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America views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 : a brief documentary history / Robert H. Abzug.
Were Americans heroic liberators of Nazi concentration camp victims at the end of World War II, or were they knowing and apathetic bystanders of unspeakable brutality and annihilation? This question has long haunted historians, who hotly debate what the United States knew about Hitler's gruesome Final Solution, when they knew it, and whether they should have intervened sooner. Wrapping historical narrative around 60 primary sources, including news clippings, speeches, letters, magazine articles, and government reports, this volume's three part organization chronicles what was unfolding in Nazi Germany through the lens of American reporters and writers, traces the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the US as well as its increasingly tight immigration policies, and then reveals Americans' horror upon the realization that the reports and stories of the Holocaust were not exaggerations or fabrications. An epilogue examines the complexity of historical interpretations and moral judgments that have evolved since 1945.
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- ISBN: 0312218192
- ISBN: 9780312218195
- ISBN: 0312133936
- ISBN: 9780312133931
- Physical Description: xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, ©1999.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Facing the Horrors -- The First Years of the Nazi Regime, 1933-1935 -- American Jewish Committee, from the "Jews in Nazi Germany, 1933" -- Letters of the American Friends Service Committee -- The anti-Nazi boycott -- Mainstream views -- Personal American press reports from Hitler's Germany -- Exclusion, Emigration, and War, 1935-1941 -- Participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Jews, African Americans, and others -- Refugees, Kristallnacht, and Coughlin -- An Atlantic Monthly symposium on Jews -- The Lindbergh controversy -- Imagining the Unimaginable, 1942-1945 -- The Nazi war against the Jews -- American knowledge and comprehension -- Extermination camps revealed -- Views of the liberations -- The Changing Historical Perspective. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirtland Community College Library | D 804.19 .A29 1999 | 30775305539810 | General Collection | Available | - |
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America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 : A Brief Documentary History
Were Americans heroic liberators of Nazi concentration camp victims at the end of World War II, or were they knowing and apathetic bystanders of unspeakable brutality and annihilation? This question has long haunted historians, who hotly debate what the United States knew about Hitler's gruesome Final Solution, when they knew it, and whether they should have intervened sooner. Wrapping historical narrative around 60 primary sources--including news clippings, speeches, letters, magazine articles, and government reports--this volume's three part organization chronicles what was unfolding in Nazi Germany through the lens of American reporters and writers, traces the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the US as well as its increasingly tight immigration policies, and then reveals Americans' horror upon the realization that the reports and stories of the Holocaust were not exaggerations or fabrications. An epilogue examines the complexity of historical interpretations and moral judgments that have evolved since 1945.
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