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Resisting Persecution -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1-To Not "Live as a Pariah": Jewish Petitions as Individual and Collective Protest in the Greater German Reich -- Chapter 2-"Did We Not Shed Our Blood for France?": Identity and Resistance in Entreaties for the Jewish Internees of Occupied France, 1940-44 -- Chapter 3-Honorary Czechs and Germans: Petitions for Aryan Status in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia -- Chapter 4-Legal Resistance through Petitions during the Holocaust: The Strategies of Romanian Jewish Leader Wilhelm Filderman, 1940-44 -- Chapter 5-Attempts to Take Action in a Coerced Community: Petitions to the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto during World War II -- Chapter 6-Petitioning Matters: Jews and Non-Jews Negotiating Ghettoization in Budapest, 1944 -- Chapter 7-Global Jewish Petitioning and the Reconsideration of Spatial Analysis in Holocaust Historiography: The Case of Rescue in the Philippines -- Chapter 8-Petitioning for "Equal Treatment": The Struggles of Intermarried Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany -- Conclusion -- Appendix-European-Jewish Petitions during the Holocaust -- Index.

Front Matter --Copyright page --Illustrations --Foreword /Gerhard L. Weinberg --Introduction /Jürgen Matthäus and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan --Ordinary Men, Ordinary Women: Perpetrator Research Reconsidered --Ordinary Men and the Women in Their Shadows: Gender Issues in the Holocaust Scholarship of Christopher R. Browning /Doris L. Bergen --"Ordinary Drinkers" and Ordinary "Males"? Alcohol, Masculinity, and Atrocity in the Holocaust /Edward B. Westermann --"Ordinary Christians" in Nazi Germany /Robert P. Ericksen --The Perpetrators of the November 1938 Pogrom through German-Jewish Eyes /Alan E. Steinweis --Contexts of Agency and the Holocaust --Exploitation and Extermination: Jewish Slave Labour on the Baltic Coast, 1941-19431 /T. Fielder Valone --"Palästina-Austausch": Jewish Emigration from Europe to Palestine during the Final Solution /Francis R. Nicosia --More than Helpers: Women's Roles in "Communities of Rescue" in the Bohemian Lands, 1938-1939 /Laura E. Brade --Lutétia: A Luxury Hotel in Paris Meets the Holocaust /Michael R. Marrus --Interpreting Ideology and Social Practice --Nazi Plans for Addressing the Jewish Problem: From "Fringe Irritant" (1929) to the "Machtergreifung" (1933) /Karl A. Schleunes --The Nazi Glorification of Death and Denigration of Suffering /Michael Meng --What Remains of "the Banality of Evil"? /Peter Hayes --The Historian and the Public --The Universalisation of the Holocaust as a Moral Standard /Thomas Pegelow Kaplan --History of Society and Holocaust Research: Thoughts on a Tenuous Relationship /Konrad H. Jarausch --The Three-Legged Antisemitic Stool of Holocaust Denial: Illogic, Wilful Distortions, and Camouflaged Discourse1 /Deborah E. Lipstadt --Police, History, Responsibility: The Impact of Ordinary Men on the Perpetration Debate at German Memorial Sites and in Current Police Training /Thomas Köhler and Christoph Spieker --Sources and Their Readings --The "Euthanasia" Murders Archive: Confronting the New Findings /Dagmar Herzog --Depicting "Ordinary Men": Browning, Goldhagen, and the Historiographic Use of Perpetrator Photographs /Jürgen Matthäus --Unravelling Janowska: Excavating an Understudied Camp through Spatial Testimonies /Waitman Wade Beorn --Particularist and Universalist Interpretations of the Holocaust: A Complex Relationship /Dan Michman --Ordinary Men and Beyond: Reflections on an Historiographical Journey /Christopher R. Browning --Back Matter --List of Publications by Christopher R. Browning --About the Contributors --Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Eichmann on Trial -- 1 Coming to Terms with the "Banality of Evil": Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behaviour -- 2 From History to Story: When the "Architect" of the Holocaust Became His Own "Witness" -- 3 Revisiting Eichmann and Zionism: Contexts, Strange Encounters, and Their Afterlives -- PART II Eichmann and Jurisprudence -- 4 Prosecuting "Crimes against the Jewish People": The Eichmann Trial and the History of a Legal Concept -- 5 The Eichmann Trial: Towards a Jurisprudence of Victims as Eyewitnesses to Genocide -- 6 What Makes a Prosecution an International Landmark Trial? Reflections on the Tensions between Legal Proceedings, Politics, and Historical Facts -- PART III Eichmann and Geopolitics -- 7 The Eichmann Trial's Impact Reconsidered -- 8 The Eichmann Trial and the Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel: A Positive or Negative Influence? -- 9 The Impact of the Eichmann Trial on Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany -- 10 The Impact of the Eichmann Affair on Arab Holocaust Discourse -- PART IV Representing Eichmann -- 11 Remaking Eichmann: Memories of Mass Murder and the Transatlantic Student Movements of the 1960s -- 12 From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial -- Contributors

Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections on the discipline's theoretical, professional, and methodological dimensions, it explores Jarausch's monumental work as a teacher and a builder of scholarly institutions. In this way, it provides not merely a look back at the last fifty years of German history, but a path forward as new ideas and methods infuse the study of Germany's past