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Lulu.com Runways to Freedom
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Lulu.com Voices of the Persecuted 19391945
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Planning in Wartime Aircraft Production in Britain Germany and the USA St Antonys
Book SynopsisThe first study of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, this book examines the war-time policy and operation of the planning department. Topics covered include the organization of the department, production planning and specific programmes.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Twenty Years Crisis 19191939
Book SynopsisPart One: The Science of International Politics.- Part Two: The International Crisis.- Part Three: Politics, Power and Morality.- Power Four: Laws and Change.Table of Contentsi. Preface; Michael Coxii. Acknowledgements; Michael Coxiii. Introduction; Michael Coxiv. A Brief Guide to the Writings of E.H. Carrv. A guide to the Secondary Literature on E.H Carrvi. From the First to the Second Edition of The Twenty Years’ Crisis: A Case of Self-censorship?vii. Glossary of Namesviii. Chronology of EventsOriginal content (E.H. Carr):ix. Preface 1981x. Preface 1945xi. Preface 1939PART ONE: THE SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS1. The Beginning of a Science2. Utopia and RealityPART TWO: THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS3. The Utopian Background4. The Harmony of Interests5. The Realist Critique6. The Limitations of RealismPART THREE: POLITICS, POWER AND MORALITY7. The Nature of Politics8. Power in International Politics9. Morality in International PoliticsPART FOUR: LAW AND CHANGE10. The Foundations of Law11. The Sanctity of Treaties12. The Judicial Settlement of International Disputes13. Peaceful ChangeCONCLUSION14. The Prospects of a New International OrderIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Holocaust History and the Readings of KaTzetnik
Book SynopsisAnnette F. Timm is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin (2010).Trade Review[The book] makes critical strides in generating a new, sophisticated conversation about Ka-Tzetnik’s life and work for scholars of literature, sexuality, and the Holocaust. * History: Reviews of New Books *This volume is a valuable and timely reassessment of Ka-Tzetnik’s work and reputation in the context of current debates in Holocaust studies. * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *A signal achievement in Holocaust studies, this is the first book of essays in English devoted to writer Ka-Tzetnik, also known as Yehiel De-Nur or Dinur, who was an Auschwitz survivor … Written by scholars at universities in the US, Canada, Germany, Austria, Israel, and Italy, the essays (which emanate from a 2013 conference on Ka-Tzetnik) provide invaluable information … Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *This indispensable book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Ka-Tzenik. In a series of trenchant essays, it uncovers and analyzes the numerous layers of meanings that make up his oeuvre, ranging from its exploitation of camp pornography to its profound insights into the reality of what he called "the other planet". Ka-Tzenik is revealed here as a crucial voice in the ongoing attempt to represent the horrors of Nazi genocide. * Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of German Studies, Brown University, USA *A unique publication, the first of its kind in English. A link in the scholarly chain of Holocaust Studies, a study of the reception of Holocaust literature and testimonial texts in general, through the lens of Ka-Tzetnik’s oeuvre in particular. The book introduces an important dialogue to the English-speaking scholarly sphere. * Yechiel Szeintuch, Joseph & Ida Berman Professor Emeritus of Yiddish, Hebrew University, Jerusalem *This excellent, intellectually-challenging book is the first collection of essays in English devoted exclusively to the writings of Ka-Tzetnik. It successfully redraws the boundaries of Holocaust scholarship by linking in new and creative ways the topics of testimony and fiction, literature and pulp fiction, sexuality and the eroticization of the Nazi past, kitsch and global memory. * Alon Confino, Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Dilemmas of Ka-Tzetnik’s International Fame, Annette F. Timm (University of Calgary, Canada) 2. An Author as His Own Biographer - Ka-Tzetnik: A Man and a Tattooed Number, Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 3. Testimony in Holocaust Historiography, Annette F. Timm (University of Calgary, Canada) 4. The Evil Spirits of the Shoah: Ka-Tzentik’s Literary Testimony to Death and Survival in the Concentrationary Universe - Iris Milner (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 