A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis

264 Pages·1990·13.237 MB·English

by  Michael Berenbaum (editor)

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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Theology Library
CLAREMONT
SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
Claremont, CA
Copyright © 1990 by New York University
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A mosaic of victims : non-Jews persecuted and murdered by the Nazis /
edited by Michael Berenbaum.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8147-1131-6 (alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8147-1175-8 (pbk.)
1. World:War, 1939-1945—Atrocities. 2. World War, 1939-1945-
—Prisoners and prisons, German. J. Berenbaum, Michael, 1945—
D804.G4M63 1990
940.54'05—dc20 89-13784
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New York University Press books are printéd on acid-free paper,
and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.
Book design by Ken Venezio
To my aunt and uncle,
Lottie and Henry Neiblum, of Tucson, Arizona,
who taught me the values of courage and quiet dignity
and the importance of stoicism.
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Contents
Foreword xi
Carol Rittner, R.S.M.
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
CHAPTERI
Moderandn thie Pozlitaics tof iExteorminnati on 3
RichL.a Rurbendste in
CHAPTER 2
The Uniqueness and Universality of the Holocaust zo
Michael Berenbaum
CHAPTER 3
Nazi Germany's Forced Labor Program 37
Edward Homze .
CHAPTER 4
Forced Labor in the Concentration Camps, 1g42-1944 46
Peter Black
CHAPTER5
Germans and Serbs: The Emergence of Nazi Antipartisam
Policiesi n 1941 64
ChristoR.p Bhroewnrin g
CHAPTER 6
Genocide in Satellite Croatia during the Second World War 7
Menachem Shelah
CHAPTER 7
German Occupation Policy in Belgium and France 80
Sybil Milton
CHAPTER 8
The Polish Experience during the Holocaust 88
Richard C. Lukas
CHAPTER 9
The Victimization of the Poles 96
Israel Gutman
CHAPTER IO
Slavs and Jews: Consistent and Inconsistent Perspectives
on the Holocaust 101
Bohdan Vitvitsky
CHAPTER II
The Holocaust and the Ukrainian Victims 109
Aharon Weiss
CHAPTER 12
The Ukrainian Losses during World War II 116
Taras Hunczak
CHAPTER 13
The German Occupation Regime on Occupied Territory in
the USSR (1941-1944) 128
Georgily A. Kumanev
CHAPTER 14
The Fate of the Soviet Prisoners of War 142
Christian Streit
CHAPTER I5 %
Non-Jewish Children in the Camps 150
Sybil Milton
Vill CONTENTS
CHAPTER 16
Non-Jewish Victims in the Concentration Camps 161
Konnilyn Feig
CHAPTER 17
Between Cross and Swastika: The Position of German Catholicism 179
John S. Conway
CHAPTER 18
Jehovah's Witnesses under Nazism 188
Christine King
CHAPTER 19
Pacifists during the Third Reich 194
Gordon C. Zahn
CHAPTER 20
Gay Prisoners in Concentration Camps as Compared with
Jehovah’s Witnesses and Political Prisoners 200
Ruediger Lautmann
CHAPTER 21
The Fate of Gypsies in Czechoslovakia under Nazi Domination 207
Jiri Lipa
CHAPTER 22
Doubling: The Acts of the Second Self 216
Robert Jay Lifton
CHAPTER 23
Sterilization and Euthanasia 222
Robert Jay Lifton
Contributors 229
Index 233
CONTENTS 1X