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Studying the Holocaust - Issues, readings and documents (Paperback): Ronnie Landau Studying the Holocaust - Issues, readings and documents (Paperback)
Ronnie Landau
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ronnie Landau has compiled a highly original and invaluable aid to understanding the moral, historical and educational significance of the Holocaust. This cross-disciplinary work has been designed to provide a unique source of help both to students and teachers in fields as disparate as history, humanities, education, literature, drama, psychology, religious education, philosophy and sociology.
"Studying the Holocaust" contains: an historical overview of the holocaust and the years immediately preceding it; key historical documents, each with a brief introduction; a range of readings and usable ideas for imaginative, challenging and stimulating class-based discussions and other activities; an examination of the nature and extent of the crime of genocide in the modern age; a reference section containing brief biographies of key personalities and a glossary of essential terms; and more.

Studying the Holocaust - Issues, readings and documents (Hardcover): Ronnie Landau Studying the Holocaust - Issues, readings and documents (Hardcover)
Ronnie Landau
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Against a background of growing awareness of the Holocaust as an intrinsically important historical event and - equally - a greater readiness to view the Holocaust as a crucial reference point for all multi-cultural, humanistic and liberal education, this work is a highly original and invaluable aid to understanding its moral, historical and educational significance.
This cross-disciplinary work has been designed to provide a unique source of help both to sixth form and undergraduate students and to teachers at all levels in fields as disparate as history, humanities, education, literature, drama, psychology, religious education, philosophy and sociology. It contains:
* an historical overview and of the holocaust and the years immediately preceding it
* key historical documents, each with a brief introduction
* a range of readings and useable ideas for imaginative, challenging and stimulating class-based discussions and other activities
* an examination of the nature and extent of the crime of genocide in the modern age
* a host of suggested questions, thematically arranged, together with related bibliographies
* a reference section containing brief biographies of key personalities and a glossary of essential terms
* suggested educational and philosophical principles on which an enlightened and effective approach to grappling with the meaning and complexity of this subject may be based
* guidance for both student and teacher through the conceptual and historiographical spectrum of holocaust scholarship.

Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France (Paperback, New Ed): Richard H. Weisberg Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France (Paperback, New Ed)
Richard H. Weisberg
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1998. Weisberg provides a comprehensive account of the French legal system's complicity with its German occupiers during the dark period known as 'Vichy'. Drawing on archival sources, personal interviews, and historical research, this book reveals how legalized persecution operated on a practical level, often exceeding German expectations. All while comparing the Vichy experience to American legal precedents and practices, opening the possibility that postmodern modes of thinking ironically adopt the complexity of Vichy reasoning to a host of reading and thinking strategies.

Night - A Memoir (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Elie Wiesel Night - A Memoir (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Elie Wiesel
R430 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
America, American Jews, and the Holocaust - American Jewish History (Hardcover): Jeffrey Gurock America, American Jews, and the Holocaust - American Jewish History (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Gurock
R6,890 Discovery Miles 68 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Part of an eight-volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America, this volume incorporates studies of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the respective responses of the German-American Press and the American-Jewish Press during the emergence of Nazism, and the subsequent issues of rescue during the Holocaust and policies towards the displaced.

Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era - The Ethics of Never Again (Hardcover): Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era - The Ethics of Never Again (Hardcover)
Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider
R4,204 Discovery Miles 42 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be remembered? In this book the authors examine the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and groups understand the moral and political significance of their respective histories of extreme political violence. Do such transnational memories facilitate or hamper the task of coming to terms with and overcoming divisive pasts? Taking Argentina, Spain and a number of sites in post-communist Europe as test cases, this book illustrates the transformation from a nationally oriented ethics to a trans-national one. The authors look at media, scholarly discourse, NGOs dealing with human rights and memory, museums and memorial sites, and examine how a new generation of memory activists revisits the past to construct a new future. Baer and Sznaider follow these attempts to manoeuvre between the duties of remembrance and the benefits of forgetting. This, the authors argue, is the "ethics of Never Again."

