Chapter 13 Hitler’s “Garden of Eden” in Ukraine: Nazi Colonialism, Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust, 1941–1944

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF FIGURES xi
4. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xiii
5. PROLOGUE The Gray Zones of the Holocaust xv
6. Part One: Ambiguity and Compromise in Writing and Depicting Holocaust History
7. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 1 The Ambiguities of Evil and Justice: Degussa, Robert Pross, and the Jewish Slave Laborers at Gleiwitz 7
9. Chapter 2 “Alleviation” and “Compliance”: The Survival Strategies of the Jewish Leadership in the Wierzbnik Ghetto and the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps 26
10. Chapter 3 Between Sanity and Insanity: Spheres of Everyday Life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando 37
11. Chapter 4 Sonderkommando: Testimony from Evidence 61
12. Chapter 5 A Commentary on “Gray Zones” in Raul Hilberg’s Work 70
13. Chapter 6 Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography 81
14. Part Two: Identity, Gender, and Sexuality During and After the Third Reich
15. Introduction 93
16. Chapter 7 Choiceless Choices: Surviving on False Papers on the “Aryan” Side 97
17. Chapter 8 “Who Am I?” The Struggle for Religious Identity of Jewish Children Hidden by Christians During the Shoah 107
18. Chapter 9 Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers 118
19. Chapter 10 A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men: Confusion in the Discrimination Against Homosexuals in the Wehrmacht 127
20. Chapter 11 Pleasure and Evil: Christianity and the Sexualization of Holocaust Memory 147
21. Chapter 12 The Gender of Good and Evil: Women and Holocaust Memory 165
22. Part Three: Gray Spaces: Geographical and Imaginative Landscapes
23. Introduction 179
24. Chapter 13 Hitler’s “Garden of Eden” in Ukraine: Nazi Colonialism, Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust, 1941–1944 185
25. Chapter 14 Life and Death in the “Gray Zone” of Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe: The Unknown, the Ambiguous, and the Disappeared 205
26. Chapter 15 “Almost-Camps” in Paris: The Difficult Description of Three Annexes of Drancy—Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944 222
27. Chapter 16 Alternate Holocausts and the Mistrust of Memory 240
28. Chapter 17 Laughter and Heartache: The Functions of Humor in Holocaust Tragedy 252
29. Chapter 18 The Holocaust in Popular Culture: Master-Narrative and Counter-Narratives in the Gray Zone 270
30. Chapter 19 The Grey Zone: The Cinema of Choiceless Choices 286
31. Part Four: Justice, Religion, and Ethics During and After the Holocaust
32. Introduction 293
33. Chapter 20 Gray into Black: The Case of Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski 299
34. Chapter 21 Catalyzing Fascism: Academic Science in National Socialist Germany and Afterward 311
35. Chapter 22 Postwar Justice and the Treatment of Nazi Assets 325
36. Chapter 23 The Gray Zones of Holocaust Restitution: American Justice and Holocaust Morality 339
37. Chapter 24 The Creation of Ethical “Gray Zones” in the German Protestant Church: Reflections on the Historical Quest for Ethical Clarity 360
38. Chapter 25 Gray-Zoned Ethics: Morality’s Double Binds During and After the Holocaust 372
39. Epilogue: An Intense Wish to Understand 390
40. Select Bibliography 395
41. About the Editors and Contributors 399
42. Index 407