Nick Terry
Illuminator
This thread was started back in February of this year, after previous threads had rumbled on for quite a bit of the previous year. As we near 7,000 posts over the length of the thread so far, it's maybe time to take stock and wonder how badly the deniers have failed.
One way would be to take note of various works which have dealt with the ostensible subject of this thread, that have been published since the start of 2011. It would be hard to keep track of literally everything that has appeared, so let's settle with the books that have actually come into my possession.
The deniers should congratulate themselves on their Canute-like success. Despite thousands of posts from the deniers, not one book less has been published in the past year, not one college course less has been taught, not a single historian has decided to give up and do something else, in short: they are making absolutely no headway whatsoever.
Some of the deniers, meanwhile, are rather given to pronouncing about what historians of the Holocaust supposedly say, but seem woefully out of touch with what those historians are actually writing about and what they might be saying.
I make no apologies for the inclusion of titles in German, Polish and Russian. The very fact that Russian historians can collaborate on a 1000+ page encyclopedia of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union is a rather telling sign (I'm told it will also be translated into English in the near future). Jan Gross's essay Golden Harvest will appear next spring in English. The Germans continue to produce a mini-avalance of primary source editions, monographs and dissertations on the subject, which are often required reading for serious students in the field.
In the next few months, a slew of new titles are due out, so the list can only grow. It will be fun to update it and observe how the deniers have failed to make any progess in the meantime.
One way would be to take note of various works which have dealt with the ostensible subject of this thread, that have been published since the start of 2011. It would be hard to keep track of literally everything that has appeared, so let's settle with the books that have actually come into my possession.
- Altman, I.A. (ed), Kholokost na territorii SSSR. Entsiklopediia. Moscow: Rosspen, 2011
- Baum, Herwig, Varianten des Terrors. Ein Vergleich zwischen der deutschen und rumänischen Besatzungsverwaltung in der Sowjetunion 1941-1944. Berlin: Metropol, 2011
- Benz, Angelika, Der Henkersknecht: Der Prozess gegen John (Iwan) Demjanjuk in München, Berlin: Metropol, 2011
- Blatman, Daniel, The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011
- Buser, Verena, Ueberleben von Kindern und Jugendlichen in den Konzentrationslagern Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen. Berlin: Metropol, 2011
- Cesarani, David and Eric J. Sundquist (eds), After the Holocaust. Challenging the Myth of Silence. London: Routledge, 2011
- Cole, Tim, Traces of the Holocaust. Journeying in and out of the Ghettos. London: Continuum, 2011
- Cramer, John, Belsen-Trial 1945. Der Lüneberger Prozess gegen Wachpersonal der Konzentrationslager Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011
- Curilla, Wolfgang, Der Judenmord in Polen und die Ordnungspolizei 1939-1945. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011
- Dieckmann, Christoph, Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011
- Friedman, Jonathan C. (ed), The Routledge History of the Holocaust. London: Routledge, 2011
- Friedrich, Klaus-Peter (ed), Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistischen Deutschland 1933-1945. Bd 4: Polen September 1939-Juli 1941. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2011
- Fritz, Stephen G., Ostkrieg: Hitler’s War of Extermination in the East. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011
- Gross, Jan Tomasz, Zlote zniwa. Rzecz o tym, co sie dzialo na obrzezach zaglady Zydow. Krakow: Znak, 2011
- Hoppe, Bert and Hildrun Glass (eds), Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistischen Deutschland 1933-1945. Bd 7: Sowjetunion mit annektierten Gebiete I. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2011
- Kakel, Carroll P., The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- Langbehn, Volker and Mohammad Salama (eds), German Colonialism: Race, The Holocaust, and Postwar Germany. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011
- Mallmann, Klaus-Michel, Andrej Angrick, Jürgen Matthäus, Martin Cüppers (eds), Die ‘Ereignismeldungen UdSSR’ 1941. Dokumente der Einsatzgruppen in der Sowjetunion. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2011
- Michman, Dan, The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
- Morsch, Günter, Bertrand Perz, Astrid Ley (eds), Neue Studien zu nationalsozialistischen Massentötungen durch Giftgas, Berlin: Metropol, 2011
- Neitzel, Sönke and Harald Welzer, Soldaten: Protokolle vom Kämpfen, Töten und Sterben. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2011
- Reichelt, Katrin, Lettland unter deutscher Besatzung 1941-1944. Der lettische Anteil am Holocaust. Berlin: Metropol, 2011
- Rein, Leonid, The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in Byelorussia During World War II. Oxford: Berghahn, 2011
- Rosenfeld, Alvin H., The End of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011
- Verbeeck, Georgi and Beate Kosmala (eds), Facing the Catastrophe: Jews and Non-Jews in Europe During World War II. Oxford: Berg, 2011
- Wefing, Heinrich, Der Fall Demjanjuk: der letzte grosse NS-Prozess. Das Leben, der Prozess, das Urteil. Berlin: Beck, 2011
- Wette, Wolfram, Karl Jäger: Mörder der litauischen Juden. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2011
The deniers should congratulate themselves on their Canute-like success. Despite thousands of posts from the deniers, not one book less has been published in the past year, not one college course less has been taught, not a single historian has decided to give up and do something else, in short: they are making absolutely no headway whatsoever.
Some of the deniers, meanwhile, are rather given to pronouncing about what historians of the Holocaust supposedly say, but seem woefully out of touch with what those historians are actually writing about and what they might be saying.
I make no apologies for the inclusion of titles in German, Polish and Russian. The very fact that Russian historians can collaborate on a 1000+ page encyclopedia of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union is a rather telling sign (I'm told it will also be translated into English in the near future). Jan Gross's essay Golden Harvest will appear next spring in English. The Germans continue to produce a mini-avalance of primary source editions, monographs and dissertations on the subject, which are often required reading for serious students in the field.
In the next few months, a slew of new titles are due out, so the list can only grow. It will be fun to update it and observe how the deniers have failed to make any progess in the meantime.
