Gray Zones : : Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath / / ed. by Jonathan Petropoulos, John Roth.

• MitwirkendeR: Barnett, Victoria J.,; Baron, Lawrence,; Bazyler, Michael J.,; Berenbaum, Michael,; Browning, Christopher R.,; Dean, Martin,; Dreyfus, Jean-Marc,; Fleischner, Eva,; Giles, Geoffrey J.,; Greif, Gideon,; Hayes, Peter,; Herzog, Dagmar,; Hilberg, Raul,; Horowitz, Sara R.,; Lewis, Jeffrey,; Lower, Wendy,; Melson, Robert,; Petropoulos, Jonathan,; Rapaport, Lynn,; Rigg, Bryan Mark,; Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.,; Roth, John K.,; Rubenstein, Richard L.,; Smelser, Ronald,; Weinberg, Gerhard L,
• HerausgeberIn: Petropoulos, Jonathan,; Roth, John,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; PROLOGUE The Gray Zones of the Holocaust --; Part One: Ambiguity and Compromise in Writing and Depicting Holocaust History --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 The Ambiguities of Evil and Justice: Degussa, Robert Pross, and the Jewish Slave Laborers at Gleiwitz --; Chapter 2 “Alleviation” and “Compliance”: The Survival Strategies of the Jewish Leadership in the Wierzbnik Ghetto and the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps --; Chapter 3 Between Sanity and Insanity: Spheres of Everyday Life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando --; Chapter 4 Sonderkommando: Testimony from Evidence --; Chapter 5 A Commentary on “Gray Zones” in Raul Hilberg’s Work --; Chapter 6 Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography --; Part Two: Identity, Gender, and Sexuality During and After the Third Reich --; Chapter 7 Choiceless Choices: Surviving on False Papers on the “Aryan” Side --; Chapter 8 “Who Am I?” The Struggle for Religious Identity of Jewish Children Hidden by Christians During the Shoah --; Chapter 9 Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers --; Chapter 10 A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men: Confusion in the Discrimination Against Homosexuals in the Wehrmacht --; Chapter 11 Pleasure and Evil: Christianity and the Sexualization of Holocaust Memory --; Chapter 12 The Gender of Good and Evil: Women and Holocaust Memory --; Part Three: Gray Spaces: Geographical and Imaginative Landscapes --; Chapter 13 Hitler’s “Garden of Eden” in Ukraine: Nazi Colonialism, Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust, 1941–1944 --; Chapter 14 Life and Death in the “Gray Zone” of Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe: The Unknown, the Ambiguous, and the Disappeared --; Chapter 15 “Almost-Camps” in Paris: The Difficult Description of Three Annexes of Drancy—Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944 --; Chapter 16 Alternate Holocausts and the Mistrust of Memory --; Chapter 17 Laughter and Heartache: The Functions of Humor in Holocaust Tragedy --; Chapter 18 The Holocaust in Popular Culture: Master-Narrative and Counter-Narratives in the Gray Zone --; Chapter 19 The Grey Zone: The Cinema of Choiceless Choices --; Part Four: Justice, Religion, and Ethics During and After the Holocaust --; Chapter 20 Gray into Black: The Case of Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski --; Chapter 21 Catalyzing Fascism: Academic Science in National Socialist Germany and Afterward --; Chapter 22 Postwar Justice and the Treatment of Nazi Assets --; Chapter 23 The Gray Zones of Holocaust Restitution: American Justice and Holocaust Morality --; Chapter 24 The Creation of Ethical “Gray Zones” in the German Protestant Church: Reflections on the Historical Quest for Ethical Clarity --; Chapter 25 Gray-Zoned Ethics: Morality’s Double Binds During and After the Holocaust --; Epilogue: An Intense Wish to Understand --; Select Bibliography --; About the Editors and Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782382010
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782382010
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jonathan Petropoulos, John Roth.

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain--lest resolution deceive us--will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.