Essays on Hitler's Europe / István Deák.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deák, István, 1926-2023.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Persecutions--Europe.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions.

National socialism.

Europe.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

National socialism--Europe.

Fascism--Europe.

Fascism.

Physical Description:

xviii, 222 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2001]

Summary:

Istvan Deak is one of the world's most knowledgeable and clear-headed authorities on the Second World War, and for decades his commentary has been among the most illuminating and influential contributions to the vast discourse on the politics, history, and scholarship of the period. Writing chiefly for the New York Review of Books and the New Republic, Deak has crafted review essays that cover the breadth and depth of the huge literature on this ominous moment in European history when the survival of democracy and human decency were at stake.

Collected here for the first time, these articles chart changing reactions and analyses by the regimes and populations of Europe and reveal how postwar governments, historians, and ordinary citizens attempt to come to terms with -- or to evade -- the realities of the Holocaust, war, fascism, and resistance movements. They track the acts of scoundrels and the collusion of ordinary citizens in the so-called Final Solution but also show how others in authority and on the street heroically opposed the evil of the day. With its depth, conciseness, and interpretive power, this collection allows readers to consider more clearly and completely than ever before what has been said, how thought has shifted, and what we have learned about these momentous, world-changing events.

Contents:

1 Germans

Who Were the National Socialists? 3

Who Were the Fascists? 16

Perpetrators 23

The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys 35

2 Jews Among "Aryans"

In Disguise 47

Cold Brave Heart 51

3 Victims

The Incomprehensible Holocaust 67

A Mosaic of Victims 89

Memories of Hell 94

The Goldhagen Controversy in Retrospect 100

4 The Holocaust in other Lands

A Ghetto in Lithuania 113

Romania: Killing Fields and Refuge 129

The Europeans and the Holocaust 137

A Hungarian Admiral on Horseback 148

The Holocaust in Hungary 159

Poles and Jews 163

5 Onlookers

The Pope, the Nazis, and the Jews 169

The British and the Americans 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.

ISBN:

0803217161

0803266308

OCLC:

45700569