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Threat (New York: Basic Books, 1990); Eric Markusen and David Kopf, The
Holocaust and Strategic Bombing: Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995); John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race
and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon, 1986); Joanna Bourke, An
Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare
(London: Granta, 1999).
31. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, rev. edn
(New York: Penguin, 1976).
32. Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners; Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary
Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (New York:
HarperCollins, 1992).
33. See, for example, Richard Bessel (ed.), Life in the Third Reich (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1987); Martin Broszat and Elke Fröhlich, Alltag und Widerstand:
Bayern im Nationalsozialismus (Munich: Piper, 1987); Mary Nolan, “The
Historikerstreit and Social History,” in Peter Baldwin (ed.), Reworking the Past:
Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Historians’ Debate (Boston, MA: Beacon Press,
199), pp. 224–48.
34. Gordon J. Horwitz, In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of
Mauthausen (New York: The Free Press, 1990).
35. For the two most comprehensive histories of the Nazi concentration camp system,
from two very different perspectives, see Yisrael Gutman and Rachel Manbar (eds),
The Nazi Concentration Camps: Structure and Aims. The Image of the Prisoner. The
Jews in the Camps (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1984 [in Hebrew]); Ulrich Herbert, Karin
Orth and Christoph Dieckmann (eds), Die nationalsozialistischen
Konzentrationslager: Entwicklung und Struktur, 2 vols (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag,
1998).
36. See now Carole Rittner and John K. Roth (eds), Different Voices: Women and the
Holocaust (New York: Paragon House, 1993); Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman
(eds), Women in the Holocaust (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998).
37. One French (non-Jewish) survivor, sent to Auschwitz as a political prisoner, wrote
some of her memoirs soon after the liberation but published them only decades
later. Her extraordinary writings are becoming known in the English-speaking world
only in the last few years. See Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After, trans. Rosette
C. Lamont (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995); Delbo, Convoy to
Auschwitz: Women of the French Resistance, trans. Carol Cosman (Boston, MA:
Northeastern University Press, 1997).
38. See, for instance, the remarkable study by Felicja Karay, Rockets and Rhymes:
The Hasag-Leipzig Women Labor Camp (Tel Aviv: Moreshet and Yad Vashem,
1997 [in Hebrew]).
39. This issue is powerfully demonstrated in Marion A. Kaplan, Between Dignity and
Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
See also Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossmann and Marion Kaplan (eds), When
Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (New York:
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