Download or read book The International status of education about the Holocaust written by Carrier, Peter and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do schools worldwide treat the Holocaust as a subject? In which countries does the Holocaust form part of classroom teaching? Are representations of the Holocaust always accurate, balanced and unprejudiced in curricula and textbooks? This study, carried out by UNESCO and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, compares for the first time representations of the Holocaust in school textbooks and national curricula. Drawing on data which includes countries in which there exists no or little information about representations of the Holocaust, the study shows where the Holocaust is established in official guidelines, and contains a close textbook study, focusing on the comprehensiveness and accuracy of representations and historical narratives. The book highlights evolving practices worldwide and thus provides education stakeholders with comprehensive documentation about current trends in curricula directives and textbook representations of the Holocaust. It further formulates recommendations that will help policy-makers provide the educational means by which pupils may develop Holocaust literacy.
Download or read book The Roma Struggle for Compensation in Post war Germany written by Julia Von dem Knesebeck and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years passed before it was accepted, in West Germany and elsewhere, that the Roma (Germany's Gypsies) had been Holocaust victims. And, similarly, it took thirty years for the West German state to admit that the sterilisation of Roma had been part of the 'Final Solution'. Drawing on a substantial body of previously unseen sources, this book examines the history of the struggle of Roma for recognition as racially persecuted victims of National Socialism in post-war Germany. Since modern academics belatedly began to take an interest in them, the Roma have been described as 'forgotten victims'. This book looks at the period in West Germany between the end of the War and the beginning of the Roma civil rights movement in the early 1980s, during which the Roma were largely passed over when it came to compensation. The complex reasons for this are at the heart of this book.
Download or read book Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany written by Elizabeth Harvey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the surprising ways in which the Nazi regime permitted or even fostered aspirations of privacy.
Download or read book Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany written by John M. Steiner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Die Verfolgung und Vernichtung der Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland Das Wissen der deutschen Bev lkerung written by Lukas Strehle and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Nationalsozialismus, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Zahl der vom NS-Regime zwischen 1933 und 1945 ermordeten Juden beträgt nach vorsichtigen Schätzungen zwischen fünf und sechs Millionen , was im Durchschnitt folglich etwa 500.000 getötete Menschen im Jahr oder über 1300 Opfer am Tag bedeutet. Neben aller Betroffenheit angesichts solcher Zahlen, neben allen technischen, organisatorischen und ereignisgeschichtlichen Details und der prinzipiellen Frage, wie ein solcher Massenmord überhaupt möglich war, verdient bei der Behandlung der Judenverfolgung und –vernichtung auch und nicht zuletzt das Stattfinden des Holocaust unter den Augen der deutschen Bevölkerung Beachtung. Denn im deutlichen Gegensatz zu den unvorstellbaren Opferzahlen steht die Aussage vieler Deutscher nach 1945: „Davon haben wir nichts gewusst.“ Aus der Perspektive der älteren Generation, die mit dieser Aussage wohl vor allem eine eigene Schuld an der Judenverfolgung und –vernichtung zurückweisen und dem vermuteten Vorwurf der Unterstützung des NS-Regimes entgegentreten wollte, erscheint diese im Lauf der Zeit zur kollektiven Abwehr einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema gewordene Aussage verständlich. Aus der Perspektive des nachgeborenen Historikers drängen sich jedoch zahlreiche Fragen auf. Was ist mit „davon“ überhaupt gemeint? Welche Aspekte der Judenverfolgung waren den Deutschen bekannt und welche nicht? Gab es unterhalb der Ebene des Wissens nicht möglicherweise Bereiche des Ahnens, des Vermutens, gab es Gerüchte oder Hinweise? Mussten manche Dinge nicht zwangsläufig bekannt werden? Es ist schwer, wenn nicht unmöglich, auf diese Fragen rückblickend nach 1945 eine verlässliche Antwort zu erhalten. Ein Schritt zur Lösung dieses Problems liegt in der Wahl der Herangehensweise; das Wissen der Deutschen muss für jede Etappe der Judenverfolgung, für alle Schritte und Maßnahmen von 1933 bis 1945, mithilfe der jeweils zeitgenössischen Quellen erschlossen werden. Denn wo man auf diese Frage an einen Zeitzeugen heute als Antwort das typische „Davon haben wir nichts gewusst!“ erhalten würde, kann einem der Blick in die unverfälschten Quellen verraten, was die Deutschen wissen konnten, mussten, was sie vermuteten oder auch was sie eben nicht wissen konnten. Im Folgenden soll – nach einem Überblick über die prinzipiell verwendbaren Quellen und die besondere Quellenproblematik des Themas – erläutert werden, was die Deutschen von den jeweiligen Etappen der Judenverfolgung zwischen 1933 und 1945 wissen, ahnen oder vermuten konnten.
