Beate Meyer

A Fatal Balancing Act

The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

First comprehensive study on the German-Jewish leadership during the Holocaust Gives a new perspective on the persecution of Jews in Germany Presents different inner-Jewish perspectives on the years 1939-1945

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9781785332142
• ISBN-10: 1785332147
• Artikelnr.: 44885578

Autorenporträt

Beate Meyer is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg, Germany and is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hamburg. She has been a Fellow at the International Institute of Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem/Jerusalem (2000/2001) and the USHMM (2010). Recent publications include Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation (co-edited, University of Chicago Press 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations in the Text and Notes
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: From "Forced Emigration" to Assisting with the Deportations
Chapter 1. Created in Chaos
* Pogrom as Prelude: November 1938
* Looking Back at the History of the Reich Representation of German
Jews, 1932-1938
* Between Reich Representation and Reich Association: Adaptation Under
Duress
Chapter 2. "Forced Emigration"
* Orderly Emigration or Flight at Any Cost? Legal or Illegal? 
Emigration to Palestine (Aliyah)
* To Emigrate or Stay On? Functionaries Between Duty, Responsibility
and Self-Overestimation
* "Losing sight of the big picture for the sake of something smaller"
The Conflict over Rescuing the Polish Jews 1939/40
Chapter 3. The "Territorial Solution": "Reservations for Jews" and Early
Deportations
* "Jewish Reservation Lublin"
* The Madagascar Plan
* The Deportation of the Jews from Baden and Saarpfalz
Chapter 4. Welfare
* Interim Summary
Part II: Walking on a Thin Line  - The Participation of the
Reichsvereinigung and the Berlin Jewish Community in the Time of the
Deportations
Chapter 1. Decision on a Basic Principle: Avoid Hardship, Participate in
"Partial Operations"
* Clinging to a Lost Life World
* Straying from the path or "legal work in the underground"32(Baeck)?
Preparatory Tasks Executed by the RV
* Changes in Tasks and Structures (1941-1943)
* New Task: Compilation of Personal Data and Card File Systems
* A New Imposed  Challenge: Setting Up and Maintaining Assembly Camps
for Deportations
* Another New Task: "Collecting Deportees"
* Other Supplementary Assistance - Postal Services
* Social Work as Exemplified in Care for Children
* The Limited Possibilities of the Reichsvereinigung  to Influence the
Deportations
* The Reichsvereinigung as Employer and a Protective Space for
Functionaries and Staff
Chapter 2. "Every Day More Terrifying News"  - The Year 1942
* Repercussions of the Arson Attack on the Nazi Propaganda Exhibition
"The Soviet Paradise"
* Socially Acceptable Deportations? Destination Theresienstadt
* The Daily Round of Work under Threat of Arrest
* The 'Community Operation' in October 1942
* The "Time of Brunner" 
Chapter 3. The Stepwise Liquidation of the Reichsvereinigung (1943)
* Deportation of the Leading Functionaries
* The "great inferno." The Factory Action
* (Temporary) Closure of the Business Offices
 
Chapter 4.  Theresienstadt  as a New Field of Activity of the German-Jewish
Functionaries
* A Veritable Army of Officials
* The Bitter End of Activity by Functionaries in Theresienstadt
* Knowledge among the German-Jewish Functionaries about the Murder of
the Jews
* Interim Summary
Part III: The "Psychological Environment" (Hilberg) in the Countryside.
Latitude for Action by Jewish Functionaries in the District Branches
Chapter 1. The District Branches
* Structure and Motivation of the Jewish Functionaries
* The Tasks
* Mitigating the Plight, Dissemination of Prohibitions and Social
Disciplining
* "Judenhäuser" and Barracks Settlements
* Preparatory Arrangements for the Deportations
Chapter 2. A Troubled Relationship: The District Branches and the RV
Central Office
 
Chapter 3. The District Branches and the Deportations
* Brief Digression: Preparations for Deportation by the Gestapo
Chapter 4. A Comparative Look at District Branches
* Frankfurt am Main.  The System of Organized Arbitrary Action
* Munich. Hatred of Jews in the Gau of Nazi Tradition
* Nuremberg. Uninhibited Hordes
* Mainz. "Reliable" Relations?
* Hamburg.  "Easier Going" than Elsewhere?
* Final Thoughts
 Chapter 5. Strategies for Dealing with the Authorities. 
 Chapter 6. The Fate of the District Branch Directors
* Liquidation of the District Branches
* Interim Summary
 Part IV: The Residual Reichsvereinigung
Chapter 1. The Last Compulsory Members: Jews in Mixed Marriages
Chapter 2. Structure and Tasks of the Residual Reichsvereinigung
* Director Dr. Dr. Walter Lustig
* Origin and Motivation of the Intermediaries
* Work under the Conditions of the Bombing Raids
* Intermediaries in Conflict with the Central Office
* Lethal Office
 Chapter 3. Vertrauensmänner, Gestapo and Jews in the Final Phase of the
War
 Chapter 4. The War is Over - Liberation and/or a Horrible End?
* Interim Summary
 
Part V:  A Look at Later Developments: The "Strategy of Cooperation" as an
Incriminating Legacy for a New Start
Chapter 1. Proceedings Before a Court of Honor and Employment Bans in
Berlin
Chapter 2. Under Suspicion: Former Jewish Functionaries in the Western
Occupation Zones and the Fledgling Federal Republic
Chapter 3. "Gestapo Collaborators": Former Jewish Functionaries in the
Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR
Chapter 4. Aftermath
* The Conflict Surrounding Recha Freier's  Let The Children Come
* Surviving Functionaries in Jewish Organizations
* Summary
Bibliography
Archival materials cited
Literature and printed sources
Index