The Anatomy of the Holocaust

Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship

Raul Hilberg, Walter H. Pehle, René Schlott, Raul Hilberg, Walter H. Pehle, René Schlott

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781789204896, 9781789203554
• eBook ISBN: 9781789203561
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia antigua

A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a vital intellectual project.

"I would recommend this book to both Holocaust historians and general readers alike. The breadth and depth of Hilberg's research and his particular insights have not yet been surpassed by any other Holocaust scholar."—Jewish Libraries News & Reviews

Though best known as the author of the landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews, the historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg's most essential and groundbreaking writings?many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists?in a single volume. Supplemented with commentary and notes from Hilberg's longtime German editor and his biographer.

From the Introduction:
This selection by the editors from the multitude of his published texts focuses on Hilberg's intellectual interests as a Holocaust researcher. Among other topics, they deal with the bureaucracy of the Holocaust, the number of victims, the role of the Judenräte(Jewish councils), and the function of the railway and the police in the extermination process. The scholarly impulses extending from Hilberg's work remain remarkable and virulent almost a decade after his death.2 They deserve to be readily accessible in one place to historians and the interested public in the new compilation offered here. Many of the debates influenced by Hilberg are not yet resolved. The texts presented can be quite revealing in light of these controversies.

INDEX OF PERSONS

Adam, Uwe Dietrich, 59, 82, 94

Adenauer, Konrad, 100

Adler, Alfred, 210

Adler, Hans Günther, 9, 152

Adler, Stanisław, 87–88, 91, 235

Adorno, Theodor W., 102, 155, 222

Altstötter, Josef, 154–55

Aly, Götz, 82, 234

Arad, Yitzhak, 83, 92n10, 216

Arendt, Hannah, 64, 201, 203

Auerbach, Rachel, 216

Auerswald, Heinz, 93n22, 124, 126, 131nn53–54

Azéma, Jean-Pierre, 92n2

Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 40, 45n22

Baeck, Leo, 144, 146n24

Bafia, Jerzy, 163

Barasz, Efraim, 141

Bauer, Yehuda, 130n21

Bebenroth, Erich, 54

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 73

Bene, Otto, 66n18

Bertelsen, Aage, 145n13

Best, Werner, 35

Bettelheim, Bruno, 201, 204, 219

Biebow, Hans, 90

Birnbaum, Norman, 208, 222–23

Bischof, Max, 123

Blobel, Paul, 171

Bockhonn, unk (Reichsbahndirektion), 68n49

Boder, David Pablo, 152

Bomba, Abraham, 153

Braham, R. L., 145n3

Brenman-Gibson, Margaret, 211–14, 223

Brickner, Richard M., 46n32–33

Brill, Friedrich, 67n32

Brockdorff-Rantzau, Ulrich von, 110n12

Broniewski, Władysław, 163

Browning, Christopher R., 4, 82, 228

Bunom, Alice de, 93n28

Cahnman, Werner J., 45n15

Carter, Jimmy, 6, 102, 159, 176

Casdorf, unk (Oberfinanzpräsident), 67n42

Clauberg, Carl, 32

Cocks, Geoffrey, 211

Cohen, Elie A., 201

Cohen, Richard L.,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. Research and Scholarship
• II. Controversies and Debates
• III. Memories and Memoirs
• Indexes