5. The Poetics of the Other Planet: Testimony and Chronotope in Ka-Tzetnik’s Piepel - Or Rogovin (Bucknell University, USA) 6. Sexual Violence in Ka-Tzetnik’s House of Dolls - Pascale Bos (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 7. The Eroticization of Witnessing: The Twofold Legacy of Ka-Tzetnik, Guido Vitiello (University of Rome, Italy) 8. Ka-Tzetnik, Primo Levi and the Muslims, Uri Cohen (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 9. How to Understand Shivitti?, Iris Roebling-Grau (Ludwig Maximillian University, Germany) 10. Beyond Boundaries: History, the Holocaust and Literature, Dirk Rupnow (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 11. Conclusion, Annette F. Timm (University of Calgary, Canada) Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions The Mass Murder of Jewish Civilians 19401942
Book SynopsisIan Rich received a PhD in History from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, where he was also Visiting Tutor.Trade ReviewThis is innovative work and strong scholarship. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *[An] important micro-analysis of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by German forces and their allies during World War II … Rich has augmented our understanding of how the 300 level police battalions functioned in Nazi-occupied Poland and Ukraine. It is an indispensable monograph for students and scholars of the Holocaust. * H-Judaic *Ian Rich provides an important and welcome addition to the scholarship on Holocaust perpetrators with his focus on the lower and middle level ranks of the German police officer corps; a lens that illuminates the key role played by these men as an “ideological vanguard” in the conduct of racial war and genocide in the Nazi East. * Edward Westermann, Professor of History, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Structure and Personnel of the Police Battalions 2. Roles and Training 3. Poland 1939-1941 4. Police Battalion 314 and the Early Massacres in Volhynia 5. Police Battalion 304 and the Large Scale Massacres of Autumn 1941 6. 1942 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Allied Occupation of Germany The Refugee Crisis Denazification and the Path to Reconstruction
Book SynopsisFrancis Graham-Dixon holds a PhD in History from Sussex University and was Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University, Germany.Trade ReviewDrawing on an impressive range of archival sources, this study broadens our understanding of the complexities of post-war stabilisation and reconstruction, and the challenges of establishing democracy in the context of military occupation. * Stephen Schroeder, German History *[A]n important contribution in the field and a very rich source for those interested in the history of the British occupation. * Camilo Erlichman, German Historical Institute London Bulletin *Francis Graham-Dixon makes excellent use of the relevant sources, and his interpretations are both nuanced and balanced. * Mark Hull, H-Net Reviews *In our age of mass uprooting and enforced migrancy, when the hardships of refugees and the ethics of humanitarian aid press ever more insistently on the boundaries of engaged democratic consciousness and feasible action, the urgency of looking carefully at earlier episodes become evident and compelling. In his searching examination of the British occupation administration of Germany after 1945, Francis Graham-Dixon provides precisely such historical guidance. * Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan, USA *Table of ContentsContents Maps and list of illustrations vii List of abbreviations ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction 3 1. Occupation Policy and German refugees: The case for revision 15 Britain's 'moral leadership' 17 Minorities and human rights 32 2. 'Germanity and Humanity' 37 'The Trouble with Germans' 37 'Transfer of the German populations': a political expedient 42 'Victors justice: the background to Hamburg 1943 and its aftermath 52 Victors' justice: Nuremburg and its aftermath 67 3. Realities of the occupation 77 A predisposition for control 77 Economic constraints 97 The British churches and voluntary organisations: political instruments 106
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Chelmno and the Holocaust A History of Hitlers First Death Camp
Book SynopsisPatrick Montague received a Fulbright Scholarship to fund his research on the history of Chelmno - this book arises from his research.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgments Foreword by Christopher R. Browning Introduction 1. Prologue The Euthanasia Program Mobile Killing Operations The Turning Point 2. Extermination: The first period (1941-1943) Establishing The Camp The Transports The Mansion: Arrival, Murder, Plunder The Forest Camp Resumption of Transports Escapes First Liquidation of The Camp 3. Extermination: The second period (1944-1945) Re-Establishing The Camp A New Killing Procedure Final Liquidation of The Camp 4. Epilogue Chelmno: 1945 to the Present The Number of Victims Conclusion and Reflection Appendices Appendix I: The Gas Vans Appendix II: The Kaszy?ski Affair Appendix III: Fates of Key Figures Notes Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Special Operations in Norway SOE and Resistance in World War II
Book SynopsisIan Herrington is a retired higher education professional who worked latterly at Hertfordshire University. This book is based on his PhD from De Montfort University.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Maps List of Illustrations CHAPTERS Introduction 1.The Formation of SOE and its Scandinavian Section: A New Strategic Tool and a Nordic Opportunity 2.SOE’s Policy in Norway 1940-1945: The Combination of Short and Long-Term Aims 3.SOE and the Norwegian Government and its Military Authorities 1940-1945: Control through Collaboration 4.SOE and the Military Resistance in Norway 1940-1945: Direction, Separation and finally Partnership 5.SOE and the other New Organisations Operating in Norway 1940-1945: A Military Alliance 6. SOE and the Regular Armed Forces Operating in Norway 1940-1945: an Unexpected Partnership 7. SOE Operations in Norway 1940-1944: The Combination of Sabotage and the Organisation of a Clandestine Army 8.SOE and the Liberation of Norway 1944-1945: Operations in the Shadow of Overlord Conclusion APPENDICES Appendix A: SOE Coup de Main Ops in Norway 1940-44: pp.257-261 Appendix B: Sea-Borne Operations Instigated by or Involving SOE along the Norwegian Seaboard 1940-1945 AppendixC: SOE Long-Term and Miscellaneous Operations in Norway 1940-1945 Bibliography
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Lulu Press Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.
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Lulu Press Serenade to the Big Bird
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AuthorHouse P.O.W. Camp 78 Zuffenhausen Germany
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Hans Frank Lebensraum and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisThe conquest of Lebensraum - living space - in Eastern Europe was the whole point of the Third Reich. This study investigates a key participant in the criminal project - Hans Frank - and how he tried to establish his corner of Hitler's racial empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hans Frank and the Biographer's Trade Fighter of Mind and Fist Spirit of the Age The Wrong Sort of Nazi Contours of Empire Hitler's Manager Murder as Social Policy Re-structuring Europe's Population Loyal Opponent Transitions Utilitarianism and the Appearance of Morality Re-living the Past Conclusion: Personality, Management and Criminal Motivation Footnotes Bibliography
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Palgrave USA The Nemesis of Power
Book SynopsisSIR JOHN W. WHEELER-BENNETT died in 1975. He was Historical Adviser to the Royal Archives, Fellow of St. Antony''s College, Oxford, UK and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Arizona. He wrote biographies of King George VI, Hindenburg and Viscount Waverley and several works on Modern German history. His three-volume autobiography is published under the titles Knaves, Fools and Heroes: In Europe Between the Wars, Special Relationships: America in Peace and War and Friends, Enemies and Sovereigns. RICHARD OVERY is Professor of Modern European History in the Department of History, King''s College London, UK.Trade Review'It is, by its very detail, a fascinating book, and by its scope a majestic book and by its scholarship an illuminating book.' - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times 'No-one...can rise from The Nemesis of Power without a keen sense of the stature, quality and equipment of [Sir John] Wheeler-Bennett as a contemporary historian.' - Lord Longford, Catholic HeraldTable of ContentsForeword; R.Overy Foreword; J.W.Wheeler-Bennett Introduction PART I: THE ARMY AND THE REICH, 1918-1926 From Spa to Kapp (November 1918-March 1920) The Seeckt Period (1920-1926) PART II: THE ARMY AND HITLER, 1920-1933 Courtship, Honeymoon and Separation (1920-1926) The Schleicher Period (1926-1933) PART III: HITLER AND THE ARMY, 1933-1945 From the Seizure of Power to the Death of Hindenburg (January 1933-1934) From the Death of Hindenburg to the Fritsch Crisis (August 1934-February 1938) From the Fritsch Crisis to the Outbreak of War (February 1938-September 1939) Victory in the East and the 'Phoney War' (September 1939-June 1940) From the Blitzkrieg to Stalingrad (July 1940-February 1943) From Stalingrad to Normandy (February 1943-July 1944) July 20, 1944 Epilogue APPENDICES Text of Draft Basic Law proposed by Popitz, Jessen and von Hassell, 1942 Documents of the 'Free Germany' Committee in Moscow, 1943 Documents of the Putsch of July 20, 1944 List of Victims of July 20 1944 Tables to Illustrate Organization of the German High Command, 1919-1945 Chronology Bibliography Index
