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'Excellent... an astounding amount of material.'
Times Educational Supplement Popular culture often portrays the Holocaust as a
horrific drama played out between Nazi executioners and ghetto Jewish victims -
in short, a single aberration of history. Introducing
the Holocaust is a powerful graphic guide that dissolves this
stereotype, explaining the causes and its relevance today. It places the
Holocaust where it belongs - at the centre of modern European and world
history. Haim Bresheeth and Stuart Hood - along with Litza
Jansz's outstanding illustrations - bring a unique and unforgettable perspective
to how we think about this most dark of shadows on human history.
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The Holocaust is what we call the Nazi attempt to destroy European Jewry. It was part of a vast operation in genocide which, between 1939 and 1945, caused the following deaths:
In Hebrew, the Holocaust is called Shoah - a great and terrible wind.
âHolocaustâ comes from the Greek. Holos means âwholeâ and caustos means âburntâ (as in caustic). Originally, it meant a sacrifice consumed by fire - a burnt offering. It came to mean âa sacrifice on a large scaleâ, and, by the end of the 17th century, âthe complete destruction of a large number of persons - a great slaughter or massacre.â
The Holocaust is an example of Genocide. âgenocideâ, which literally means the annihilation of a race, was first used in 1944.
The United Nations Convention of 1948 defines the crime of genocide as âacts committed to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religous group as such.â
There have been many cases of genocide in history. The Spanish conquerors slaughtered the Native Americans; whole peoples like the Caribs disappeared. Following on the colonization of North America, the Native Americans were massacred by the army or settlers.
In modern times there have been numerous genocides. Here are some of them:
1904-1905 | the annihilation of the Herero people in S.W. Africa by the German settlers and army | |
1915-1916 | the Turkish massacre of 1 million Armenians | |
1965-1966 | up to 1 million Communists and their families massacred by the Indonesian army | |
1972 | between 1 and 3 million Bengalis massacred by the Pakistan army | |
1972 | 100,000 to 150,000 Hutus massacred by the ruling Tutsi tribe in Burundi in West Africa | |
1975-1979 | up to 2 million Cambodians murdered by the Khmer Rouge in Kampuchea | |
1975 to the present | an estimated 200,000 islanders who wish to be independent massacred by the Indonesian army in East Timor | |
the continuing destruction of the Indians of the Brazilian rain forest | ||
the âethnic cleansingâ in former Yugoslavia |
Shoah - the Holocaust - was a case of Genocide. It was intended by the Nazis to be âthe final solutionâ of what they saw as âthe Jewish problemâ. The Nazisâ stated aim was to make the territories under their control Judenrein - cleansed of Jews. It was therefore an extreme case of âracial cleansingâ.
Its ideological basis was anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism
The word âanti-Semitismâ was indented in 1879 by a German racist called Wilhelm Marr (1818-1904).
But anti-Semitism as a phenomenon was many centuries older. It has its roots in religion.
The âGuiltâ of the Jews
Protestant Anti-Semitism
The Protestant church inherited the anti-Semitism of the Catholics. Martin Luther, the great reformer, denounced the Jews as âthe devilâs peopleâ, as âliars and bloodhoundsâ and âa bloody and revengeful peopleâ.
The Other
Communities tend to define some group or its representative as âthe Otherâ. âThe Otherâ is a figure on to whom they project their fears and aggressions. This occurs particularly at times when the community is threatened economically, physically or culturally. âThe Otherâ is usually different in some very obvious ways - skin colour, culture, dress or cuisine and âraceâ or nationality.
In Christian medieval Europe difference was forced upon the Jews. They were required to live in ghetto segregation. They were said to have a special smell - foetor Judaicus - just as other immigrants today are accused of having a âbad smellâ. Throughout the centuries in Europe, the Jew has been âthe Otherâ - different - set apart - by culture, by religion, by rituals, by dress (in some cases they were compelled to wear badges or specific robes), and by language. Many Jews have - as is their right - held very tenaciously to their differences.
The Jews and the Enlightenment
In the 18th century, the intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment produced the body of thought that led to the French Revolution. It believed in equality irrespective of race.
It was against superstition. All religions, including Christianity and Judaism, were viewed with equal scepticism. The important thing was human understanding and tolerance.
It was against superstition. All religions, including Christianity and Judaism, were viewed with equal scepticism. The important thing was human understanding and tolerance.
As a result of the Enlightenment, the 19th century was a period of assimilation when Jews were received into Gentile society.
But the success of the Jews in these various fields led to envy and criticism. Jewish entrepreneurs were seen as ânew menâ who exploited Jewish family and social networks (which extended across frontiers) to further their businesses in underhand and unfair ways
At the same time, Jews became increasingly associated with liberalism, radicalism, socialism and communism.
The idea took root in anti-Semitic circles that to do away with the Jews would at one fell swoop do away with capitalism and socialism.
âScientificâ Anti-Semitism
The Jews were Semites and not Aryans. They therefore constituted a foreign âOrientalâ element in European âAryanâ society. They were seen as being unproductive - that is to say not labourers or peasants and yet successful, particularly in commerce and banking, and powerful through their manipulation of the press, the stage and entertainment. Aryans, by contrast, were rooted in nationhood.
Jews were believed particularly dangerous, because when they did assimilate, even to the point of...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Anti-Semitism
- Biliography