Mass Killings and Violence in Spain, 1936-1952 - Grappling with the Past (Paperback): Peter Anderson, Miguel Angel Del Arco... Mass Killings and Violence in Spain, 1936-1952 - Grappling with the Past (Paperback)
Peter Anderson, Miguel Angel Del Arco Blanco
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000 unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed from mass graves and given a dignified burial, and for decades, the history of these victims has also been buried. This volume brings together a range of Spanish and British specialists who offer an original and challenging overview of this violence. Contributors not only examine the mass killings and incarcerations, but also carefully consider how the repression carried out in the government zone during the Civil War - long misrepresented in Francoist accounts - seeped into everyday life. A final section explores ways of facing Spain's recent violent past.

Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France (Hardcover): Richard H. Weisberg Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France (Hardcover)
Richard H. Weisberg
R3,878 Discovery Miles 38 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The involvement of Vichy France with Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish policy has long been a source of debate and contention. At a time when France, after decades of denial, has finally acknowledged responsibility for its role in the deportation and murder of 75,000 Jews from France during the Holocaust, Richard H. Weisberg here provides us with a comprehensive and devastating account of the French legal system's complicity with its German occupiers during the dark period known as 'Vichy'.
As in Germany, the exclusionary laws passed during the Vichy period normalized institutional antisemitism. Anti-Jewish laws entered the legal canon with little resistance, and private lawyers quickly absorbed the discourse of exclusion into the conventional legal framework, expanding the laws beyond their simple intentions, their literal sense, and even their German precedents.
Drawing on newly-available archival sources, personal interviews, and historical research, Weisberg reveals how legalized persecution actually operated on a practical level, often exceeding German expectations. Further, he presents a persuasive argument for Vichy law as an acquired Catholic response to a flase notion of Jewish Talmudism. The book also compares Vichy experience to American legal precedents and practices and opens up the possibility that postmodern modes of thinking ironically adopt the complexity of Vichy reasoning to a host of reading and thinking strategies.
Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France raises fundamental and disturbing questions about the ease with which democratic legal systems can be subverted.

Women, Knowledge, and Reality - Explorations in Feminist Philosophy (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Ann Garry, Marilyn Pearsall Women, Knowledge, and Reality - Explorations in Feminist Philosophy (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Ann Garry, Marilyn Pearsall
R3,947 Discovery Miles 39 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This second edition of Women, Knowledge, and Reality continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy. Essays by twenty-five feminist philosophers, seventeen of them new to the second edition, address fundamental issues in philosophical and feminist methods, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, language, religion and mind/body. This second edition expands the perspectives of women of color, of postmodernism and French feminism, and focuses on the most recent controversies in feminist theory and philosophy.
The chapters are organized by traditional fields of philosophy, and include introductions which contrast the ideas of feminist thinkers with traditional philosophers. The collected essays illustrate both the depth and breadth of feminist critiques and the range of contemporary feminist theoretical perspectives.

Flight and Concealment - Surviving the Holocaust Underground in Munich and Beyond (Paperback): Susanna Schrafstetter Flight and Concealment - Surviving the Holocaust Underground in Munich and Beyond (Paperback)
Susanna Schrafstetter; Translated by Allison Brown
R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between ten thousand and twelve thousand Jews tried to escape Nazi genocide by going into hiding. With the help of Jewish and non-Jewish relatives, friends, or people completely unknown to them, these "U-boats," as they came to be known, dared to lead a life underground. Flight and Concealment brings to light their hidden stories. Deftly weaving together personal accounts with a broader comparative look at the experiences of Jews throughout Germany, historian Susanna Schrafstetter tells the story of the Jews in Munich and Upper Bavaria who fled deportation by going underground. Archival sources and interviews with survivors and with the Germans who aided or exploited them reveal a complex, often intimate story of hope, greed, and sometimes betrayal. Flight and Concealment shows the options and strategies for survival of those in hiding and their helpers, and discusses the ways in which some Germans enriched themselves at the expense of the refugees.

All or Nothing - The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43 (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Jonathan Steinberg All or Nothing - The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Jonathan Steinberg
R3,937 Discovery Miles 39 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

German and Italian fascist armies in the Second World War treated the Jews quite differently. Jews who fell into the hands of the German army ended up in concentration camps; none of those taken by the Italians suffered the same fate. Yet the protectors of the Jews were no philo-Semites, nor were they (often) great respecters of human life. Some of those same officers had sanctioned savage atrocities against Ethiopians and Arabs in the years before the war. Jonathan Steinberg uses this remarkable and poignant story to unravel the motives and forces underpinning both Fascism and Nazism. As a renowned historian of both Germany and Italy, he is uniquely placed to answer the underlying question; why?

