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Gray zones : ambiguity and compromise in the Holocaust and its aftermath /

"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 ide...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Petropoulos, Jonathan (Editor ), Roth, John K. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.
Colección:War and genocide ; v. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The ambiguities of evil and justice : Degussa, Robert Pross, and the Jewish slave laborers at Gleiwitz / Peter Hayes
  • 'Alleviation' and 'compliance' : the survival strategies of the Jewish leadership in the Wierzbnik Ghetto and the Starachowice factory slave labor camps / Christopher R. Browning
  • Between sanity and insanity : spheres of everyday life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando / Gideon Greif
  • Sonderkommando : testimony from Evidence / Michael Berenbaum
  • A commentary on 'gray zones' in Raul Hilberg's work / Gerhard L. Weinberg
  • Incompleteness in Holocaust historiography / Raul Hilberg
  • Choiceless choices : surviving on false papers on the 'aryan' side / Robert Melson
  • 'Who am I?' the struggle for religious identity of Jewish children hidden by Christians during the Shoah / Eva Fleischner
  • Hitler's Jewish soldiers / Bryan Mark Rigg
  • A gray zone among the field gray men : confusion in the discrimination against homosexuals in the Wehrmacht / Geoffrey J. Giles
  • Pleasure and evil : Christianity and the sexualization of Holocaust memory / Dagmar Herzog
  • The gender of good and evil : women and Holocaust memory / Sara R. Horowitz
  • Hitler's 'Garden of Eden' in Ukraine : Nazi colonialism, Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust, 1941-1944 / Wendy Lower
  • Life and death in the 'gray zone' of Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe : the unknown, the ambiguous, and the disappeared / Martin Dean
  • 'Almost-camps' in Paris : the difficult description of three annexes of Drancy : Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944 / Jean-Marc Dreyfus
  • Alternate Holocausts and the mistrust of memory / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
  • Laughter and heartache : the functions of humor in holocaust tragedy / Lynn Rapaport
  • The Holocaust in popular culture : master-narrative and counter-narratives in the gray zone / Ronald Smelser
  • The grey zone : the cinema of choiceless choices / Lawrence Baron
  • Gray into black : the case of Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski / Richard L. Rubenstein
  • Catalyzing Fascism : academic science in National Socialist Germany and afterward / Jeffrey Lewis
  • Postwar justice and the treatment of Nazi assets / Jonathan Petropoulos
  • The gray zones of Holocaust restitution : American justice and Holocaust morality / Michael J. Bazyler
  • The creation of ethical 'gray zones' in the German protestant church : reflections on the historical quest for ethical clarity / Victoria J. Barnett
  • 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.