The Story of an Underground: Resistance of the Jews of Kovno in the Second World War
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Archiv für August 2016
Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps
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From Liberal Theology to Völkisch Christianity? Heinrich Weinel, the Volkskirchenbund, and the Church Struggle in Thuringia
For much of his career, New Testament scholar and systematic theologian Heinrich Weinel promoted theological pluralism, progressive politics, and humanitarian ideals. However, near the end of his life he gave qualified support to the Deutsche Christen, a movement that sought to establish a „German Christianity“ informed by Nazi ideology. Examination of Weinel’s published works, unpublished manuscripts, and private correspondence reveals that his support for the Deutsche Christen was a strategic compromise, driven by situational factors and limited ideological affinity rather than a thoroughgoing embrace of völkisch (populist/racist) Christianity. Weinel’s story represents one of many paths to complicity within the German churches during the Third Reich.
From Humanitarian Relief to Holocaust Rescue: Tracy Strong Jr., Vichy Internment Camps, and the Maison des Roches in Le Chambon
American relief worker Tracy Strong Jr. played a key role in obtaining the transfer of young prisoners from Vichy internment camps in southern France to the Maison des Roches—a residence that he helped establish in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon—an…
The Fate of Indigenous and Soviet Central Asian Jews in Afghanistan, 1933-1951
Starting in 1933 the government of Afghanistan began excluding Jews from trade, forced them to move from frontiers to the main cities, and declared a policy of forcing all Jews to leave the country. British, British Indian, and American records, inclu…
Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust
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Primo Levi’s Gray Zone: Implications for Post-Holocaust Ethics
The Holocaust calls into question the very possibility of ethics. In his landmark book The Drowned and the Saved (first published in 1986), Primo Levi introduced the notion of a moral „gray zone.“ The author of this essay re-examines Levi’s use of the…
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942: A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania’s Contested Borderlands
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American Consuls and the Politics of Rescue in Marseille, 1936-1941
An extensive literature portrays Harry Bingham, who served as American vice consul in Marseille, France between 1936 and 1941, as the single American diplomat who defied the Department of State’s restrictive policy toward European Jewish refugees. How…
Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence
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