Kasztner's Crime (Hardcover): Paul Bogdanor Kasztner's Crime (Hardcover)
Paul Bogdanor
R3,933 Discovery Miles 39 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book re-examines one of the most intense controversies of the Holocaust: the role of Rezs Kasztner in facilitating the murder of most of Nazi-occupied Hungary's Jews in 1944. Because he was acting head of the Jewish rescue operation in Hungary, some have hailed him as a saviour. Others have charged that he collaborated with the Nazis in the deportations to Auschwitz. What is indisputable is that Adolf Eichmann agreed to spare a special group of 1,684 Jews, who included some of Kasztner's relatives and friends, while nearly 500,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to their deaths. Why were so many lives lost? After World War II, many Holocaust survivors condemned Kasztner for complicity in the deportation of Hungarian Jews. It was alleged that, as a condition of saving a small number of Jewish leaders and select others, he deceived ordinary Jews into boarding the trains to Auschwitz. The ultimate question is whether Kastztner was a Nazi collaborator, as branded by Ben Hecht in his 1961 book Perfidy, or a hero, as Anna Porter argued in her 2009 book Kasztner's Train. Opinion remains divided. Paul Bogdanor makes an original, compelling case that Kasztner helped the Nazis keep order in Hungary's ghettos before the Jews were sent to Auschwitz, and sent Nazi disinformation to his Jewish contacts in the free world. Drawing on unpublished documents, and making extensive use of the transcripts of the Kasztner and Eichmann trials in Israel, Kasztner's Crime is a chilling account of one man's descent into evil during the genocide of his own people.

Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature - Engaging Difference and Identity (Hardcover): Rachel Dean-Ruzicka Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature - Engaging Difference and Identity (Hardcover)
Rachel Dean-Ruzicka
R4,199 Discovery Miles 41 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences of young adults during WWII and the Holocaust. Author Rachel Dean-Ruzicka argues for a progressive reading of this literature. Tolerance Discourse and Young Adult Holocaust Literature contests the modern discourse of tolerance, encouraging educators and readers to more deeply engage with difference and identity when studying Holocaust texts. Young adult Holocaust literature is an important nexus for examining issues of identity and difference because it directly confronts systems of power, privilege, and personhood. The text delves into the wealth of material available and examines over forty books written for young readers on the Holocaust and, in the last chapter, neo-Nazism. The book also looks at representations of non-Jewish victims, such as the Romani, the disabled, and homosexuals. In addition to critical analysis of the texts, each chapter reads the discourses of tolerance and cosmopolitanism against present-day cultural contexts: ongoing debates regarding multicultural education, gay and lesbian rights, and neo-Nazi activities. The book addresses essential questions of tolerance and toleration that have not been otherwise considered in Holocaust studies or cultural studies of children's literature.

War, the Holocaust and Stalinism (Hardcover): Redlich War, the Holocaust and Stalinism (Hardcover)
Redlich
R3,957 Discovery Miles 39 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text presents a documented history of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, the Holocaust and the immediate post-war years, up to the end of 1948. It centres upon the fate of Soviet Jewry under both Hitler and Stalin. The text features documents from the newly opening Russian Archives, primarily from the Russian State Archive and the former Archive of the Communist Party with insight of how Soviet and Stalinist policies towards Jews and the JAFC were shaped and the decision-making process involved.

