The history of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost always by Jews. Wolgang Benz's book makes an important contribution by bringing the German perspective to this horrific event. A masterpiece of compression, the books covers all the major topics and issues, from the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, to stripping Jews of their civil rights, from the establishment of ghettos to the creation of killing centers and the development of an efficient system for extermination. The book also includes a chapter on "The Other Genocide: The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma," detailing the crusade against the Gypsies.

From the Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg:

Benz's account is the necessary 'first course' for anyone who wants to know about the Holocaust and to think further about its meaning for humanity. It is of particular importance that the historian who has written this book is a German. This account is trustworthy because its author combines within himself the rare authority of someone who belongs to the past of his nation. He has both understood and transcended its history in this century. The subject of the book, the Holocaust, is somber beyond words, but this account in Benz's words is a cause for hope.

This volume is the twenty-sixth in the Holocaust Studies Series sponsored by the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. It contains ten seminal studies the catastrophe that befell the Jews of Europe during the Nazi era. It also reprints two historically crucial documents relating to the so-called Hungarian Gold Train, a freight train that, in 1944, carried stolen or confiscated Jewish valuables from Hungary.

Essays recount the unfolding of the Holocaust in Hungary and the history of the Jews in Europe. They detail the elimination of Jews in Greece, particularly from the large Sephardic community of Salonika, and describe the rescue of Jews in Albania. Nonhistorical essays concern autobiographical narratives in which survivors and their descendents reflect on the return to former shtetls in East Central Europe and the attitudes of victims toward the perpetrators of Holocaust crimes. Taken altogether, this volume formulates a more complete understanding of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.

Das Handbuch des Antisemitismus widmet sich allen Aspekten der Judenfeindschaft von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart und ohne geographische Begrenzung. Im siebten Band geben knapp 300 Lemmata einen Uberblick uber den kulturellen Antisemitismus in Film und Theater, in der Literatur und Kunst. Die Figur des ewigen Juden wird ebenso thematisiert wie Jud Suss; Romane, Filme und Kunstwerke werden als Vehikel der Judenfeindschaft behandelt."

Der erste Band LAnder und Regionen enthAlt Artikel zur Judenfeindschaft in85 LAndern und Regionen. Die BeitrAge sind von hervorragenden Kennern der Thematik in der jeweiligen Region verfasst. Alle BeitrAge stellen sowohl die historische Entwicklung jA1/4dischen Lebens wie aktuelle AusprAgungen von Judenfeindschaft dar. Behandelt werden alle wichtigen Staaten, auAerdem historische RAume a " wie Bessarabien, Bukowina, Transnistrien. Der Band bietet eine Topographie des Antisemitismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich - from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German capitulation of May 1945. Originally published to rave reviews in Germany, "A Concise History of the Third Reich" describes the establishment of the totalitarian dictatorship, the domestic and foreign politics of the regime, everyday life and terror in National Socialist Germany, the events leading to World War II and the war itself, various forms of resistance against Hitler, and the Holocaust. The book's extensive illustrations are thoroughly treated as documents that illuminate the visual power of Nazi ideology.

The Bibliography contains an introductionin German and English by the editor and a detailed bibliographical compilation of the filmed works and leaflets.

Vier ehemalige Wehrmachtsangehorige berichten uber ihre Erlebnisse in alliierten Lagern. Ihre Alltagserfahrungen unterschieden sich betrachtlich, je nachdem, ob sie in angelsachsische, franzosische oder sowjetische Gefangenschaft gerieten. Jedoch litten sie alle gemeinsam unter den extremen Bedingungen von Gefangennahme und Internierung."

Ist Martin Walser ein "geistiger Brandstifter", sein Roman 'Tod eines Kritikers' ein antisemitischer Text? Was ist uberhaupt "literarischer Antisemitismus"? Der Verfasser zeichnet die fur das deutsche Selbstverstandnis so signifikante Walser-Debatte nach, um davon ausgehend den Blick zuruck auf das Gesamtwerk des Autors zu richten. Er setzt akribische Lekturen gegen eine Philologie des Verdachts, aber auch gegen blinde Apologie. Sein Befund: Walsers in den 1990er Jahren offenkundig gewordenen Ressentiments sind selbst in jenen Werken angelegt, die langst zum Kanon der so genannten "Vergangenheitsbewaltigung" zahlen. Im Anhang ein Interview mit Martin Walser vom 15. Juli 2003. "Die Untersuchung von Matthias N. Lorenz macht der Spekulation und Mutmassung ein Ende." Wolfgang Benz.

The history of the Holocaust keeps being written and rewritten in ever greater detail, but almost always by Jews. Wolgang Benz's book makes an important contribution by bringing the German perspective to this horrific event. A masterpiece of compression, the books covers all the major topics and issues, from the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, to stripping Jews of their civil rights, from the establishment of ghettos to the creation of killing centers and the development of an efficient system for extermination. The book also includes a chapter on "The Other Genocide: The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma," detailing the crusade against the Gypsies.

From the Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg:

Benz's account is the necessary 'first course' for anyone who wants to know about the Holocaust and to think further about its meaning for humanity. It is of particular importance that the historian who has written this book is a German. This account is trustworthy because its author combines within himself the rare authority of someone who belongs to the past of his nation. He has both understood and transcended its history in this century. The subject of the book, the Holocaust, is somber beyond words, but this account in Benz's words is a cause for hope.