Beyond “Ordinary Men” Christopher R. Browning and Holocaust Historiography

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Contents Illustrations Foreword Introduction Part One Ordinary Men, Ordinary Women: Perpetrator Research Reconsidered Chapter 1 Ordinary Men and the Women in Their Shadows: Gender Issues in the Holocaust Scholarship of Christopher R. Browning Chapter 2 “Ordinary Drinkers” and Ordinary “Males”? Alcohol, Masculinity, and Atrocity in the Holocaust Chapter 3 “Ordinary Christians” in Nazi Germany Chapter 4 The Perpetrators of the November 1938 Pogrom through German-Jewish Eyes Part Two Contexts of Agency and the Holocaust Chapter 5 Exploitation and Extermination: Jewish SlaveLabour on the Baltic Coast, 1941-1943 Chapter 6 “Palästina-Austausch”: Jewish Emigration from Europe to Palestine during the Final Solution Chapter 7 More than Helpers: Women’s Roles in “Communities of Rescue” in the Bohemian Lands, 1938-1939 Chapter 8 Lutétia: A Luxury Hotel in Paris Meets the Holocaust Part Three Interpreting Ideology and Social Practice Chapter 9 Nazi Plans for Addressing the Jewish Problem: From “Fringe Irritant” (1929) to the “Machtergreifung” (1933) Chapter 10 The Nazi Glorification of Death and Denigration of Suffering Chapter 11 What Remains of “the Banality of Evil”? Part Four The Historian and the Public Chapter 12 The Universalisation of the Holocaust as a Moral Standard Chapter 13 History of Society and Holocaust Research: Thoughts on a Tenuous Relationship Chapter 14 The Three-Legged Antisemitic Stool of Holocaust Denial: Illogic, Wilful Distortions, and Camouflaged Discourse Chapter 15 Police, History, Responsibility: The Impact of Ordinary Men on the Perpetration Debate at German Memorial Sites and in Current Police Training Part Five Sources and Their Readings Chapter 16 The “Euthanasia” Murders Archive: Confronting the New Findings Chapter 17 Depicting “Ordinary Men”: Browning, Goldhagen, and the Historiographic Use of Perpetrator Photographs Chapter 18 Unravelling Janowska: Excavating an Understudied Camp through Spatial Testimonies Chapter 19 Particularist and Universalist Interpretations of the Holocaust: A Complex Relationship Commentary Ordinary Men and Beyond: Reflections on an Historiographical Journey List of Publications by Christopher R. Browning About the Contributors Index