cultural history, folklore, and sports, to the interpretation of military and national history - this collection examines how the writing of history has engaged and evaded the figure of the Holocaust.

Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare

Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare
Title Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare PDF eBook
Author H. Pieper
Publisher Springer
Pages 262
Release 2014-10-20
Genre History
ISBN 1137456337

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The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.

Britain and the Holocaust

Britain and the Holocaust
Title Britain and the Holocaust PDF eBook
Author Caroline Sharples
Publisher Springer
Pages 253
Release 2013-11-19
Genre History
ISBN 1137350776

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How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of the twenty-first century.