Bystanders to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation

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Routledge, 2014 M06 3 - 303 pages
Using accessible archival sources, a team of historians reveal how much the USA, Britain, Switzerland and Sweden knew about the Nazi attempt to murder all the Jews of Europe during World War II.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Towards a Taxonomy of Rescuers in a Bystander Country Britain 193345
28
Pissing in the Wind? The Search for Nuance in the Study of Holocaust Bystanders
57
Constructing Allied Humanitarian Policy
77
Switzerland National Socialist Policy and the Legacy of History
103
The Lost Honour of the Bystanders? The Case of Jewish Emissaries in Switzerland
146
The War is Over Now You Can Go Home Jewish Refugees and the Swedish Labour Market in the Shadow of the Holocaust
171
A Study of Antisemitic Attitudes within Swedens Wartime Utlänningsbyrån
199
Comparing the Responses of Midlevel Bureaucrats to the Holocaust
212
Folke Bernadotte and the White Buses
237
Conclusion
269
Abstracts
273
Notes on Contributors
279
Index
281
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Paul A. Levine, David Cesarani

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