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"Jews and Germans is the only book in English to delve into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship from before the Holocaust through today. Were the Weimar Republic years (1918 - 1933) truly reciprocal for Jews and Germans? Post- Holocaust, how has that complex relationship evolved?"--

Jews and Germans is the only book in English to delve into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship from before the Holocaust through today. Were the Weimar Republic years (1918 - 1933) truly reciprocal for Jews and Germans? Post- Holocaust, how has that complex relationship evolved?"--

The Nazis' attempt to annihilate the Jewish people, the Holocaust, continues to raise a disturbing question. About six million defenseless men, women, and children were murdered for no reason but their ancestry. How could such terrible deeds happen in the heart of Christian Europe and among a nation known for its poets and thinkers, a people that had produced Schiller, Goethe, Bach, and Beethoven? That is the question Guenter Lewy seeks to answer in this book, by drawing on previously untapped material, including officers' diaries, letters written by soldiers, and the record of the trials of hundreds of Nazi perpetrators in German courts

part PART I. Th e Th eory of False Consciousness -- chapter 1 False Consciousness: From Marx to Marcuse -- part PART II. Th e Practice of Eradicating False Consciousness -- chapter 2 Th e Political Use of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union -- chapter 3 Th ought Reform in the People's Republic of China -- chapter 4 Emancipatory Pedagogy in the Federal Republic of Germany -- part PART III. Are Democracy and Capitalism Sustained By False Consciousness? -- chapter 5 Th e Case for the Cultural Hegemony of the Dominant Classes -- chapter 6 Th e American System of Education -- chapter 7 Th e Mass Media in America -- part PART IV. Conclusions -- chapter 8 False Consciousness Evaluated.

Intro -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Can There Be Genocide without the Intent to Commit Genocide? -- 3: Gypsies and Jews under the Nazis -- 4: Himmler and the "Racially Pure Gypsies" -- 5: Did the United States Commit Genocide against the Indians? -- 6: The First Genocide of the Twentieth Century? -- 7: The Case for the Armenian Genocide Reexamined -- 8: Pacifism and the Just Revolution -- 9: The Case for Humanitarian Intervention -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

"The essays in this book, written over a span of some twenty years but updated for this publication, discuss episodes of mass murder that are often considered instances of genocide: the large-scale killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during World War I, the near-extinction of North America's Indian population, the vicious persecution of the 'Roma' or Gypsies under the Nazi regime. But in line with Article II of the Genocide Convention of 1948, Lewy stresses the crucial importance of looking closely at the intent of the perpetrators. In contrast to the Holocaust, the killers in the atrocities mentioned above did not seek to destroy an entire people, and so, these three large-scale killings do not deserve the label of genocide. Lewy argues that affirming the distinctiveness of the Holocaust does not deny, downgrade, or trivialize the suffering of other people. The crimes against the Ottoman Armenians, the American Indians, and the Gypsies -- even if they did not reach the threshold of genocide -- involved horrendous suffering and a massive loss of life. The genocides of Cambodia and Rwanda that took place in the second half of the twentieth century remind us that man's inhumanity to man can take many forms and is not the special prerogative of any particular group. The last essay of the collection deals with the complications of humanitarian intervention to prevent genocide. As the recent support of the Libyan rebels by NATO demonstrates, the issues raised here remain topical and controversial."--Publisher's description

Advances in medical treatment now enable physicians to prolong life to a previously unknown extent. Based on the documentary record and interviews with officials, this book gives the reader a reliable picture of the way assisted death functions and to draw relevant lessons

From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians, workers, and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party has descended into irrelevance and isolation, failing even to run a presidential candidate in 1988. Indeed, as Guenter Lewy writes in this critical account of American Communism, despite decades of feverish activity and ferocious discipline, it was a cause doomed to fail from the very beginning. In The Cause that Failed, Lewy offers an incisive narrative of the American Communist Party from the days of John Reed to the advent of gla