The Holocaust : an unfinished history

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Personal Author:

Stone, Dan, 1971-

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Physical Description:

li, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Summary:

"Drawing on decades of research ... [this work] upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. [The author] draws on Nazi documents, but also on diaries, post-war testimonies, and even fiction, urging that, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia, it is vital that we understand the true history of the Holocaust"--

Contents:

Before the holocaust -- Attack on the Jews, 1933-8 -- Before the 'final solution' -- War of annihilation -- A continent-wide crime -- Camps and the mobile Holocaust -- Great is the wrath: 'liberation' and its aftermath -- Holocaust memory.

Subject Term:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- History.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography

Publication Info:

New York : Mariner Books, 2024.

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- History.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography

Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945)

Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945)

Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945)

Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust)

Ḥurban (1939-1945)

Ḥurbn (1939-1945)

Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945)

Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)

Jews -- Nazi persecution (1939-1945)

Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust)

Nazi persecution of Jews

Shoʼah (1939-1945)

SAILS ISBN:

9780063349032

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A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust-and reinterprets the events as a living trauma from which modern society has not yet recovered

One of the most acclaimed books of the year: "Outstanding" (Times Literary Supplement); "Remarkable" (Guardian); "Important and challenging" (Jewish Chronicle); "Deeply haunting" (Telegraph)

The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.

Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone--Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London--reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He outlines the depth of collaboration across Europe, arguing persuasively that we need to stop thinking of the Holocaust as an exclusively German project. He also considers the nature of trauma the Holocaust engendered, and why Jewish suffering has yet to be fully reckoned with. And he makes clear that the kernel to understanding Nazi thinking and action is genocidal ideology, providing a deep analysis of its origins.

Drawing on decades of research, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. Stone draws on Nazi documents, but also on diaries, post-war testimonies, and even fiction, urging that, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia, it is vital that we understand the true history of the Holocaust.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Historian Stone (The Liberation of the Camps) argues in this powerful study that "in many ways we have failed unflinchingly to face the terrible reality of the Holocaust." Surveying the wide body of research on the subject, he contends that public consciousness has wrongly been dominated by "the perception of 'factory-like' genocide"--a misleading idea that serves to replace the brutal, up-close murders of the Holocaust with an imaginary bureaucratic killing machine. To counter this inaccurate vision, Stone analyzes the "ideology" of the Holocaust--from its roots in European antisemitism, through the brutal Nazi race regime that was quickly adopted by collaborators in countries invaded by Germany, to its aftermath when some Jewish people who refused to emigrate from Europe were kept in "displaced persons" camps all the way through 1957, and into the following decades of mass trauma and attempts at commemoration. His astute investigation, which adeptly moves between "microhistories" and large-scale events, shows how the Holocaust was primarily made possible by the widespread adoption of racist thinking and the long-term nurturing of "genocidal fantasy" in Europe--the latter of which is still poorly reckoned with today, since the emotional frenzy of genocide is rarely brought to the fore in "sanitized" Holocaust historiography. Concluding with a dire warning that the modern nation-state is a catalyst for racist and genocidal thinking that is today often targeted at migrants, Muslims, and other maginalized groups, this is an urgent new perspective on a much-studied calamity. (Jan.)

Kirkus Review

A significant new history of the Holocaust from the director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway. Stone, a professor of modern history and author of The Liberation of the Camps, emphasizes that we must stop thinking about the Holocaust as solely a German affair. "The genocide of the Jews," he writes, "could not have been so thorough and so brutal without almost ubiquitous collaboration across Europe and beyond." Historians agree that the trauma of Germany's World War I defeat led to a legion of revanchist splinter groups. The Nazis were not taken seriously until 1932, when they became Germany's largest party, and Hitler took power peacefully in 1933. No one has yet explained his obsessive hatred of Jews, but his party--and most Germans--went along. Stone delivers a gripping account of prewar Nazi legal persecution. About half of Germany's Jews fled before emigration was banned in October 1941, although many found refuge in neighboring countries "that were later occupied." Mass murder began with the 1939 invasion of Poland, and Stone's blow-by-blow account may be more distressful than previous ones because he refutes their myths. Nearly half of the victims died of starvation or disease or were shot in "face-to-face killings reminiscent of colonial massacres." In the gas chambers, victims died in agony, but fanatics such as the SS did not do all the work. Ordinary civilians and soldiers participated with frightening enthusiasm. Years later, many decent people claimed that refusing would have provoked terrible retaliation, but that is a myth. No group or country that declined to cooperate suffered. Stone concludes that today, "fascism is not yet in power. But it is knocking on the door." The solution, he writes, is not necessarily more Holocaust education, unless it addresses a society that takes equality and tolerance for granted. A painfully revealing, vital history. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

List of Figures and Maps	vii
Image Sources	viii
Introduction: What Is The Holocaust?	ix
Chapter 1 Before the Holocaust	1
Chapter 2 Attack on the Jews, 1933-8	35
Chapter 3 Before the 'Final Solution'	67
Chapter 4 War of Annihilation	103
Chapter 5 A Continent-wide Crime	145
Chapter 6 Camps and the Mobile Holocaust	189
Chapter 7 Great Is the Wrath: 'Liberation' and Its Aftermath	223
Chapter 8 Holocaust Memory	263
Conclusion	297
Notes	305
Select Bibliography	369
Index	381

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