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St Martin's Press A Terrible Revenge
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Read Books Journey To The Missouri
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Read Books Coral Comes High
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University Press of the Pacific The European Theater of Operations CrossChannel Attack
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University Press of the Pacific The Command and Staff of the Soviet Army Air Force in the Great Patriotic War 19411945 A Soviet View
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University Press of the Pacific Central Pacific Drive History of US Marine Corps Operations in World War II
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University Press of the Pacific The Approach to the Philippines
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AuthorHouse Angels Eight Normandy Air War Diary
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Trafford Publishing Earthquake McGoon A Memoir of The Forgotten War in South East Asia
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Outskirts Press The Promise Kept A story of life and death in the 91st Bomb Group H and in the Eighth Air Force in World War II
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Wildside Press Heroic Battles of World War II
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Threshold Editions FDR Goes to War
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women and Evacuation in the Second World War Femininity Domesticity and Motherhood
Book SynopsisMaggie Andrews is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Worcester, UK.Trade ReviewA path-breaking account of the women involved in various aspects of the evacuation process. The book is a rich mixture of analytical precision and personal testimony, presenting a compelling story of the women involved in each stage of evacuation: from mothers waving goodbye to their children, to the women who helped smooth their way, to the women who struggled with the challenges of bringing up other women’s children, through to the—mainly female— teachers who acted in loco parentis. * Midland History Journal *[Women and Evacuation in the Second World War] makes an important and necessary contribution to the historiography of evacuation and will undoubtedly become a key text for those interested in the social history of Britain during the Second World War. * Histoire sociale/Social History *This is an engaging account that brings to life the impact of the Second World War’s evacuation experiences on adult women and especially on mothers with empathy for its subject and a keen awareness of why these stories matter. It makes a valuable contribution to the history of women in this war and in modern Britain more generally. * Susan R. Grayzel, Professor of History, Utah State University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Myths, Memories and Memorials of Evacuation 2. Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood 1900-1939 3. Nationalising Hundreds and Thousands of Women: A Domestic Response to a National Problem 4. The Challenges of Enforced Intimacy: Looking after Evacuees 5. Mothers Encouraged to Wave Goodbye 6. Women's Organisations and Evacuation 7. Women Were Paid to Care: Teachers, Social Workers and Psychologists 8. Afterword: The Post-war Idealisation of the Family in the Wake Evacuation Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Traces of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisA multi-perspectival, broadly thematic exploration of ghettoization and deportation in Hungary as spatio-temporal processes, integrating the so-called 'spatial turn' in the humanities into Holocaust Studies. It explores ways of integrating the so-called 'spatial turn' in the humanities into Holocaust Studies.Trade ReviewThe book was awarded a special commendation by The Fraenkel Prize judges 2011.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Entering and Exiting the Ghetto; 2. Holocaust Journeys; 3. Placing the Ghetto; 4. Debating the Ghetto; 5. Exiting and Entering the Ghetto; 6. Witnessing Deportations; 7. Narrating Ghettoisation; Conclusion: The Counter Journeys of Three Eleven Year Olds.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bombing States and Peoples in Western Europe 19401945
