Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Series Preface VII
4. Introduction IX
5. Part One: The Holocaust in History
6. EUROPEAN JEWRY BEFORE AND AFTER HITLER 3
7. CONCERNING AUTHENTIC AND UNAUTHENTIC RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST 68
8. The "Incomprehensibility" of the Holocaust: Tightening Up Some Loose Usage 88
9. Against Mystification: The Holocaust as a Historical Phenomenon 98
10. Was the Holocaust Predictable? 118
11. Some Aspects of the Historical Significance of the Holocaust 138
12. Jews, Antisemitism, and the Origins of the Holocaust 162
13. On the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide 179
14. The Place of the Holocaust in Contemporary History 225
15. Part Two: Historical Writing on the Holocaust
16. Publications on the Holocaust 251
17. The Holocaust in American Historical Writing 284
18. The Soviet Treatment of the Holocaust 304
19. Historians of the German Democratic Republic on Antisemitism and Persecution 311
20. Major Trends and Tendencies in German Historiography on National Socialism and the “Jewish Question” (1924-1984) 337
21. The History of the Holocaust: A Survey of Recent Literature 365
22. NORMALIZING THE HOLOCAUST? THE RECENT HISTORIANS DEBATE IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 412
23. Copyright Information 433
24. Index 435
25. Footnotes continued from "Against Mystification," by Yehuda Bauer, p. 117 448