Gray Zones
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Gray Zones

Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Gray Zones

Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

About this book

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain--lest resolution deceive us--will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9781845453022, 9781845450717
eBook ISBN
9781782382010
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
German History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Series Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Prologue
  6. Part I: Ambiguity and Compromise in Writing and Depicting Holocaust History
  7. Chapter 1 The Ambiguities of Evil and Justice
  8. Chapter 2 "Alleviation" and "Compliance"
  9. Chapter 3 Between Sanity and Insanity
  10. Chapter 4 Sonderkommando: Testimony from Evidence
  11. Chapter 5 A Commentary on "Gray Zones" in Raul Hilberg's Work
  12. Chapter 6 Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography
  13. Part II: Identity, Gender, and Sexuality During and After the Third Reich
  14. Chapter 7 Choiceless Choices
  15. Chapter 8 "Who am I?" The Struggle for Religious Identity of Jewish Children Hidden by Christians During the Shoah
  16. Chapter 9 Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
  17. Chapter 10 A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men
  18. Chapter 11 Pleasure and Evil
  19. Chapter 12 The Gender of Good and Evil
  20. Part III: Gray Spaces: Geographical and Imaginative Landscapes
  21. Chapter 13 Hitler's "Garden of Eden" in Ukraine
  22. Chapter 14 Life and Death in the "Gray Zone" of Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe
  23. Chapter 15 "Almost-Camps" in Paris
  24. Chapter 16 Alternate Holocausts and the Mistrust of Memory
  25. Chapter 17 Laughter and Heartache
  26. Chapter 18 The Holocaust in Popular Culture
  27. Chapter 19 The Grey Zone
  28. Part IV: Justice, Religion, and Ethics During and After the Holocaust
  29. Chapter 20 Gray into Black
  30. Chapter 21 Catalyzing Fascism
  31. Chapter 22 Postwar Justice and the Treatment of Nazi Assets
  32. Chapter 23 The Gray Zones of Holocaust Restitution
  33. Chapter 24 The Creation of Ethical "Gray Zones" in the German Protestant Church
  34. Chapter 25 Gray-Zoned Ethics
  35. Epilogue
  36. Select Bibliography
  37. About the Editors and Contributors
  38. Index