By Claudia Moscovici. Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. Many fear that this important event may fall into oblivion yet there have been hundreds of memoirs, histories and novels written about it. Holocaust Memories includes reviews of the many memoirs, histories,…

By Felix Römer. Translated by Alex J. Kay. Comrades is a new history of the mentalities of ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers, based on recently discovered intelligence records from the American interrogation camp Fort Hunt near Washington, where German prisoners of war were interned and secretly listened in on during the Second World War. US Military Intelligence captured…

By Marc Crépon. Translated by Michael Loriaux and Jacob Levi. This book details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it’s classically understood. Marc Crépon insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence…

Edited by Jeffrey S. Bachman. This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences. Through a systematic approach and comprehensive analysis, international and interdisciplinary contributors from the fields of genocide studies, legal studies, criminology, sociology, archaeology, human rights, colonial…

Edited by Ira Brenner. This book is a unique compilation of essays about the genocidal persecution fueling the Nazi regime in World War II. Authors from four continents offer their perspectives, clinical experiences, findings, and personal narratives on such subjects as resilience, remembrance, giving testimony, aging and mourning. There is an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission…

Edited by Maria Björkman, Patrik Lundell and Sven Widmalm. This book investigates the rather neglected “intellectual” collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among “pro-German” intellectuals, using a comparative approach. These moves were shaped by the Nazi system, which viewed scientific and cultural exchange as part and parcel of their cultural…

Edited by Allan Thompson. Media and Mass Atrocity revisits the debate over the role of traditional news media in Rwanda, where, confronted by the horrors taking place, international news media, for the most part, turned away, and at times muddled the story when they did pay attention. Hate-media outlets in Rwanda played a role in…

By Carolyn J. Dean. The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the “witness to genocide” in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s—covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet…

Edited by Steven T. Katz. The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side. The distinctive feature of this book, both individually and as a collection, is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo-centric point of view. The present essays make a unique…

By Hans Derks. In this book, historian Hans Derks explains how more than 75% of the Jewish population was arrested, deported or murdered in concentration camps during the Shoah in the Netherlands by looking closely at the social and religious characteristics of Dutch society. He also unveils the extensive collaboration of the country’s state-bureaucracy with the German…