The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
£120.00
GBPThis ambitious pan-European overview explores the most significant causal factors, political developments, and societal forces that contributed to the perpetration of the Holocaust. Drawing on wide-ranging current scholarly expertise, this volume seeks to explain the genocidal scope and European dimensions of the crimes committed by Nazi Germany and its allies, collaborators, and facilitators across the continent during the war. It broadens the range of Holocaust research beyond the German initiators and organizers, however central these remain. Contributions look beyond simple or monocausal explanations in terms of, for example, Hitler's role or ideological antisemitism. Combining in-depth studies of specific locations and developments with overviews of thematic issues and wider questions, the second volume of the Cambridge History of the Holocaust offers concise analyses of the complex developments, varied interests, and interrelated events that were rooted in previous history and continue to influence the present within and beyond Europe. Cumulatively, this book presents a complex, multifaceted approach to understanding the uneven unfolding and escalation of the Holocaust.
- Utilises a pan-European scope to explore the structure and processes of Holocaust perpetration across the continent
- Reflects recent shifts in theoretical approach, discussing the current research into Holocaust perpetration alongside major findings and ongoing challenges
- Individual contributions present concise, empirically grounded overviews of key Holocaust topics
Product details
June 2025Hardback
9781108839389
608 pages
235 × 162 × 33 mm
1.07kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Structures, Players, and Processes:
- 1. Hitler, the Nazi leadership and the evolution of the final solution Christopher Browning
- 2. The Nazi apparatus of terror: SS, SA, police Jochen Böhler
- 3. Bystanders, collaboration and complicity
- 4. Bystanders, collaboration and complicity Elizabeth Harvey
- 5. The German economy and the exploitation and extermination of the Jews Susanne Heim
- 6. The Wehrmacht, its allies, and 'partisan threats' Ben Shepherd
- 7. Gender and perpetration Elissa Mailänder
- 8. Perpetrator depictions of violence and the obliteration of evidence Valerie Hébert
- 9. Discourses, knowledge, and disbelief in the Reich and beyond Frank Bajohr and Felix Berge
- 10. 'Euthanasia', 'Germanization', and the beginnings of the Holocaust, 1939–1941 Isabel Heinemann
- 11. The personnel and functioning of the extermination camps Sara Berger and Donald Bloxham
- Part II. Times and Places:
- 12. Ghettos and other confined spaces of Jewish life in Nazi-dominated Europe Dan Michmann
- 13. German and local violence in the Balkans Emil Kerenji
- 14. Forced migration, flight and refuge in the West Miriam Rürup
- 15. 'War of annihilation' in the occupied Soviet Union, 1941–1942 Edward Westermann
- 16. Neighbors and killing in the East Tomasz Frydel
- 17. 'Aktion Reinhardt' and the murder of the polish Jews Stephan Lehnstaedt
- 18. Collaboration in German-dominated western Europe Peter Romijn
- 19. Deportations from central and western Europe Birthe Kundrus and Jan Kreutz
- 20. Remaining Jewish spaces and their liquidation, 1942–1944 Tatjana Tönsmeyer
- 21. 'Operation Höss:' Auschwitz and the murder of the Hungarian Jews Gábor Kádár and Zoltán Vági
- 22. Death marches of camp inmates and German atrocities at the war's end Daniel Blatman
- 23. German agency and the Holocaust as a European project Jürgen Matthäus and Mary Fulbrook.
