Archiv für August 2013

Recent Developments in the Study of the Armenian Genocide

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Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany, Christopher J. Probst (Bloomington: Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), xvi + 251 pp., illus., hardcover $70.00, paperback $25.00, electronic edition available

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Death Sentence Despite the Law: A Secret 1962 Crimes-against-Humanity Trial in Kiev

Shortly before the 1962 trial of twelve previously-convicted collaborators and death camp guards, then-Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev signed a resolution suspending the principle of lex prospicit, non respicit (the law…

The Genesis of Vichy’s Jewish Statute of October 1940

Of all the measures adopted by the Vichy regime, the law of October 3, 1940, defining the status of Jews, is undoubtedly the best known. Yet, there are few scholarly works on the genesis of this law. This article reconsiders the commonly accepted thes…

Building after Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011), xi + 448 pp., hardcover $50.00

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„Pouring Jewish Water into Fascist Wine“: Untold Stories of (Catholic) Jews from the Archive of Mussolini’s Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Robert Aleksander Maryks (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012), 395 pp., hardcover $136.00, electronic version available

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„Euthanasia,“ Human Experiments, and Psychiatry in Nazi-Occupied Lithuania, 1941-1944

During World War II the Nazis sponsored the practice of „euthanasia“ (the killing of medical patients) outside Germany as well as within the Reich. While responsibility for the starvation of psychiatric patients and other medical abuses in Lithuania r…

Carl Goerdeler and the Jewish Question, 1933-1942, Peter Hoffmann (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), xix + 193 pp., hardcover $81.00, {pound}53.00; paperback $23.99, electronic version available

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The 1941 Galician Deportation and the Kamenets-Podolsk Massacre: A Prologue to the Hungarian Holocaust

The German attack against the Soviet Union, beginning on June 22, 1941, presented an unparalleled opportunity for the Hungarian government to deport Jews from Hungary to Galicia during a six-week period in the summer of 1941. The deportations of 22,00…