The Holocaust

Foreword

Introduction

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Chapter 1: Historical Background On The Holocaust:

1: Overview of the Holocaust / Gregory Paul Wegner

2: Nazi Party secures power in Germany / Economist

3: Kristallnacht signals the beginning of large-scale violence against Jews in Germany / New York Times

4: Nazis isolate Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland / Mary Berg

5: Atrocities committed at concentration camps / Gerhart Riegner

6: Nuremberg Trials document the war crimes of the Holocaust / Robert Jackson

7: Jewish Germans return to their hometown after the Holocaust ends / Ernest O Hauser

Chapter 2: Controversies Concerning The Holocaust:

1: U S government willfully failed to help European Jews escape the Nazis / Josiah E DuBois

2: Average Americans knew of but ignored the plight of Jews in Europe / Ron Hollander

3: Many Germans had no choice but to participate in Nazi schemes / Max von Laue

4: German perpetrators of the Holocaust participated willingly in the torture and murder of Jews / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

5: Ordinary Germans' participation in the Holocaust is a product of human nature / Christopher R Browning

6: Holocaust revisionism denies the real pain and suffering experienced by millions / Barry Bennett

7: Allowing Holocaust deniers to defend their cases exposes the flaws in their positions / Deborah Lipstadt

8: Holocaust denial in Muslim countries stems from a desire to enrage the west / Petr Pelikan

9: Holocaust reparations threaten to trivialize the Holocaust / Abraham H Foxman

10: New form of Holocaust commemoration must be developed / Laura Duhan Kaplan

Chapter 3: Personal Narratives:

1: German Jewish man remembers the violence of Kristallnacht / Arno Hamburger

2: German woman recalls her contact with forced laborers and resisting the Nazis / Anna Rudolf

3: Polish woman recounts the hardship of life as a teenager in a force labor camp / Lucyna B Radlo

4: Holocaust survivor describes Auschwitz and his survival / Thomas Buergenthal

5: American soldier experiences hatred and disgust at the end of the Holocaust / Stephen Shields

Chronology

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Index.