Download or read book Die Verfolgung und Vernichtung der Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland Das Wissen der deutschen Bev lkerung written by Lukas Strehle and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Nationalsozialismus, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Zahl der vom NS-Regime zwischen 1933 und 1945 ermordeten Juden beträgt nach vorsichtigen Schätzungen zwischen fünf und sechs Millionen, was im Durchschnitt folglich etwa 500.000 getötete Menschen im Jahr oder über 1300 Opfer am Tag bedeutet. Neben aller Betroffenheit angesichts solcher Zahlen, neben allen technischen, organisatorischen und ereignisgeschichtlichen Details und der prinzipiellen Frage, wie ein solcher Massenmord überhaupt möglich war, verdient bei der Behandlung der Judenverfolgung und -vernichtung auch und nicht zuletzt das Stattfinden des Holocaust unter den Augen der deutschen Bevölkerung Beachtung. Denn im deutlichen Gegensatz zu den unvorstellbaren Opferzahlen steht die Aussage vieler Deutscher nach 1945: "Davon haben wir nichts gewusst." Aus der Perspektive der älteren Generation, die mit dieser Aussage wohl vor allem eine eigene Schuld an der Judenverfolgung und -vernichtung zurückweisen und dem vermuteten Vorwurf der Unterstützung des NS-Regimes entgegentreten wollte, erscheint diese im Lauf der Zeit zur kollektiven Abwehr einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema gewordene Aussage verständlich. Aus der Perspektive des nachgeborenen Historikers drängen sich jedoch zahlreiche Fragen auf. Was ist mit "davon" überhaupt gemeint? Welche Aspekte der Judenverfolgung waren den Deutschen bekannt und welche nicht? Gab es unterhalb der Ebene des Wissens nicht möglicherweise Bereiche des Ahnens, des Vermutens, gab es Gerüchte oder Hinweise? Mussten manche Dinge nicht zwangsläufig bekannt werden? Es ist schwer, wenn nicht unmöglich, auf diese Fragen rückblickend nach 1945 eine verlässliche Antwort zu erhalten. Ein Schritt zur Lösung diese
Download or read book The Holocaust and European Societies written by Frank Bajohr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All European societies experienced developments that led to the social exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent’s Jews. This volume therefore questions Raul Hilberg ́s category of the ‘bystander’. In societies where the political order expects citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the population, there cannot be any completely uninvolved bystanders. Instead, this book examines the multifarious forms of social action and behaviour connected with the Holocaust. It focuses on institutions and persons, helpers, co-perpetrators, facilitators and spectators, beneficiaries and profiteers, as well as Jewish victims and Jewish organisations trying to cope with the dynamics of exclusion and persecution.
Download or read book Defying Hitler written by Sebastian Haffner and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defying Hitler was written in 1939 and focuses on the year 1933, when, as Hitler assumed power, its author was a 25-year-old German law student, in training to join the German courts as a junior administrator. His book tries to answer two questions people have been asking since the end of World War II: “How were the Nazis possible?” and “Why did no one stop them?” Sebastian Haffner’s vivid first-person account, written in real time and only much later discovered by his son, makes the rise of the Nazis psychologically comprehensible. “An astonishing memoir... [a] masterpiece.” — Gabriel Schoenfeld, The New York Times Book Review “A short, stabbing, brilliant book... It is important, first, as evidence of what one intelligent German knew in the 1930s about the unspeakable nature of Nazism, at a time when the overwhelming majority of his countrymen claim to have know nothing at all. And, second, for its rare capacity to reawaken anger about those who made the Nazis possible.” — Max Hastings, The Sunday Telegraph “Defying Hitler communicates one of the most profound and absolute feelings of exile that any writer has gotten between covers.” — Charles Taylor, Salon “Sebastian Haffner was Germany’s political conscience, but it is only now that we can read how he experienced the Nazi terror himself — that is a memoir of frightening relevance today.” — Heinrich Jaenicke, Stern “The prophetic insights of a fairly young man... help us understand the plight, as Haffner refers to it, of the non-Nazi German.” — The Denver Post “Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler is a most brilliant and imaginative book — one of the most important books we have ever published.” — Lord Weidenfeld
Download or read book The Germans and the Holocaust written by Susanna Schrafstetter and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did “ordinary” Germans know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know it, and how did they respond collectively and as individuals? This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence. Ranging from the roots of popular anti-Semitism to the complex motivations of Germans who hid Jews, these studies illuminate some of the most difficult questions in Holocaust historiography, supplemented with an array of fascinating primary source materials.
Download or read book As the Witnesses Fall Silent 21st Century Holocaust Education in Curriculum Policy and Practice written by Zehavit Gross and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world. It comes at a critical time, as the world approaches the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We are now at a turning point as the generations that witnessed and survived the Shoah are slowly passing on. Governments are charged with ensuring that this defining event of the 20th century should take its rightful place in the historical consciousness of the world's peoples and their education. The policies and practices of Holocaust education around the world are as diverse as the countries that grapple with its history and its meaning.The effort to reconcile national histories and memories with the international realities of the Holocaust and its implications for the present persists. These efforts take place at a time when scholarship about the Holocaust itself has made great strides. In this book, these issues are framed by some of the leading voices in the field, including Elie Wiesel and Yehuda Bauer, and then explored by many distinguished scholars who represent a wide range of expertise. Holocaust education is of such significance, so rich in meaning, so powerful in content, and so diverse in practice that the need for extensive, high-quality empirical research is critical. This book provides exactly that. .
