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István Deák is one of the world''s most knowledgeable and clearheaded authorities on the Second World War, and for decades his commentary has been among the most illuminating and influential contributions to the vast discourse on the politics, history, and scholarship of the period. Writing chiefly for the New York Review of Books and the New Republic, Deák has crafted review essays that cover the breadth and depth of the huge literature on this ominous moment in European history when the survival of democracy and human decency were at stake.

Collected here for the first time, these articles chart changing reactions and analyses by the regimes and populations of Europe and reveal how postwar governments, historians, and ordinary citizens attempt to come to terms with—or to evade—the realities of the Holocaust, war, fascism, and resistance movements. They track the acts of scoundrels and the collusion of ordinary citizens in the so-called Final Solution but also show how others in authority and on the street heroically opposed the evil of the day. With its depth, conciseness, and interpretive power, this collection allows readers to consider more clearly and completely than ever before what has been said, how thought has shifted, and what we have learned about these momentous, world-changing events.

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Histoire

Military history

World War II

History of Europe

Germany

History

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Publié par	Nebraska
Date de parution	01 septembre 2001
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780803200203
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Deák, István. Essays on Hitler’s Europe / István Deák. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8032-1716-1(cl.: alk. paper)—isbn 0-8032-6630-8(pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Jews—Persecutions—Europe.2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Europe. 3. National socialism—Europe.4. Fascism—Europe. I. Title.

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Preliminary NotesixIntroduction 1 g e r m a n s Who Were the National Socialists?3 Who Were the Fascists?16 Perpetrators23 The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys35 2 j e ws a m o n g “a rya n s” In Disguise47 Cold Brave Heart51 3 v i c t i m s The Incomprehensible Holocaust67 A Mosaic of Victims89 Memories of Hell94 The Goldhagen Controversy in Retrospect 4 t h e h o l o c au s t i n o t h e r l a n d s A Ghetto in Lithuania113 Romania: Killing Fields and Refuge129 The Europeans and the Holocaust137 A Hungarian Admiral on Horseback148 The Holocaust in Hungary159 Poles and Jews163 5 o n l o o k e r s The Pope, the Nazis, and the Jews169 The British and the Americans185 Notes195Index207 vii

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Writing reviews for theNew York Review of Booksand theNew Republicmeans writing about books that the editors have assigned to you. Bunched together more or less to ﬁt the reviewer’s ﬁelds of interest, these works have some com-mon themes; still, this is a rather haphazard process, dictated by what is new and what attracts the editor’s attention in the mountains of books that rise in every nook and corner of his ofﬁce. From time to time I was assigned only a single book to review; in the most demanding assignment, I had to review six-teen volumes within a single essay and in addition was asked to refer, either in the text or in the footnotes, to several other new works. An unexpected offer recently came my way when the director of the Univer-sity of Nebraska Press presented me with the opportunity of publishing a se-lection of my essays that had appeared up to then. Now, I was confronted with the dilemma of how to organize and to systematize a collection of work that, by its very nature, deﬁes organization. A major rearrangement would have amounted to writing a new book; also, the original ﬂavor of the essays would have been lost. I therefore compromised by shifting—but only in a few in-stances—segments of a review from one essay to another when it seemed ab-solutely necessary. Because it is always the journal editor and not the author who decides on the title of an essay and because editors like to use splashy titles for very ob-vious reasons, I found it impossible to keep some of the original essay titles. Otherwise, several articles would have had nearly identical titles, generously spiced with such words as “Hell”, “Hero,” “Horror,” and “Survivor.” The begin-ning of each essay in the book indicates precisely when, where, and under what title the original essay was printed. Needless to say, I was tempted to rewrite some of the articles, especially where historical hindsight has proven me wrong. I resisted the temptation and ix