As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this volume provide original scholarship to steer debates and expand the historiography surrounding Nazi racial and occupation policies, Polish and Jewish responses to them, persecution, police terror, resistance, and complicity.
Table of Content
Preface
Maps
Introduction
Jonathan Huener and Andrea Löw
Chapter 1. ‘So That the Future Chronicler Can Make Use Not Only of Official Documents’: How Jews in the Ghettos Documented and Researched the Holocaust in Occupied Poland
Andrea Löw
Chapter 2. Networks of Dependence and Love: Jewish-Gentile Relationships in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Natalia Aleksiun
Chapter 3. Stories of Power: Sexual Contacts Between Occupiers and Locals in German-Occupied Poland
Maren Röger
Chapter 4. Kirchenpolitik as Volkstumspolitik: The Catholic Church in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Jonathan Huener
Chapter 5. Ordinary Organization, Extraordinary State Violence: The Polish ‘Blue’ Police and the Holocaust in Eastern-District Kraków
Tomasz Frydel
Chapter 6. Moral Victories?: Warsaw’s Two Uprisings in the Second World War
Winson Chu
Chapter 7. Polish Debates on the Holocaust from the 1940s to the Present
Dariusz Stola
Conclusion: Contemporary Research on the Holocaust and German Occupation of Poland: Between New Empiricism and Geschichtspolitik
Ingo Loose
Index
About the author
Andrea Löw is Deputy Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, and teaches at the University of Mannheim. In 2022 she was the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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