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Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War
In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving, whose
libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was
tried in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled Irving a
falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge,
would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did.
Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief adviser for
the defense, uses this famous trial as a lens for exploring a range
of difficult questions about the nature of the historian's
enterprise.
In the immediate decades after World War II, the French National
Railways (SNCF) was celebrated for its acts of wartime heroism.
However, recent debates and litigation have revealed the ways the
SNCF worked as an accomplice to the Third Reich and was actively
complicit in the deportation of 75,000 Jews and other civilians to
death camps. Sarah Federman delves into the interconnected
roles-perpetrator, victim, and hero-the company took on during the
harrowing years of the Holocaust. Grounded in history and case law,
Last Train to Auschwitz traces the SNCF's journey toward
accountability in France and the United States, culminating in a
multimillion-dollar settlement paid by the French government on
behalf of the railways.The poignant and informative testimonies of
survivors illuminate the long-term effects of the railroad's impact
on individuals, leading the company to make overdue amends. In a
time when corporations are increasingly granted the same rights as
people, Federman's detailed account demonstrates the obligations
businesses have to atone for aiding and abetting governments in
committing atrocities. This volume highlights the necessity of
corporate integrity and will be essential reading for those called
to engage in the difficult work of responding to past harms.
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Mlynov‐Muravica Memorial Book
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J Sigelman; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper; Edited by Howard Schwartz
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Broken Memories
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Yosef Kutner; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper
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Scholarship often presumes that texts written about the Shoah,
either by those directly involved in it or those writing its
history, must always bear witness to the affective aftermath of the
event, the lingering emotional effects of suffering. Drawing on the
History of Emotions and on trauma theory, this monograph offers a
critical study of the ambivalent attributions and expressions of
emotion and "emotionlessness" in the literature and historiography
of the Shoah. It addresses three phenomena: the metaphorical
discourses by which emotionality and the purported lack thereof are
attributed to victims and to perpetrators; the rhetoric of
affective self-control and of affective distancing in fiction,
testimony and historiography; and the poetics of empathy and the
status of emotionality in discourses on the Shoah. Through a close
analysis of a broad corpus centred around the work of W. G. Sebald,
Dieter Schlesak, Ruth Kluger and Raul Hilberg, the book critically
contextualises emotionality and its attributions in the post-war
era, when a scepticism of pathos coincided with demands for factual
rigidity. Ultimately, it invites the reader to reflect on their own
affective stances towards history and its commemoration in the
twenty-first century.
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