Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its AftermathJonathan Petropoulos, John Roth Berghahn Books, 2005 M07 1 - 440 pages Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain--lest resolution deceive us--will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Between Sanity and Insanity | 37 |
Testimony from Evidence | 61 |
Chapter 5 A Commentary on Gray Zones in Raul Hilbergs Work | 70 |
Chapter 6 Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography | 81 |
Identity Gender and Sexuality During and After the Third Reich | 93 |
Chapter 15 AlmostCamps in Paris | 222 |
Chapter 16 Alternate Holocausts and the Mistrust of Memory | 240 |
Chapter 17 Laughter and Heartache | 252 |
Chapter 18 The Holocaust in Popular Culture | 270 |
Chapter 19 The Grey Zone | 286 |
Justice Religion and Ethics During and After the Holocaust | 293 |
Chapter 20 Gray into Black | 299 |
Chapter 21 Catalyzing Fascism | 311 |
Chapter 7 Choiceless Choices | 97 |
Chapter 8 Who am I? The Struggle for Religious Identity of Jewish Children Hidden by Christians During the Shoah | 107 |
Chapter 9 Hitlers Jewish Soldiers | 118 |
Chapter 10 A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men | 127 |
Chapter 11 Pleasure and Evil | 147 |
Chapter 12 The Gender of Good and Evil | 165 |
Gray Spaces Geographical and Imaginative Landscapes | 179 |
Chapter 13 Hitlers Garden of Eden in Ukraine | 185 |
Chapter 14 Life and Death in the Gray Zone of Jewish Ghettos in NaziOccupied Europe | 205 |
Chapter 22 Postwar Justice and the Treatment of Nazi Assets | 325 |
Chapter 23 The Gray Zones of Holocaust Restitution | 339 |
Chapter 24 The Creation of Ethical Gray Zones in the German Protestant Church | 360 |
Chapter 25 GrayZoned Ethics | 372 |
Epilogue | 390 |
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About the Editors and Contributors | 399 |
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