The Quest for the Nazi Personality - A Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals (Hardcover): Eric A. Zillmer, Molly... The Quest for the Nazi Personality - A Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals (Hardcover)
Eric A. Zillmer, Molly Harrower, Barry A. Ritzler, Robert P. Archer
R5,377 Discovery Miles 53 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Half a century after the collapse of the Nazi regime and the Third Reich, scholars from a range of fields continue to examine the causes of Nazi Germany. An increasing number of young Americans are attempting to understand the circumstances that led to the rise of the Nazi party and the subsequent Holocaust, as well as the implication such events may have for today as the world faces a resurgence of neo-Nazism, ethnic warfare, and genocide.
In the months following World War II, extensive psychiatric and psychological testing was performed on over 200 Nazis in an effort to understand the key personalities of the Third Reich and of those individuals who "just followed orders." In addressing these issues, the current volume examines the strange history of over 200 Rorschach Inkblot protocols that were administered to Nazi war criminals and answers such questions as:
* Why the long delay in publishing protocols?
* What caused such jealousies among the principals?
* How should the protocols be interpreted?
* Were the Nazis monsters or ordinary human beings?
This text delivers a definitive and comprehensive study of the psychological functioning of Nazi war criminals -- both the elite and the rank-and-file. In order to apply a fresh perspective to understanding the causes that created such antisocial behavior, these analyses lead to a discussion within the context of previous work done in social and clinical psychology. Subjects discussed include the authoritarian personality, altruism, obedience to authority, diffusion of responsibility, and moral indifference. The implications for current political events are also examined as Neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, and ethnic hate are once again on the rise. While the book does contain some technical material relating to the psychological interpretations, it is intended to be a scholarly presentation written in a narrative style. No prior knowledge of psychological testing is necessary, but it should be of great benefit for those interested in the Rorschach Inkblot test, or with a special interest in psychological testing, personality assessment, and the history of psychology. It is also intended for readers with a broad interest in Nazi Germany.

Against All Odds - Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America (Paperback, 2nd edition): William B.... Against All Odds - Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America (Paperback, 2nd edition)
William B. Helmreich
R1,366 Discovery Miles 13 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not always eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in America; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom they felt most comfortable--most often other survivors.

In preparation, Helmreich spent more than six years traveling the United States, listening to the personal stories of hundreds of survivors, and examining more than 15,000 pages of data as well as new material from archives that have never before been available to create this remarkable, groundbreaking work. What emerges is a picture that is sharply different from the stereotypical image of survivors as people who are chronically depressed, anxious, and fearful.

This intimate, enlightening work explores questions about prevailing over hardship and adversity: how people who have gone through such experiences pick up the threads of their lives; where they obtain the strength and spirit to go on; and, finally, what lessdns the rest of us can learn about overcoming tragedy.

The Final Solution - Origins and Implementation (Hardcover, New): David Cesarani The Final Solution - Origins and Implementation (Hardcover, New)
David Cesarani
R4,365 Discovery Miles 43 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although there is an immense amount of literature on the "final solution" - the Nazis' attempt to exterminate European Jews during the Second World War - many critical questions about the Holocaust still remain unaddressed. These collected essays set out to clarify the reasons for the attempted genocide of the Jews, and to provide new answers to this period of history which often seems inexplicable. The book draws on important new evidence, much of it from archives in Eastern Europe which have only recently become accessible. Contributors are among the leading experts in the field. The essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the "final solution" and the immediate origins of the decision to murder Europe's Jewish population. They consider, too, the impact of the German invasion of Russia in June 1941 on the evolution of a genocidal policy and the response of the peoples and governments in Germany, occupied Europe, the free world and the Jewish communities under the Nazis and in the West. The results of this study are often controversial, and challenge many accepted views.

Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima - Historians and the Second World War, 1945-1990 (Hardcover): Richard J. B. Bosworth Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima - Historians and the Second World War, 1945-1990 (Hardcover)
Richard J. B. Bosworth
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days




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Hitler's True Believers - How Ordinary People Became Nazis (Paperback): Robert Gellately Hitler's True Believers - How Ordinary People Became Nazis (Paperback)
Robert Gellately
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Parsing Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodge-podge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and transformed him, however briefly, into the most powerful leader in the world. How did he discover that ideology? How was it that cohorts of leaders, followers, and ordinary citizens adopted aspects of National Socialism without experiencing the "leader" first-hand or reading his works? They shared a collective desire to create a harmonious, racially select, "community of the people" to build on Germany's socialist-oriented political culture and to seek national renewal. If we wish to understand the rise of the Nazi Party and the new dictatorship's remarkable staying power, we have to take the nationalist and socialist aspects of this ideology seriously. Hitler became a kind of representative figure for ideas, emotions, and aims that he shared with thousands, and eventually millions, of true believers who were of like mind.They projected onto him the properties of the "necessary leader," a commanding figure at the head of a uniformed corps that would rally the masses and storm the barricades. It remains remarkable that millions of people in a well-educated and cultured nation eventually came to accept or accommodate themselves to the tenants of an extremist ideology laced with hatred and laden with murderous implications.

