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Title

The dynamics of German industry : Germany's path toward the new economy and the American challenge / Werner Abelshauser.

Author

Abelshauser, Werner.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.

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Description

vi, 168 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 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 and 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Making sense of history ; v. 6

Uniform Title

Making sense of history ; v. 6.

Subjects

• Industrial organization > Germany
• Industrial organization > United States
• Germany > Economic conditions
• Germany > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-160) and index.

Contents

Prologue : The gray zones of the Holocaust / Jonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth -- Ch. 1. The ambiguities of evil and justice : Degussa, Robert Pross, and the Jewish slave laborers at Gleiwitz / Peter Hayes -- Ch. 2. "Alleviation" and "compliance" : the survival strategies of the Jewish leadership in the Wierzbnik Ghetto and the Starachowice factory slave labor camps / Christopher R. Browning -- Ch. 3. Between sanity and insanity : spheres of everyday life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando / Gideon Greif -- Ch. 4. Sonderkommando : testimony from Evidence / Michael Berenbaum -- Ch. 5. A commentary on "gray zones" in Raul Hilberg's work / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Ch. 6. Incompleteness in Holocaust historiography / Raul Hilberg -- Ch. 7. Choiceless choices : surviving on false papers on the "Aryan" side / Robert Melson -- Ch. 8. "Who am I?" : the struggle for religious identity of Jewish children hidden by Christians during the Shoah / Eva Fleischner -- Ch. 9. Hitler's Jewish soldiers / Bryan Mark Rigg -- Ch. 10. A gray zone among the field gray men : confusion in the discrimination against homosexuals in the Wehrmacht / Geoffrey J. Giles -- Ch. 11. Pleasure and evil : Christianity and the sexualization of Holocaust memory / Dagmar Herzog -- Ch. 12. The gender of good and evil : women and Holocaust memory / Sara R. Horowitz -- Ch. 13. Hitler's "garden of Eden" in Ukraine : Nazi colonialism, Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust, 1941-1944 / Wendy Lower -- Ch. 14. Life and death in the "gray zone" of Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe : the unknown, the ambiguous, and the disappeared / Martin Dean -- Ch. 15. "Almost-camps" in Paris : the difficult description of three annexes of Drancy - Austerlitz, Levitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944 / Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- Ch. 16. Alternate Holocausts and the mistrust of memory / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld -- Ch. 17. Laughter and heartache : the functions of humor in Holocaust tragedy / Lynn Rapaport -- Ch. 18. The Holocaust in popular culture : master-narrative and counter-narratives in the gray zone / Ronald Smelser -- Ch. 19. The grey zone : the cinema of choiceless choices / Lawrence Baron -- Ch. 20. Gray into black : the case of Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Ch. 21. Catalyzing fascism : academic science in national socialist Germany and afterward / Jeffrey Lewis -- Ch. 22. Postwar justice and the treatment of Nazi assets / Jonathan Petropoulos -- Ch. 23. The gray zones of Holocaust restitution : American justice and Holocaust morality / Michael J. Bazyler -- Ch. 24. The creation of ethical "gray zones" in the German Protestant church : reflections on the historical quest for ethical clarity / Victoria J. Barnett -- Ch. 25. Gray-zoned ethics : morality's double binds during and after the Holocaust / John K. Roth -- Epilogue : an intense wish to understand / Jonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth.

ISBN

• 184545071X
• 1845450728

LCCN

2005042010

OCLC

• ocm57530039
• SCSB-5218546

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries