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The Holocaust

Book reviews

Reviews in History is an electronic publication which reviews and reappraises significant work in all fields of historical interest, covering the principal areas of the subject as taught in institutions of higher education. As well as featuring reviews of individual books, Reviews in History also contains review articles that examine a range of books available on a highlighted topic.

Anti-Semitism before the Holocaust
Albert S. Lindemann
Rethinking the Holocaust
Yehuda Bauer
Neighbors: the Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Jan T. Gross
Reviewed by John Klier
Professor Lindemann's response

Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction
Götz Aly and Susanne Heim
Reviewed by Jeremy Noakes

Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory
Donald Bloxham
Reviewed by Wendy Toon

Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
Robert Gellately
Reviewed by Conan Fischer

German National Identity after the Holocaust
Mary Fulbrook
Reviewed by Donald Bloxham

Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Louise London
Reviewed by Sean Kelly

The Destruction of the European Jews
Raul Hilberg
Reviewed by Tom Lawson

Words to Outlive Us: Words from the Warsaw Ghetto
Michal Grynberg (ed.)
Ghetto Diary
Janusz Korczak
Secret City: the Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945
Gunnar S. Paulson,
Reviewed by Tim Cole

Concentration camp jacket

Concentration camp jacket.


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