The Holocaust and World War II: In History and in Memory

The Holocaust and World War II: In History and In Memory is a thematic volume of nineteen articles based on papers presented at the 9th Middle Tennessee State University International Holocaust Studies Conference in October, 2009. It focuses on the connection between World War II and the Holocaust as it was lived as well as how it is remembered, commemorated and taught. It is interdisciplinary in terms of subject and content, and it explores a variety of methodological approaches the topic, including historical analysis, pedagogy, oral testimony, literary criticism and museology. The volume features three articles written by the conference's featured speakers. Two of them were authored by the Keynote speaker, internationally acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg. Arguably the world's foremost authority on WW II, Weinberg is the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II and several other prize-winning books. He contributes World War II: A Brief History and an article titled Roosevelt, Truman and the Holocaust that evaluates the difficult decisions concerning the Holocaust made by two American presidents. The second featured speaker, Raffael Scheck, author of Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940, contributes an article titled Racial Hatred: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 to this volume. Scheck's essay places the experiences of the black French African prisoners of war into the broader context of the treatment of black people by the Nazis. The remaining sixteen articles, contributed by prominent scholars from North America and Europe, represent a broad spectrum of disciplines, methodological approaches, and points of view concerning the Holocaust and the Second World War. We believe this anthology will be both and important acquisition for libraries and a useful tool for scholars, teachers, researchers and general readers interested in the World War II era as well as in the Holocaust.