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Medical experimentation on human subjects during the Third Reich
raises deep moral and ethical questions. This volume features
prominent voices in the filed of bioethics reflecting on a wide
rang of topics and issues. Amid all contemporary discussions of
ethical in science, many ethicists, historians, Holocaust
specialists and medical professionals strongly feel that we should
understand the past in order to make more enlightened ethical
decisions.
Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from
some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and
theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and
individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded
from dominant historical narratives. As a meeting point of several
fields of study, this book is organized around three meta-themes:
race, gender, and genocide. Included are analyses of films and
theatrical productions from the United States, as well as essays on
cinema from Southern and Central America, Europe, and the Middle
East. Topically, the contributing authors write about the depiction
of race, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientation, and genocides.
This volume assesses how the performing arts have aided in the
social construction of the "other" in differing contexts. Its
fundamental premise is that performance is powerful, and its
unifying thesis is that the arts remain a major forum for advancing
a more nuanced and humane vision of social outcasts, not only in
the realm of national imaginations, but in social relations as
well.
For decades scholars have pored over Hitler's autobiographical
journey/political treatise, debating if Mein Kampf has genocidal
overtones and arguably led to the Holocaust. For the first time,
Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust sees celebrated international
scholars analyse the book from various angles to demonstrate how it
laid the groundwork for the Shoah through Hitler's venomous attack
on the Jews in his text. Split into three main sections which focus
on 'contexts', 'eugenics' and 'religion', the book reflects
carefully on the point at which the Fuhrer's actions and policies
turn genocidal during the Third Reich and whether Mein Kampf
presaged Nazi Germany's descent into genocide. There are
contributions from leading academics from across the United States
and Germany, including Magnus Brechtken, Susannah Heschel and
Nathan Stoltzfus, along with totally new insights into the source
material in light of the 2016 German critical edition of Mein
Kampf. Hitler's views on Marxism, violence, and leadership, as well
as his anti-Semitic rhetoric are examined in detail as you are
taken down the disturbing path from a hateful book to the
Holocaust.
Costa-Gavras: Encounters with History explores the life and work of
the director intertwined with historical and socio-political
events, from the early stages of his career: emigrating to France
from Greece in 1955 and first studying at the Sorbonne, then
focusing on filmmaking at IDHEC, now La Fémis. He became an
internationally respected director, first with his Oscar-award
winning film Z (1969) and continued with a vast array of films,
including his most recent work, Adults in the Room (2019). His
films portray the complexities of human nature, relationships
challenged by historical and contemporary socio-political issues.
In this overview of the director’s films, the authors shed light
on his encounters with history from his youth in war-torn Greece to
his later films on immigration, unemployment, global capitalistic
greed, and the abuse of political and economic power in Europe.
Costa-Gavras' films have spanned several decades and several
continents, to combat unethical laws and injustice, oppression,
legal/illegal violence, and torture. Throughout his evolution in
the world of cinema for over half a century as director, writer,
and producer, Costa-Gavras has told human-interest stories that
entertain and inspire, and that help us better understand ourselves
and a fragile, fragmented world.
Costa-Gavras: Encounters with History explores the life and work of
the director intertwined with historical and socio-political
events, from the early stages of his career: emigrating to France
from Greece in 1955 and first studying at the Sorbonne, then
focusing on filmmaking at IDHEC, now La Fémis. He became an
internationally respected director, first with his Oscar-award
winning film Z (1969) and continued with a vast array of films,
including his most recent work, Adults in the Room (2019). His
films portray the complexities of human nature, relationships
challenged by historical and contemporary socio-political issues.
In this overview of the director’s films, the authors shed light
on his encounters with history from his youth in war-torn Greece to
his later films on immigration, unemployment, global capitalistic
greed, and the abuse of political and economic power in Europe.
Costa-Gavras' films have spanned several decades and several
continents, to combat unethical laws and injustice, oppression,
legal/illegal violence, and torture. Throughout his evolution in
the world of cinema for over half a century as director, writer,
and producer, Costa-Gavras has told human-interest stories that
entertain and inspire, and that help us better understand ourselves
and a fragile, fragmented world.
This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government
commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document
the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945
liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in
these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John
Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the
Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the
judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and
extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and
crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were
integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and
the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close
analysis of the footage in these films and their historical
significance. Using research carried out at the Museum of Jewish
Heritage, the US National Archives and the film collection at the
National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, this book
explores the rationale for filming the atrocities and their use in
the subsequent trials of Nazi officials in greater detail than
anything previously published. Including an extensive bibliography
and filmography, Filming the End of the Holocaust is an important
text for scholars and students of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government
commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document
the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945
liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in
these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John
Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the
Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the
judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and
extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and
crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were
integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and
the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close
analysis of the footage in these films and their historical
significance. Using research carried out at the Museum of Jewish
Heritage, the US National Archives and the film collection at the
National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, this book
explores the rationale for filming the atrocities and their use in
the subsequent trials of Nazi officials in greater detail than
anything previously published. Including an extensive bibliography
and filmography, Filming the End of the Holocaust is an important
text for scholars and students of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
For decades scholars have pored over Hitler's autobiographical
journey/political treatise, debating if Mein Kampf has genocidal
overtones and arguably led to the Holocaust. For the first time,
Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust sees celebrated international
scholars analyse the book from various angles to demonstrate how it
laid the groundwork for the Shoah through Hitler's venomous attack
on the Jews in his text. Split into three main sections which focus
on 'contexts', 'eugenics' and 'religion', the book reflects
carefully on the point at which the Fuhrer's actions and policies
turn genocidal during the Third Reich and whether Mein Kampf
presaged Nazi Germany's descent into genocide. There are
contributions from leading academics from across the United States
and Germany, including Magnus Brechtken, Susannah Heschel and
Nathan Stoltzfus, along with totally new insights into the source
material in light of the 2016 German critical edition of Mein
Kampf. Hitler's views on Marxism, violence, and leadership, as well
as his anti-Semitic rhetoric are examined in detail as you are
taken down the disturbing path from a hateful book to the
Holocaust.
A distinguished group of scholars from Germany, Israel and right
across the United States are brought together in Nazi Law to
investigate the ways in which Hitler and the Nazis used the law as
a weapon, mainly against the Jews, to establish and progress their
master plan for German society. The book looks at how, after
assuming power in 1933, the Nazi Party manipulated the legal system
and the constitution in its crusade against Communists, Jews,
homosexuals, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses and other religious and
racial minorities, resulting in World War II and the Holocaust. It
then goes on to analyse how the law was subsequently used by the
opponents of Nazism in the wake of World War Two to punish them in
the war crime trials at Nuremberg. This is a valuable edited
collection of interest to all scholars and students interested in
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
A distinguished group of scholars from Germany, Israel and right
across the United States are brought together in Nazi Law to
investigate the ways in which Hitler and the Nazis used the law as
a weapon, mainly against the Jews, to establish and progress their
master plan for German society. The book looks at how, after
assuming power in 1933, the Nazi Party manipulated the legal system
and the constitution in its crusade against Communists, Jews,
homosexuals, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses and other religious and
racial minorities, resulting in World War II and the Holocaust. It
then goes on to analyse how the law was subsequently used by the
opponents of Nazism in the wake of World War Two to punish them in
the war crime trials at Nuremberg. This is a valuable edited
collection of interest to all scholars and students interested in
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
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