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Review: Adam Rayski, The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006; xvi + 388 pp.; ISBN 0268040214

Review: Adam Rayski, The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance, Notre... Reviews 227 objective in the Middle East: the annihilation of the Jews living under British protection in Arab lands’ (140). The Wannsee Conference was ‘rather a sign- post indicating that genocide had become official policy’ (146). Finally, Norbert Frei provides a scrutiny of German public knowledge of Auschwitz. Although ‘many Germans may never have heard the name of Auschwitz until after the end of the Third Reich, it already bore associations of death and extermination during the war, not only in the immediate vicinity, but without doubt also in the “Old Reich”’ (160). Most interesting, how- ever, is Frei’s account of the meaning of Auschwitz in the postwar world and the expansion toward a European perspective on its legacy, contending that ‘neither the history nor the subsequent story of Auschwitz has been entirely absorbed into the metaphorical significance attached . . . to the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp’ (165). Frei’s article, and Gregor’s book in general, provide various stimuli for expanded research. Yet they also point to many open questions. In spite of the wealth of empirical research taking shape over the last decades, it appears to me that Holocaust research has just begun. Lars Rensmann Department http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Contemporary History SAGE

Review: Adam Rayski, The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006; xvi + 388 pp.; ISBN 0268040214

Rensmann, Lars
Journal of Contemporary History , Volume 45 (1): 3 – Jan 1, 2010
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Reviews 227 objective in the Middle East: the annihilation of the Jews living under British protection in Arab lands’ (140). The Wannsee Conference was ‘rather a sign- post indicating that genocide had become official policy’ (146). Finally, Norbert Frei provides a scrutiny of German public knowledge of Auschwitz. Although ‘many Germans may never have heard the name of Auschwitz until after the end of the Third Reich, it already bore associations of death and extermination during the war, not only in the immediate vicinity, but without doubt also in the “Old Reich”’ (160). Most interesting, how- ever, is Frei’s account of the meaning of Auschwitz in the postwar world and the expansion toward a European perspective on its legacy, contending that ‘neither the history nor the subsequent story of Auschwitz has been entirely absorbed into the metaphorical significance attached . . . to the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp’ (165). Frei’s article, and Gregor’s book in general, provide various stimuli for expanded research. Yet they also point to many open questions. In spite of the wealth of empirical research taking shape over the last decades, it appears to me that Holocaust research has just begun. Lars Rensmann Department

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