Author: James G. McDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Advocate for the Doomed
Author: James G. McDonaldAdvocate for the Doomed
Author: James G. McDonaldPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253348625
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886–1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of U.S. ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany, in 1933 he became League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and sought aid from the international community to resettle outside the Reich Jews and others persecuted there. In late 1935 he resigned in protest at the lack of support for his work. This is the eagerly awaited first of a projected three-volume work that will significantly revise the ways that scholars and the world view the antecedents of the Holocaust, the Shoah itself, and its aftermath.
The diaries and papers of James G. McDonald
Author: James Grover McDonaldPublisher:
ISBN: 9780253348623
Category : Antisemitism
Languages : en
Pages :
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Advocate for the Doomed
Author: James G. McDonaldHitler's Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938
Author: Julius FeinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793622299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Julius Fein examines the French response to the large number of German refugees between 1933 and 1938. Fein demonstrates how the Quai d’Orsay sought a compromise between the Republican canon, which said France must help the persecuted, and the factors that limited its willingness to accept refugees, including economic depression, mass unemployment, anti-Semitism, and anti-German sentiment.
Uprooting the Diaspora
Author: Sarah A. CramseyPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025306497X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In Uprooting the Diaspora, Sarah Cramsey explores how the Jewish citizens rooted in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia became the ideal citizenry for a post–World War II Jewish state in the Middle East. She asks, how did new interpretations of Jewish belonging emerge and gain support amongst Jewish and non-Jewish decision makers exiled from wartime east central Europe and the powerbrokers surrounding them? Usually, the creation of the State of Israel is cast as a story that begins with Herzl and is brought to fulfillment by the Holocaust. To reframe this trajectory, Cramsey draws on a vast array of historical sources to examine what she calls a "transnational conversation" carried out by a small but influential coterie of Allied statesmen, diplomats in international organizations, and Jewish leaders who decided that the overall disentangling of populations in postwar east central Europe demanded the simultaneous intellectual and logistical embrace of a Jewish homeland in Palestine as a territorial nationalist project. Uprooting the Diaspora slows down the chronology between 1936 and 1946 to show how individuals once invested in multi-ethnic visions of diasporic Jewishness within east central Europe came to define Jewishness primarily in ethnic terms. This revolution in thinking about Jewish belonging combined with a sweeping change in international norms related to population transfers and accelerated, deliberate postwar work on the ground in the region to further uproot Czechoslovak and Polish Jews from their prewar homes.
The Berlin Mission
Author: Richard BreitmanPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541742176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the US consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come In 1929, Raymond Geist went to Berlin as a consul and handled visas for emigrants to the US. Just before Hitler came to power, Geist expedited the exit of Albert Einstein. Once the Nazis began to oppress Jews and others, Geist's role became vitally important. It was Geist who extricated Sigmund Freud from Vienna and Geist who understood the scale and urgency of the humanitarian crisis. Even while hiding his own homosexual relationship with a German, Geist fearlessly challenged the Nazi police state whenever it abused Americans in Germany or threatened US interests. He made greater use of a restrictive US immigration quota and secured exit visas for hundreds of unaccompanied children. All the while, he maintained a working relationship with high Nazi officials such as Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, and Hermann Göring. While US ambassadors and consuls general cycled in and out, the indispensable Geist remained in Berlin for a decade. An invaluable analyst and problem solver, he was the first American official to warn explicitly that what lay ahead for Germany's Jews was what would become known as the Holocaust.
The Holocaust
Author: Norman J.W. GodaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429839863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The second edition of this book frames the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from varied international responses to the Jewish question during an age of global crisis and war. The chapters are arranged chronologically, thematically, and geographically, reflecting how persecution, responses, and experience varied over time and place, conveying a sense of the Holocaust’s complexity. Fully updated, this edition incorporates the past decade’s scholarship concerning perpetrators, victims, and bystanders from political, national, and gendered perspectives. It also frames the Holocaust within the broader genocide perspective and within current debates on memory politics and causation. Global in approach and supported by images, maps, diverse voices, and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal textbook for students of this catastrophic period in world history.
doomed
Author: Herbert SmetanPublisher: novum publishing
ISBN: 1642686042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 723
Book Description
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where minimal changes in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can lead to large differences in a later stage. Beyond the climate sciences, the concept of the domino effect is similarly used as a broader term for any situation in which a relatively minor change is expected to cause significant black swan events. In this context, the simple flap of a butterfly's wings can trigger tornados in far distant regions. But it was not long before the beginning of this millennium that almost simultaneously and everywhere such butterflies began to swarm. Under these circumstances, the Doomsday Clock appears to have lost its pendulum as its hands spin faster and faster. Any serious problem like this requires a devil's advocate to hold up the worst-case scenario to the public, so they simply cannot look away. As a former chief executive officer, the author is well aware of the importance of psycho-sociologically driven collective behaviors—no matter the state of affairs. That's why the novelist focused on the underlying group dynamics with regard to an imminent ecological apocalypse when he plotted the storyline on hand. His protagonist, a man, badly scarred by the suicide of his wife, who wanted to take him with her to the death, fulfils the most ardent wish of his youth and goes on a circumnavigation of the globe on the yacht La Vie—which he reconstructed from a mere wreck. Nevertheless, even in the remotest corners of the earth, he cannot escape himself. On his journey, he meets strong women who lead him back to life. Together they develop an ingenious gambit to save our planet Earth from an environmental doomsday after all—and provocatively hold up a mirror to society. A passionate novel about perseverance and an escape from one's own failures along winding paths, authentically told by an author who draws on a wealth of life experience. A story that illustrates that every failure carries the immanent obligation to change.
Statelessness
Author: Mira L. SiegelbergPublisher:
ISBN: 0674976312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The post-WWI crisis of statelessness induced creative legal thinking, as officials and jurists debated cosmopolitan citizenship beyond the borders of sovereigns. But by midcentury the state won out as the lone site of citizenship. Mira Siegelberg uncovers the ideological roots of this transformation and its impact on the international order.