Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews
Cambridge University Press, 10/26/2006
EAN 9780521689793, ISBN10: 0521689791
Paperback, 408 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
This book offers an analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, its origins, and its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. With the Holocaust developing like a sort of a doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found themselves between the hammer and various anvils, each of which worked according to the logic created by the Nazis that dictated the behavior of other parties and the relations between them before and during the Holocaust. The interplay between the various parties contributed to the victims' doom first by preventing help and later preventing rescue. These help and rescue efforts proved mainly self defeating, and various legacies about them emerged during the Holocaust and are heatedly debated even today. Their real nature is uncovered here on the basis of newly opened archives worldwide.
Part I. The Making of the Multiple Trap
1. The phases 1933–9
the initial and the double trap
2. Western responses
3. A flashback on the Palestine question
4. 1939 till 'Barbarossa' - the foundation of the multiple trap
5. The 'Final Solution' decision and its initial implementation
6. The 'Final Solution' in some detail and more on its justification
7. The Zionists' dilemmas
8. Dimensions of Allied response to Hitler's 'Jewish Politics' and the deepening of the trap
9. The war priorities of the Western Allies and rules of economic warfare related to the Holocaust 1941–4
Part II. The Rescue Debate, the Macro Picture, and the Intelligence Services
10. Missed opportunities
11. The Intelligence Services and rescue options
12. The Jewish 'Refugee Traffic'
the road to Biltmore and its ramifications
13. American wartime realities 1942–3
14. Bermuda, Breckenridge Long, G-2, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine again
15. Roosevelt, Stimson, and the Palestine question
British inputs
16. Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence views, Consul-General Pinkerton and Rabbi Nelson Glueck
17. Various methods of rescue
Part III. The Self-Defeating Mechanism of the Rescue Efforts
18. Istanbul, Geneva and Jerusalem
19. How the Holocaust in Slovakia was suspended
the 'Europa Plan'
20. The significance of the British Decrypts
21. The 'Small Season'
Begin's rebellion
22. The origins of the Budapest 'Rescue Committee'
23. The WRB and the extension of the trap
the 'Dogwood' chain
24. The double Hungarian debacle
Part IV. The Brand-Grosz Missions within the Larger Picture of the War and their Ramifications
25. The Zionist initiatives
26. Rescue, allied intelligence and the SS
27. Hungarian rescue deals in allied eyes
28. How the missions were born
29. The demise of a rescue mission
30. Open and secret war schemes and realities
31. The WRB's own reports
OWI's reservations
Part V. The End of the Final Solution
Back to Hostage Taking Tactics
32. The train
33. The bombing controversy
Albert Speer and Solly Zuckerman
34. The 'Great Season'
35. Becher, Mayer and the death marches
36. The 'End' of the 'Final Solution' - Budapest
Epilogue
Self-traps
the OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg
Malkiel Gruenwald as CID informant.