Creators & ContributorsBauer, Yehuda (author)

Summary"One of the world's premier historians of the Holocaust evaluates accepted views of its history and meaning in this extraordinary book. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation of why the Holocaust occurred and how another can be prevented. He offers [...] opinions on topics ranging from how Jews reacted to the murderous campaign against them to the relationship between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel." —Back cover

Contents

1. What was the Holocaust?
2. Is the Holocaust explicable?
3. Comparisons with other genocides
4. Overall interpretations: Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly
5. Overall interpretations: Daniel J. Goldhagen, John Weiss, Saul Friedländer
6. Jewish resistance—myth or reality?
7. Unarmed resistance and other responses
8. The problem of gender: the case of Gisi Fleischmann
9. Theology, or God the surgeon
10. Rescue attempts: the case of the Auschwitz protocols
11. From the Holocaust to the state of Israel

Appendix. Speech to the Bundestag

Notes

• Yale Nota Bene book
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 311–319) and index