The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Contributors
Pt. I	History of the Holocaust	1
1	From Religious Prejudice to Racism	3
1.1	Images of Jews in the Medieval Period	7
1.2	The Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther, 1543	8
1.3	Political Statement by Adolf Hitler, September 16, 1919	10
2	The Creation of a Racist Society	13
2.1	Signs of Racism, Symbols of Segregation	18
2.2	Excerpts from the Texts of the Nuremberg Laws	20
2.3	Combating the Gypsy Nuisance by Heinrich Himmler, December 8, 1938	24
2.4	Report on Crystal Night from Berlin	25
2.5	Public Reactions to the Yellow Star and Deportations	26
3	The Killing Process	30
3.1	Protocol of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942	38
3.2	Images of the Warsaw Ghetto	47
3.3	Excerpt from the Warsaw Ghetto Diary of Avraham Levin, Friday, June 5, 1942	48
3.4	Chaim Rumkowski's Address on the Deportation of the Children from the Lodz Ghetto, September 4, 1942	48
3.5	The Jager Report	50
3.6	Testimony of Hermann Graebe, November 10, 1945	58
3.7	Excerpts from There Once Was a World by Yaffa Eliach	59
3.8	German Railway Schedule, January 16, 1943	61
3.9	Abraham Kszepicki on Treblinka	64
4	Resistance and Rescue	71
4.1	Olga Lengyel, Resister in Auschwitz	78
4.2	From Page 12 of the Nashville Tennessean, June 30, 1942: 1,000,000 Jews Said Killed by Germans	80
4.3	Bishop of Munster, Clemens August Count von Galen, Protests "Euthanasia" Killings, August 3, 1941	81
4.4	Magda Trocme (of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon) in The Courage to Care	82
Pt. II	Representations of the Holocaust in the Arts	91
5	Language and the Holocaust	93
5.1	A Comparison of Names	94
6	Literature and the Holocaust	100
	Prose	100
6.1	Discussion of Elie Wiesel's Night	101
6.2	Discussion of Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale	104
6.3	Discussion of Tadeusz Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen	110
6.4	Discussion of Ida Fink's "The Shelter"	111
	Poetry	112
6.5	The Butterfly by Pavel Friedmann	113
6.6	For My Child by Abraham Sutzkever	114
6.7	Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car by Dan Pagis	115
6.8	You Onlookers by Nelly Sachs	116
7	Monuments and Memorials	121
7.1	Warsaw Ghetto Monument	125
7.2	Treblinka	128
8	Photographs	131
8.1	Selection of Hungarian Jews for Extermination	132
8.2	Tower of Faces, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.	133
8.3	General Dwight Eisenhower and Other Officers Examine Corpses at Ohrdruf, April 12, 1945	135
9	Film	137
9.1	Discussion of Au revoir les enfants (Good-bye Children)	138
9.2	Discussion of Night and Fog (Nuit et brouilliard)	142
Pt. III	Other Genocides	147
10	The Armenian Genocide	149
	The Armenians in the Ottomen Empire	150
	The Armenians Under the Young Turks	151
	Genocide	153
	Perpetrators, Bystanders, Rescuers	154
	International Response	155
10.1	Pan-Turkism: Excerpt from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau	159
10.2	The Deportations: Excerpt from the Report of Lieutenant Sayied Ahmed Moukhtar Baas, December 26, 1916	160
10.3	Talaat: Excerpt from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau	162
10.4	An Ambiguous Rescue Story: Excerpt from the Testimony of Aram Kilichjian	166
10.5	Report to the German Government: Letter from Ambassador Wolff-Metternich to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, July 10, 1916	167
10.6	Germany's Interests: Meeting of the Imperial Budget Committee, September 29, 1916, Notes of the State Secretary	168
10.7	Starting Over? Excerpt from Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past by Peter Balakian	169
11	Bosnia and Kosovo	179
	Background	180
11.1	Peter Maass in Conversation with a Serbian Woman	188
11.2	Chronology of "Ethnic Cleansing"	189
11.3	Images of War by Children of Former Yugoslavia	190
11.4	The Mind of the Perpetrators	193
11.5	Days in the Life of Bosnian Inmates, 1992	193
12	Rwanda	201
	Tutsis and Hutus	202
	Ideology and Propaganda	203
	The Killing Begins	204
	Perpetrators, Bystanders, Rescuers	205
	International Response	206
	Aftermath	206
12.1	Excerpt from Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda by Alison Des Forges	208
12.2	The Hutu Ten Commandments, 1990	210
12.3	The Interahamwe: Excerpt from an Interview with Gloriose Mukakanimba, May 21, 1994	211
12.4	The Corruption of Language: Common Euphemisms of the Holocaust and the Genocide in Rwanda	212
12.5	Initial Response of the U.S. Government: Excerpt from a PBS Frontline Interview with Tony Marley, a Former Official of the U.S. State Department	213
12.6	Excerpt from President Bill Clinton's Address to the People of Rwanda, March 25, 1998	216
Pt. IV	Ethics	223
13	Ethical Questioning	225
13.1	Is Prejudice a Prelude to Annihilation?	229
13.2	Is Genocide More Than Mass Murder?	232
13.3	What is a Choiceless Choice and the Extent of Moral Blame?	235
13.4	How Does Good Happen?	239
13.5	What Are the Limits of Forgiveness and Reconciliation?	241
13.6	How Have Christians Responded to the Holocaust?	244
13.7	What is the Relationship Between Ethics and Remembrance?	248
	Index	257