The Shortest History of Germany - From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel--A Retelling for Our Times (Paperback): James Hawes The Shortest History of Germany - From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel--A Retelling for Our Times (Paperback)
James Hawes
R439 R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Save R87 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Gypsies of Eastern Europe (Paperback): David Crowe, John Kolsti, Ian Hancock The Gypsies of Eastern Europe (Paperback)
David Crowe, John Kolsti, Ian Hancock
R1,174 Discovery Miles 11 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent news coverage of the dramatic political events in Eastern Europe, Gypsies have been a favourite sidebar topic. Some of the stories have been truly horrifying, others are written condescendingly and to amuse; but what has become clear is how little we really know about this people. In a concerted effort to uncover the modern history of the Rom in Eastern Europe, the authors examine the Gypsy experience in Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, with special attention to the Nazi Holocaust as well as to the record of the forced settlement and education programmes instituted by communist regimes.

The Gypsies of Eastern Europe (Hardcover): David Crowe, John Kolsti, Ian Hancock The Gypsies of Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
David Crowe, John Kolsti, Ian Hancock
R4,499 Discovery Miles 44 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent news coverage of the dramatic political events in Eastern Europe, Gypsies have been a favourite sidebar topic. Some of the stories have been truly horrifying, others are written condescendingly and to amuse; but what has become clear is how little we really know about this people. In a concerted effort to uncover the modern history of the Rom in Eastern Europe, the authors examine the Gypsy experience in Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, with special attention to the Nazi Holocaust as well as to the record of the forced settlement and education programmes instituted by communist regimes.

Testimony - Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (Paperback, New): Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub Testimony - Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (Paperback, New)
Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub
R1,361 Discovery Miles 13 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Testimony" examines the nature and function of testimony, witnessing and memory, both in their general relation to the acts of writing and of reading, and in their particular relation to the Holocaust. This book takes in the texts of Dostoevsky, Freud, Mallarme, Camus and de Man, videotaped testimonial life accounts of Holocaust survivors and also the film "Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann. "Testimony" defines the uniquely devastating aspect of the Holocaust as a radical crisis of witnessing an "unprecendented historical occurrence of ...an event eliminating its own witness". Drawing on their personal experience of receiving survivors' accounts, Felman and Laub present the first "theory of testimony": a radically new conception of the relationship between art and culture and the witnessing of historical events. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics of literary criticism, literary theory, film theory, psychoanalysis and modern history.

Africans and the Holocaust - Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples (Paperback): Edward Kissi Africans and the Holocaust - Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples (Paperback)
Edward Kissi
R1,207 Discovery Miles 12 070 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe and in former German colonies in sub-Saharan Africa during the Second World War. An intellectual and diplomatic history of World War II and the Holocaust, Africans and the Holocaust looks at the period from the perspectives of the colonized subjects of the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda, as well as the sovereign peoples of Liberia and Ethiopia, who wrestled with the social and moral questions that the war and the Holocaust raised. The five main chapters of the book explore the pre-Holocaust history of relations between Jews and Africans in West and East Africa, perceptions of Nazism in both regions, opinions of World War II, interpretations of the Holocaust, and responses of the colonized and sovereign peoples of West and East Africa to efforts by Great Britain to resettle certain categories of Jewish refugees from Europe in the two regions before and during the Holocaust. This book will be of use to students and scholars of African history, Holocaust and Jewish studies, and international or global history.

My Brother's Keeper - Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust (Hardcover, New): Antony Polonsky My Brother's Keeper - Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust (Hardcover, New)
Antony Polonsky
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years, a lively debate has developed in Poland on the question of what responsibility the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil. This debate was sparked off by the showing in Poland of Claude Lanzmann's film, Shoah , which revealed how deeply-rooted anti-Jewish prejudice could still be found in the Polish countryside. Anti-semitism is something which Poland has preferred to forget. But before the Second World War hostility to the Jews was widespread and this climate of pervasive anti-semitism may have facilitated the Nazis' murderous plans. But Poles now, with great courage, are facing this dark side of their past. This book, translated and edited by a leading British historian of Poland, Antony Polonsky, is a major contribution to the history of the Holocaust. It gathers together the most important contribution to the current debate, revealing the agony many Poles feel about their lack of action during the war.

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