The Holocaust in Eastern Europe by Beorn, Waitman Wade -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Dedication Series Information Title Page Epigraph Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction

Defining the “Holocaust” Defining Eastern Europe: Boundaries, Borders, Pasts, and Presents Selected Readings

1 Beyond the Pale: Pre-War Jewish Life in Eastern Europe

Introduction The Other 1492 Jewish Life in Eastern Europe The Long Shadow of Antisemitism Selected Readings

2 The Origins of the Nazi State

Introduction The Nazi Rise to Power The Evolution of the Nazi State The Wars that Hitler Won: Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933–40 Selected Readings

3 Nazis and the Imaginary East

Introduction Selective Memory: Historical Germandom in the East German Conceptions of the East Nazi Conceptions of the East The “Nazi Manifest Destiny” Nazi Plans for Eastern Europe Selected Readings

4 The Soviet Interlude

5 Poland: The Nazi Laboratory of Genocide

6 War of Annihilation: The Invasion of the Soviet Union

Introduction Planning a War of Annihilation: Preparations for Barbarossa German POW Policy: The First Million Victims The Holocaust by Bullets: the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union Incitements to Violence: Pogroms—Homemade or Imported?

Kaunas, Lithuania (Late June 1941) Lwów, Poland (Late June–Early July 1941) Iasi, Romania (June 26–Early July 1941)

Einsatzgruppen Mass Shootings

Babi Yar, Ukraine (June 29–30, 1941) Krupki (September 18, 1941)

The Initial Occupation of the East Selected Readings

7 Ghetto Life and Death in the East

Introduction A Difficult Birth: Nazi Ghetto Policy All Ghettos were Local: The Diversity of Ghettoization in the East “Choiceless Choices:” The Jewish Councils and Their Leaders Ghetto Life: The Daily Struggle for Survival Selected Readings

8 Hitler’s Eastern Allies

Introduction Romania—An Enthusiastic Partner Hungary: The Admiral and the Sinking Ship Bulgaria: The Reluctant Accomplice Selected Readings

9 The Final Solution

Introduction The Evolution of the Final Solution Deciding for Murder Building the Apparatus of Death “The Terrible Smallness of the Place”: Inside Treblinka31 Auschwitz: The Apex of the Final Solution Ghetto Liquidations and the Attempted Destruction of Evidence Selected Readings

10 The Kaleidoscope of Jewish Resistance

Introduction Defining Resistance Social and Cultural Resistance Non-Violent Resistance Armed Resistance Selected Readings

11 Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Rescuers

Introduction Killers and Desk Murderers Local Collaborators in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe “Brave People”: Helping and Rescue in Eastern Europe Selected Readings

Conclusion

Selected Readings

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