Book Reviews
Holocaust

Die Täter der Shoah. Fanatische Nationalsozialisten oder ganz normale Deutsche? Gerhard Paul, Hrsg. Reviewed by Stefan Laube

The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust. Lawrence Douglas. Reviewed by Craig Pepin

The Holocaust: The Third Reich and the Jews. David Engel. Reviewed by Bruce Campbell

Erinnern und Verstehen. Der Völkermord and den Juden im politischen Gedächtnis der Deutschen.  Hans Erler, Hrsg. Reviewed by Holger Thünemann

Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew.  Susan Gubar. Reviewed by Eric Sterling

Gestaltetes Gedenken. Yad Vashem, das U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum und die Stiftung Topographie des Terrors. Matthias Hass. Reviewed by Tanja Schult

National Socialist Extermination Policies: Contemporary Perspectives and Controversies. Ulrich Herbert, ed. Reviewed by Robert D. Levy

Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America. Alan Mintz. Reviewed by Tom Lawson

Hitler und der Holocaust. Robert S. Wistrich.  Kleine Weltgeschichte. Reviewed by Stefan Scheil

A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present. Second, expanded edition. Zvi Gitelman. Reviewed by Michael C. Hickey

In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews.  Steven E. Aschheim. Reviewed by Tracey J. Kinney

Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy. Susan Zuccotti. Reviewed by Glenn Calderwood

Auschwitz darstellen. Ästhetische Positionen zwischen Adorno, Spielberg und Walser. Stefan Krankenhagen. Reviewed by Jan-Holger Kirsch

A Topography of Memory. Representations of the Holocaust at Dachau and Buchenwald in Comparison with Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and Washington, DC. Isabelle Engelhardt. Reviewed by Tanja Schult

Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers. Christopher R. Browning. Reviewed by Joachim Lerchenmueller

Bürokratie und Terror. Das Judenreferat der Gestapo Düsseldorf 1935-1945. Holger Berschel. Reviewed by Ingrid Schupetta

Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. Omer Bartov. Reviewed by Angelo Georgakis.

Papst Pius XII. und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Aus den Akten des Vatikans. Pierre Blet. Reviewed by Rainer Decker

Review of Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. Omer Bartov. Reviewed by Gordon Fisher

Nazi Terror. The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans. Eric A Johnson. Reviewed by Ingrid Schupetta In German

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering. Norman Finkelstein.  Reviewed by Constantin Goschler

Death Comes in Yellow. Skarzysko-Kamienna Slave Labor Camp. Reviewed by Mark Spoerer

The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Henry Friedlander. Reviewed by Joerg Bottger

Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy. Hyman A. Enzer and Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer, eds.  Reviewed  E. Thomas Ewing 

Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. Evan Burr Bukey.  Reviewed by Milton Goldin 

Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. John Cornwell.  Reviewed  by Kevin Madigan 

Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination. Lillian Kremer. Reviewed by Steve McCullough 

Auschwitz: Nie davon gehoert? Erinnern und Vergessen in Deutschland. Alphons Silbermann, Manfred Stoffers. Reviewed by Jan-Holger Kirsch

The Juderia: A Holocaust Survivor’s Tribute to the Jewish Community of Rhodes. Laura Varon.  Reviewed  by Rachel Amado Bortnick 

Pack of Thieves: How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History. Richard Z. Chesnoff. Reviewed by Milton Goldin

Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust: A Study in the Ethics of Character. David H. Jones. Reviewed by Erich H. Loewy 

On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History. Henry Greenspan. Reviewed by Linda M. Woolf 

Politics, Society, and Christianity in Vichy France. W D Hall. Reviewed by Donna F. Ryan

Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France. Richard H. Weisberg Reviewed by D C Kramer

Die Hoelle gestreift. F von Rainer Froebe and Marie-Claude Stehr. Reviewed by Ingrid Schupetta

Hitler's Willing Executioners. D J Goldhagen.  Reviewed by R M Wagner

Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42.  Peter Witte, et al. Reviewed by Isabel Heinemann 

Resisting the Holocaust. Ruby Rohrlich, ed.  Reviewed for H-Holocaust by Stan Nadel 

Reading the Holocaust. Inga Clendinnen. Reviewed for H-Holocaust by Milton Goldin

Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust. Michael C. Steinlauf.  Reviewed for H-Judaic by Magdalena Teter 

Between Two Streams: A Diary from Bergen-Belsen.  Abel J. Herzberg.Reviewed for H-Judaic by Eric Sterling 

The Americanization of the Holocaust. Hilene Flanzbaum, ed.  Reviewed for H-Holocaust by Richard Libowitz

The Holocaust: A German Historian Examines the Genocide, Wolfgang Benz. Reviewed by John P. Fox

Women in the Holocaust, Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman, eds. Reviewed by Patricia Mazon

Jews For Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945. Yehuda Bauer. Reviewed by Richard S. Levy

Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs, Richard J. Golsan, ed. Reviewed by Steven Zdatny

The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution, Henry Friedlander.  Reviewed by Alan E. Steinweis

Death and Deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany, c.1900-1945, Michael Burleigh. Reviewed by Alan E. Steinweis

Persecution, Extermination, Literature, Sem Dresden. Reviewed by Bill Schaffer

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Reviewed by Carl Schulkin

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian, Raul Hilberg.  Reviewed by David A. Meier

Endlösung: Völkerverschiebung und der Mord an den europäischen Juden, Götz Aly.  Reviewed by Doris L. Bergen

Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia, Daniel Carpi.   Reviewed by Guillaume de Syon

Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List, Yosefa Loshitzky, ed. Reviewed by J. David Slocum

Formen des Erinnerns. Gedenkstätten des Holocaust, James E. Young.  Reviewed by Jan-Holger Kirsch

Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises, Steven E. Aschheim.  Reviewed by Keith H. Pickus

The Holocaust, the French and the Jews, Susan Zuccotti.  Reviewed by Martin E. Vann

Nationale Frage und Vertreibung in der Tschechoslowakei und Ungarn 1938-1948: Aktuelle Forschungen, Richard G. Plaschka, Horst Haselsteiner, Arnold Suppan and Anna M. Drabek, eds. Reviewed by Philipp Ther

Politik mit der Erinnerung: Gedaechtnisorte im Streit um die Nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit, Peter Reichel. Reviewed by Stefan Gunther

The Destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews During the Antonescu Era, Randolph L. Braham, ed. Reviewed by Nicolae Harsanyi

The Holocaust in Hungary Fifty Years Later, Randolph L. Braham and Attila Pok, eds.   Reviewed by N.F. Dreisziger

Hungary at War: Civilians and Soldiers in World War II, Cecil D. Eby. Reviewed by N.F. Dreisziger

Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity, Günter Bischof and Anton Pelinka, eds. Reviewed by Josef Langer

Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris. Ian Kershaw. Reviewed by Milton Goldin. 

Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: A World War II Dilemma. P R Sakamoto. Reviewed by Joshua A. Fogel. 

Die verlassenen Kinder der Kirche. Der Umgang mit Christen juedischer Herkunft im "Dritten Reich" Ursula Buettner und Martin Greschat. Reviewed by Dr. Guido Mueller