Book SynopsisClaudia Baldoli is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Newcastle University, UK. Andrew Knapp is Professor of French Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Reading, UK.Trade ReviewThe high value [of this collection] comes from its clear division into four major chapters, which include highly empirical and analytical contributions, as well as the concise and readable introduction . . . In Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940–1945, the editors have presented a cross-section of recent research into the “air war”, which will be useful to anyone in the academic sector. -- Jörg Arnold, University of Nottingham * H-Soz-u-Kult (Bloomsbury translation) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The European Blitz; Part I: Bombing, States and Peoples; 1. Shelter Policy in Britain and Germany; 2. Life Under the Blackout in Britain and Germany; 3. Evacuation in Italy during WWII: Evolution and Management; 4. "Relieving sorrow and misfortune"? State, Charity and Ideology; Part II: Cultural Responses to Bombing; 5. The defence of artwork in Italy during WWII; 6. 'I feared/The photograph my skull would take': Bombs, Time and Photography in British and German WWII Literature; 7. Religion and Bombing in Italy, 1940-1945; 8. "Defend us from All Perils of This Night": Coping with Bombing in Britain, 1940-1945; Part III: Society under the Bombs; 9. The Direct and Indirect Effects of Allied Bombing on Civil Life in Germany, 1940-1945; 10. Post-bombing Evacuation and Social Solidarity in Wartime France; 11. Death and Survival under the Bombs: City and Country in Italy between Strategic and Tactical Bombing 1940-1944; 12. The Blitz Experience: British Society 1940-1941; Part IV Friend or Foe? Perception of the Bombers; 13. Anglo-American Air Attacks and the Rebirth of Public Opinion in Fascist Italy; 14. Muted Applause? British POWs as Observers and Victims of the Allied Bombing Campaign over Germany; 15. Criminals or Liberators? French Opinion and Allied Bombing of France, 1940-1945; 16 Newsreels and Bombing in WWII; Afterword: Bombing and the Human Rights Regime; List of Contributors; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Nazis After Hitler How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth Rowman Littlefield
Trade ReviewMcKale's book stands out, not only for the detailed review of the war crimes of innumerous Nazis, but because he also chronicles their lives in the years following WWII. The book is graphic and the memories of survivors are painful to absorb, as one prisoner describes a concentration camp like 'Dante's inferno . . . come to life,' while another recounts mass executions in the gas chamber. McKale uncovers a recurring theme of denial during criminal trials: Dr. Warner Best insisted that the first time he heard about the killing of 5–6 million Jews was in the courtroom and Josef Kramer claimed, 'I did not know the purpose of the gas chamber.' But it's the enduring anti-Semitic attitude that resounds throughout the book; many war criminals went unpunished in the years following WWII. Even Adolf Eichmann, one of the most infamous Nazi criminals, went free for nearly twenty years, escaping Germany through a well-established 'rat line.' McKale ends the book with a haunting question: whether life would be different today if the Allies had pursued Holocaust criminals more aggressively after WWII. History buffs and students of the Holocaust will be fascinated with this book. * Publishers Weekly *This is Donald McKale’s eighth book about Nazi history. His knowledge of the subject clearly runs deep. In his latest work McKale conducts a survey—methodically sketching some of Hitler’s most famous henchmen and in particular their postwar lives and how some contributed to the Holocaust denial movement (although most did not themselves deny the Holocaust). McKale’s approach is narrative, blending chronology and biography. Consequently, the structure of the book mirrors the postwar scattering of former Nazis. The reader alternately learns about capture and trial in Nuremberg or Copenhagen, flight to Damascus, or the establishment of residence in Chile. . . . Nazis after Hitler is a recommended read for students of the Second World War in general and of the Holocaust in particular. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *'It didn't happen!' 'I didn't know anything about it!' 'It's all an exaggeration!' 'The Jews made it up!' 'The Jews caused it!'