Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust - Russell Wallis

Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust
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Autor: Russell Wallis

 Wydawnictwo: I.B. TAURIS
ISBN: 9781780763453
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Stron: 320
Data wydania: 2014-02-01
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In the 1930s, the British public's emotional response to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, including the bombing of Guernica, shaped the mass-politics of the age. Similarly, alleged German atrocities in World War I against the Belgians and the French had led to campaigns in Britain for donations to support the victims. Why then, was the British public seemingly less concerned with the treatment of Jews in Hitler's Germany? Outlining a 'hierarchy of compassion', Russell Wallis seeks to show how and why the Holocaust met initially with such a muted response in Britain. Drawing on primary source material, Wallis shows why the Nuremberg laws were reported without great protest, along with Kristallnacht and the creation of the Prague Ghetto. Even after the reality of the 'Final Solution' was announced by Anthony Eden to the British Parliament in 1942, the Holocaust remained a footnote to the war effort. Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust is a study of the British relationship with Germany in the period, and a dissection of British attitudes towards the genocide in Europe. Russell Wallis overturns one myth after another about British responses, public as well as governmental, to atrocities in other lands. For the first time, an historian has placed the reaction to German persecution of the Jews in a comprehensive, comparative framework. The result is a revelation, full of paradoxes and surprises. Using an impressive range of sources including private letters, diaries, the press, Mass Observation, and official documents, Wallis demonstrates the depth of empathy for Germans - even after the Great War - and the lingering antipathy towards Jews. While the British found room in their hearts for suffering Armenians, Chinese, Ethiopians, and Basque children, a significant slice of the public preferred to excuse German barbarity and blame the Jews for their own fate. This is revisionist history at its best: authoritative, compelling, and shocking. David Cesarani, Research Professor in History, Royal Holloway, University of London

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