Download or read book Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture written by Thulin, Mirjam and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2019 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PaRDeS. Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V., möchte die fruchtbare und facettenreiche Kultur des Judentums sowie seine Berührungspunkte zur Umwelt in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen dokumentieren. Daneben dient die Zeitschrift als Forum zur Positionierung der Fächer Jüdische Studien und Judaistik innerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses sowie zur Diskussion ihrer historischen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung. PaRDeS. Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies e. V. The journal aims at documenting the fruitful and multifarious culture of Judaism as well as its relations to its environment within diverse areas of research. In addition, the journal is meant to promote Jewish Studies within academic discourse and discuss its historic and social responsibility.
Download or read book The Operation Reinhard Death Camps written by Yitzhak Arad and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these camps existed purely to murder Jews. Few victims survived to tell their stories, and the camps were largely forgotten after they were dismantled in 1943. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps bears eloquent witness to this horrific tragedy. This newly revised and expanded edition includes new material on the history of the Jews under German occupation in Poland; the execution and timing of Operation Reinhard; information about the ghettos in Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow, Radom, and Galicia; and updated numbers of the victims who were murdered during deportations. In addition to documenting the horror of the camps, Yitzhak Arad recounts the stories of those courageous enough to struggle against the Nazis and their "final solution." Arad's work retrieves the experiences of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and exposes a terrible chapter in humanity's history.
Download or read book Hitler Bene Tito written by Arnold Suppan and published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1945, Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, President Edvard Benes, and Marshal Josip Broz Tito stood as examples of the complete rupture between the Germans and Austrians on the one hand, and the Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks on the other. The total break that occurred in World War II with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocides (particularly against the Jews and "Gypsies") had a long pre-history, beginning with violent nationalist clashes in the Habsburg Monarchy during the revolutions of 1848/49. Therefore, this monograph - based on a broad range of international primary and secondary sources - explores the development of the political, legal, economic, social, and cultural "communities of conflict" within Austria-Hungary, especially in the Bohemian and South Slavic countries, the making of the Paris Peace Treaties in 1919/20 by violating President Wilson's principle of self-determination, particularly in drawing new borders and creating new economic units, and the perpetuated ethnic-national conflicts between Czechs and Germans, Slovaks and Magyars, Slovenes and Germans, Croats and Serbs as well as Serbs and Germans in the successor states, deepening the differences between the nations of East-Central Europe. Although many kings, presidents, chancellors, ministers, governors, diplomats, business tycoons, generals, Nazi-Gauleiter, higher SS and police leaders, and Communist functionaries have appeared as historical actors in the 170 years of East-Central and Southeastern European history, Hitler, Benes, and Tito remain especially present in historical memory at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Submerged on the Surface written by Richard N. Lutjens, Jr. and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1941 and 1945, thousands of German Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the Nazi capital. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and interviews with survivors, this book reconstructs the daily lives of Jews who stayed in Berlin during the war years. Contrary to the received wisdom that “hidden” Jews stayed in attics and cellars and had minimal contact with the outside world, the author reveals a cohort of remarkable individuals who were constantly on the move and actively fought to ensure their own survival.
Download or read book Hitler s Prisons Legal Terror in Nazi Germany written by Nikolaus Wachsmann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many hundreds of thousands of men and women during the Nazi era. This important book illuminates the previously unknown world of Nazi prisons, their victims, and the judicial and penal officials who built and operated this system of brutal legal terror. Nikolaus Wachsmann describes the operation and function of legal terror in the Third Reich and brings Nazi prisons to life through the harrowing stories of individual inmates. Drawing on a vast array of archival materials, he traces the series of changes in prison policies and practice that led eventually to racial terror, brutal violence, slave labor, starvation, and mass killings. Wachsmann demonstrates that "ordinary" legal officials were ready collaborators who helped to turn courts and prisons into key components in the Nazi web of terror. And he concludes with a discussion of the whitewash of the Nazi legal system in postwar West Germany.
Download or read book Writing the Revolution written by Raphael Hörmann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates German and English revolutionary literary discourse between 1819 and 1848/49. Marked by dramatic socioeconomic transformations, this period witnessed a pronounced transnational shift from the concept of political revolution to one of social revolution. Writing the Revolution engages with literary authors, radical journalists, early proletarian pamphleteers, and political theorists, tracing their demands for social liberation, as well as their struggles with the specter of proletarian revolution. The book argues that these ideological battles translated into competing "poetics of revolution." (Series: Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven - Vol. 10)