. . . Donald M. McKale delves into all of this in his well-researched book Nazis after Hitler: How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth. . . . [M]ost interestingly, he highlights just how these arguments used by the Nazi murderers would become the arguments used by today's Holocaust deniers. * Martyrdom and Resistance *There are probably few scholars as knowledgeable in their special field of study as Donald M. McKale, particularly when that scholar is recognized simultaneously for the excellence of his pedagogy. * New York Journal of Books *This well-intentioned book is a philippic against the persistence of antisemitism since 1945, the postwar inability or refusal of Nazi war criminals to recognize the injustice of what they had done, and the failure of the victorious Allies to identify the Holocaust as a distinct form of crime. * German Studies Review *Donald M. McKale has written a clear and comprehensive history of how Nazi's escaped justice after 1945. . . . Overall, McKale has documented his study well, including much recent research, such as books on Eichmann by historians David Cesarani and Deborah Lipstadt. * Historian *I have just finished reading a book that should be read by every Jew in the world. . . . This book is the most detailed and complete book on the subject. * Cleveland Jewish News *A significant contribution that provides an excellent synthesis of the latest research. Its biographical approach offers a captivating narrative of the postwar lives of infamous Nazi perpetrators who escaped justice. -- Joseph W. Bendersky, author of A Concise History of Nazi Germany and Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the ReichDonald McKale's Nazis after Hitler makes gripping and important reading about a topic that invariably invites serious controversy. His strong argument about the comparatively lenient treatment of Nazi perpetrators, both infamous and obscure, will provoke debate among scholars and should find a wide reading audience. -- Eric A. Johnson, Central Michigan University; author of Nazi Terror and What We KnewIn this book, readers have the opportunity to follow the developments in the years after World War II that made it possible for most of those who had played active roles in the systematic murder of Jews to evade trial and punishment altogether or to suffer delayed and slight justice. The author also shows by reference to those trials that were held how the perpetrators originated in their own defense many of the arguments that would become a part of the stock in trade of those who deny or minimize the Holocaust. By first describing the careers of Holocaust perpetrators—whether famous, like Hermann Goering, or known primarily to specialists, like Werner Best—and then recounting their fate in the postwar years, McKale provides the reader with an opportunity to follow their lives and the real or non-existent pursuit of justice. The context of German and Austrian societies largely eager to forget, judiciaries reluctant to take horrendous crimes seriously, and Cold War shifts on both sides toward leniency and even employment of perpetrators is thoughtfully described. The initial interest of the Americans and the reluctance of the British to conduct trials, the early and the routinized trials by the Soviets, the contrast between a few trials in Poland and the pogroms there against Jews trying to return to their homes, and the lengthy efforts by a tiny number of concerned individuals to find and bring to trial those like Eichmann and Mengele, who had escaped to Syria and South America, are all covered here on the basis of comprehensive research. The author makes a point of showing that essentially all who had played an active part in the killing of vast numbers whose only crime had been their birth never expressed the slightest degree of regret or remorse. They had done what they were supposed to do, and they thought it either entirely proper or of no moral significance. McKale also suggests that the general indifference to the issue at the time contributes to the maintenance and revival of virulent anti-Semitism into the present time. Anyone interested in a major horror of the twentieth century and how so many who played significant roles in it came to live out their lives in a way they had denied to their victims will find an enlightening but sobering account here. -- Gerhard L. Weinberg, author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War IITable of ContentsChapter 1: World War II and Allied Promises Chapter 2: Four Faces of Genocide: What Happened in the War Chapter 3: Leaving Auschwitz Chapter 4: A Liberation of Contrasts Chapter 5: Soviet “Liberators” Chapter 6: In the Custody of Leniency Chapter 7: Nuremberg, Number Two, and the Substitute Chapter 8: Nuremberg: “King Frank” Chapter 9: Nuremberg: “Fred” the “Endowed Seer” and Verdicts and Sentences Chapter 10: Poland: Occasional Trials amid a Continuing Holocaust Chapter 11: Memory in West Germany: Long and Short Chapter 12: Pseudo-Purges and Politics Chapter 13: Other Trials and Amnesty Chapter 14: Eichmann, Jerusalem, and Eichmann’s Henchmen Chapter 15: Hunting the Comfortable Chapter 16: Four Faces Long after the War: What Didn’t Happen Chapter 17: The Post-Holocaust World
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