7 Mennonites in Ukraine before, during, and Immediately after the Second World War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction – Neighbours, Killers, Enablers, Witnesses: The Many Roles of Mennonites in the Holocaust 1
6. Introduction to Chapter 1 – Mennonites and Nazi Crimes: Gerhard Rempel’s Call for Historical Reckoning 35
7. 1 Mennonites, War Crimes, and the Holocaust 41
8. 2 Enjoying the Entitlements of German Freedom: German Mennonites and Nazi Church-State Policy 72
9. 3 Antisemitism and the Concept of Volk: The Mennonite Youth Circular Community at the Beginning of the Nazi Dictatorship 104
10. 4 German Mennonite Theology in the Era of National Socialism 125
11. 5 Dutch Mennonite Theologians and Nazism 153
12. 6 Mennonite Collaboration with Nazism: A Case Study of the Responses of Mennonites in Deutsch Wymyschle, Poland, to the Plight of Local Jews during the Early Nazi Occupation Period (1939–1942) 172
13. 7 Mennonites in Ukraine before, during, and Immediately after the Second World War 202
14. 8 A Portrait of Khortytsya/Zaporizhzhia under Occupation 229
15. 9 Dutch Mennonites and Yad Vashem Recognition 250
16. 10 Identity and Complicity: The Post−Second World War Emigration of Chortitza Mennonites 269
17. 11 A Usable Past: Soviet Mennonite Memories of the Holocaust 290
18. 12 Selective Memory: Danziger Mennonite Reflections on the Nazi Era, 1945–1950 307
19. List of Contributors 319
20. Index 323