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The Holocaust and the Jews
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of the Holocaust |
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The
Holocaust (also called Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period
from January 30, 1933, when Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to
May 8, 1945 (V-E Day), when the war in Europe ended. During this
time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsh
persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5
million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish
communities. These deaths represented 2/3rds of European Jewry and
1/3 of world Jewry. The Jews who died were not casualties of the
fighting that ravaged Europe during World War II. Rather, they were
the victims of Germany's deliberate and systematic attempt to
annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe, a plan Hitler
called "the Final Solution" (Endlosung). From
Detroit's The
Holocaust Memorial Center web guide. |
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Plan a Visit to a
Holocaust Museum |
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Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII - This devastating account
of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), who became Pope
Pius XII in 1939, is all the more powerful because British historian John
Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly critical tone. |
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XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy . Sanchez,
a professor of history at St. Louis University, thoughtfully examines the
various arguments on both sides of a controversy that will likely never be
resolved. In doing so, he presents a dispassionate, thoroughly documented tome
that exhibits a high degree of fairness. |
·Schindler's
List
 How
the German Oskar Schindler came to save more than
one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust is
one of the most fascinating stories of the
century. |
| ·Schindler's
Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors
Seventy-five real-life Schindler's List survivors
share their personal accounts of the Holocaust,
their encounters with Schindler, their experiences
after the war, and their reunions with the man who
had saved their lives. |
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America
& The Holocaust (1994)
VHS
This very
well made documentary, AMERICA AND THE
HOLOCAUST was part of the made for
television series, "The American
Experience." Partly narrated by of one
of three children of the German Jewish Klein
family who in 1936 emigrated to the United
States, we are taken through developments in
Germany leading to the "Final Solution." |
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IBM
and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance
between Nazi Germany and America's Most
Powerful Corporation
Black,
a son of Holocaust survivors, is less
tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but
his thesis is no less provocative: he argues
that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the
Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor)
awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest
customer on earth. "IBM, primarily
through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's
program of Jewish destruction a technologic
mission the company pursued with chilling
success," writes Black. "IBM had
almost single-handedly brought modern
warfare into the information age [and]
virtually put the 'blitz' in the krieg." |
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Henry
Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of
Hate
Henry Ford was
not only one of America's great
industrialists, he was also one of America's
great haters. With "his rambling
mouth" and his "volatile passions
and budgetless financial resources,"
Ford became famous around the country and
the world for his rabid anti-Semitism.
"He did not like the Jews because he
believed they were warmongering,
manipulative, and alien," writes Neil
Baldwin. A pacifist, Ford blamed the First
World War on "German-Jewish
bankers." In the 1920s, he published
The Dearborn Independent, which featured
notorious articles such as "The
International Jew: The World's
Problem." In 1938, he became the first
American recipient of a Nazi award bestowed
upon non-Germans. |
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