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This was a reread, or really, a re-skim, to remind myself of a few facts. I do recommend this short book as a great introduction to the subject. It covers a lot of crucial aspects. I will mention a few here.1. The Uniqueness of the Holocaust. You will know that there is a tendency nowadays to say that the Holocaust is comparable to other genocidal events, like the Rwanda massacres, and other mass killings which were not genocidal, like the Khmer Rouges killing orgy 1975-77. The uniqueness proposed for the Holocaust is problematic. Sometimes to say the Holocaust is unique is a theological or a political statement, rather than a historical statement. There is a Jewish exclusivity in some historians which is dangerous, as millions of gentiles died too. But if uniqueness = unprecedented then historians can frame an answer. Marrus examines in detail the Armenian genocide by the Turkish government. He mentions that Armenians continued to live in Istanbul throughout the period, and at the end of it 140,000 Armenians were still living in Turkey, one tenth of the original population. The genocide lacked the totality of the Nazis and the ambition to exterminate every last Jew. In this respect the Jews’ fate was unique – the Holocaust included the old, the sick, women, babies. The Wannsee conference listed even the smallest Jewish communities, in Ireland and Albania (the SS carefully noted the existence of 200 Albanian Jews who were eventually to be rounded up and sent to the ovens)2. The Final Solution: the Straight Path or the Twisted Road.There is huge division amongst historians: the intentionalists say it was always Hitler’s and others’ intention to physically liquidate the Jews; and the functionalists, who say the Final Solution arose bit by bit, in response to changing situations on the ground. The intentionalists problem is that they have to rely on Hitler’s paranoid rhetoric in speeches and in Mein Kampf. Hitler’s speech on 20 January 1939 to the Reichstag: If the international Jewish financiers outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory of the Jews, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.But historians can find no actual planning of the genocide before 1941.Functionalists, however, present a picture of the Third Reich as a maze of competing power groups, rival bureaucracies, forceful personalities and diametrically opposed interests engaged in ceaseless clashes with each other. They see Hitler as a brooding and sometimes distant leader, who intervened only spasmodically, sending orders crashing through the system like bolts of lightning.(I think that is a brilliant description of the Third Reich.)Was Hitler capable of long term planning on this or any other matter?The functionalists therefore say that the SS in the famous 1942 Wannsee conference take over a process which has already broken out in occupied Soviet areas. These historians ask why the Final Solution had to wait until 1942 to get going. Their answer is that competing Nazi agencies put forward one proposal after the next, proposals that continually shattered against practical obstacles.For instance, getting rid of the Jews by shipping the whole lot of them off to Madagascar! This was seriously considered at one point.There is general agreement that the decision on the Final Solution was taken between March and Autumn 1941. What finally precipitated the decision, however, is likely to remain a mystery says Marrus.The functionalists ask the question: what accounts for the widespread elimination of inhibitions to mass murder? They find antisemitic indoctrination plainly insufficient. They say:- There was an extensive division of labour associated with the entire process which helped perpetrators diffuse their own responsibility.- The perpetrators themselves had no special characteristics; the essential element was the structure into which they fit. (and see Christopher Brownings brilliant book Ordinary Men for harrowing confirmation of this.)- They thought of themselves as merely skilled technicians and often seemed genuinely surprised when, years later, they were branded as accomplices to mass murder.- The process began with euthanasia of the physically and mentally handicapped. 3. Hitlers CollaboratorsThere is a very useful chapter surveying the degree of collaboration, and many surprising things are discovered.- French resistance or no, Marrus says the French collaborated to a high degree.- In Denmark and Italy the governments were able to put significant legal obstacles in the way of anti-Jewish policies. The Danes smuggled 800 Jews to Sweden. - Croatia and Romania on the other hand were especially antisemitic- but Romania spared its own Jewish population. - and Bulgaria is unique – there were more Jews alive there after the war than before.- The tragedy of Hungary is hard to contemplate - there the Jews were not deported, and it looked like they would survive, until the Nazis invaded in March 1944. 4.Bystanders.Almost everyone who lived through the period of the Holocaust, observing it from either near or far, will readily testify that information concerning the Nazi murder of the Jews, when it first came out, seemed absolutely unbelievable – impossible (Jacob Katz). To some, news of the Holocaust was everywhere; to others, the truth remained hidden until after the war. By early 42 reports regularly reached England about widespread massacres in Poland and the USSR, but the presence of such information does not mean that it was known. Judge at Nuremburg: One reads these accounts again and again – and yet remains the instinct to disbelieve, to question, to doubt. (Of course, this tendency is still with us, and fuels the denierspoisonous propaganda.) Martin Gilbert argues that until the escape of 4 Jews in mid-44 Auschwitz remained successfully hidden.Finally : 17 December 1942: a formal declaration by 12 national governments simultaneously declared in Washington, Moscow and London refers to Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe, a goal that the German authorities are now carrying into effect. It could hardly have been clearer, yet from then on the story is full of occasions when people either forgot or rejected what they once knew or showed signs of not having absorbed fully what the declaration clearly stated. Even in Palestine, the Jewish community of 500,000 showed a reluctance to believe and a slowness to grasp – amazingly, since the 500,000 were 80% Eastern European.In January 1945 Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army. In May 45 a report on the camp was issued by the Soviets. The report did not contain the word Jew.*For anyone wanting a really good introduction to a complex subject, and doesnt want to read one of the 800 page monsters like Leni Yahil or Martin Gilbert, look no further.
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