Table of Contents
List of Figures List of Abbreviations
Prologue: The Gray Zones of the Holocaust Jonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth
Part I: Ambiguity and Compromise in Writing and Depicting Holocaust History
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Ambiguities of Evil and Justice: Degussa, Robert Pross, and the Jewish Slave Laborers at Gleiwitz Peter Hayes
Chapter 2. “Alleviation” and “Compliance”: The Survival Strategies of the Jewish Leadership in the Wierzbnik Ghetto and the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps Christopher R. Browning
Chapter 3. Between Sanity and Insanity: Spheres of Everyday Life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando Gideon Greif
Chapter 4. Sonderkommando: Testimony from Evidence Michael Berenbaum
Chapter 5. A Commentary on “Gray Zones” in Raul Hilberg’s Work Gerhard L. Weinberg
Chapter 6. Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography Raul Hilberg
Part II: Identity, Gender, and Sexuality During and After the Third Reich
Introduction
Chapter 7. Choiceless Choices: Surviving on False Papers on the “Aryan” Side Robert Melson
Chapter 8. “Who Am I?” The Struggle for Religious Identity of Jewish Children Hidden by Christians During the Shoah Eva Fleischner
Chapter 9. Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers Bryan Mark Rigg
Chapter 10. A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men: Confusion in the Discrimination Against Homosexuals in the Wehrmacht Geoffrey J. Giles
Chapter 11. Pleasure and Evil: Christianity and the Sexualization of Holocaust Memory Dagmar Herzog
Chapter 12. The Gender of Good and Evil: Women and Holocaust Memory Sara R. Horowitz
Part III: Gray Spaces: Geographical and Imaginative Landscapes
Introduction
Chapter 13. Hitler’s “Garden of Eden” in Ukraine: Nazi Colonialism, Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust, 1941–1944 Wendy Lower
Chapter 14. Life and Death in the “Gray Zone” of Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe: The Unknown, the Ambiguous, and the Disappeared Martin Dean
Chapter 15. “Almost-Camps” in Paris: The Difficult Description of Three Annexes of Drancy—Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944 Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Chapter 16. Alternate Holocausts and the Mistrust of Memory Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Chapter 17. Laughter and Heartache: The Functions of Humor in Holocaust Tragedy Lynn Rapaport
Chapter 18. The Holocaust in Popular Culture: Master-Narrative and Counter-Narratives in the Gray Zone Ronald Smelser
Chapter 19. The Grey Zone: The Cinema of Choiceless Choices Lawrence Baron
Part IV: Justice, Religion, and Ethics During and After the Holocaust
Introduction
Chapter 20. Gray into Black: The Case of Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski Richard L. Rubenstein
Chapter 21. Catalyzing Fascism: Academic Science in National Socialist Germany and Afterward Jeffrey Lewis
Chapter 22. Postwar Justice and the Treatment of Nazi Assets Jonathan Petropoulos
Chapter 23. The Gray Zones of Holocaust Restitution: American Justice and Holocaust Morality Michael J. Bazyler
Chapter 24. The Creation of Ethical “Gray Zones” in the German Protestant Church: Reflections on the Historical Quest for Ethical Clarity Victoria J. Barnett
Chapter 25. 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
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