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60 pages illustrations, 25 cm

Master thesis Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 96 bladen. : illustraties. ; 30 cm.

vi, 98 p. ; 23 cm.

Met literatuuropgave. pages 5-29 : illustrations ;

Includes bibliographical references and index. 323 p. ; 22 cm

Recommendations -- Background -- Mounting political tensions and arrests in February and March -- Escalating violence and repression after March 11 -- The international response -- Acknowledgements. "May 2007." 37 pages ; 28 cm.

399 p.

Resistance in German-occupied Europe is generally understood as insurrectional violence. However, as soon as the war broke out, thousands of people engaged in civil disobedience -- manifested through strikes, demonstrations, and the activities of medical organizations, courts of law, and churches. Jacques Sémelin gathers evidence for the story of a movement that took place in France, Belgium, the ...

Describes Jewish life in 19 Dutch provincial towns and cities in the 1930s, during the war period, and after the liberation, based on memoirs by former Jewish inhabitants. Sketches the Nazi anti-Jewish measures, the active role played by members of the Dutch Nazi party, the cooperation of the local police and civil authorities, the raids on and deportation of Jewish children and adults in Winterswijk, ...

Discusses the background to the Crémieux Decree (1870), which granted Algerian Jews French citizenship; anti-Jewish demonstrations between 1871-1900; the rise of antisemitism in the 1930s; the abrogation of the decree in 1940 by the Vichy regime; the expulsion of Jewish teachers and pupils from Algerian schools; the Vichy government's attempts to turn the Jews into a national minority; the application ...

"On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop ...

"American and British appeasement of Nazism during the early years of the Third Reich went far beyond territorial concessions. In Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H. Norwood examines the numerous of ways that the two nations' official position of tacit acceptance of Jewish persecution enabled the policies that ultimately led to the Final ...