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The Red Cross and the Holocaust
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

The Red Cross and the Holocaust

This book presents a startling assessment of the role of the Red Cross in the Holocaust.

Humanitarians at War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Humanitarians at War

How the International Committee of the Red Cross emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, escaping its ambiguous wartime record to re-affirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs and help rewrite the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions

Dunant's Dream
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 780

Dunant's Dream

Chronicles the history of the Red Cross, from its nineteenth-century humanitarian origins to the complex moral dilemmas it has faced in the twentieth-century

The Challenge of Neutrality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

The Challenge of Neutrality

Prominent historian and former President of the Swiss Confederation Georges-Andr Chevallaz begins his study of Swiss neutrality during World War II with two essential questions: Why, in the face of German imperialism ”with its authoritarian, totalitarian, and racist ideology ”did Switzerland declare neutrality? Why did it not join the "camp of democracies," or the other European nations who resolved to hold firm against the Germans? Chevallaz's provocative and insightful book, presented here for the first time in English, attempts to answer these questions. Chevallaz further offers an even-handed reevaluation of the role of the principal actors in Swiss politics of the time, notably Marcel Pilet-Golaz, head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and General Henri Guisan.

Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939-1945
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939-1945

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism to the Second World War, by focusing on its tumultuous relationship with one of the conflict's key belligerents and masters of the blockade of the Third Reich, Great Britain.

Purifying the Nation
  • Language: en

Purifying the Nation

Through a rigorous, archive-based analysis of the country’s interwar political and intellectual climate and policies and practices during its alliance with the Nazis, Solonari sheds valuable new light on the genocidal activities of one of Hitler’s European satellites.

The Myth of Rescue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

The Myth of Rescue

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-01-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

It has long been argued that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his new introduction to the paperback edition, Willliam Rubinstein responds to the controversy caused by his challenging views, and considers further the question of bombing Auschwitz, which remains perhaps the most widely discussed alleged lost opportunity for saving Jews available to the Allies.

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It consists of a series of short essays, arranged alphabetically, whose unifying thread is an attack on religious and political intolerance. Highly entertaining, its concern with intolerance and its consequences is still relevant today.

Studies in Contemporary Jewry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Studies in Contemporary Jewry

Bringing together contributions from established scholars from multiple disciplines and countries, Volume XIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry offers a comparative view of alliances between Jewish communities and the state. Together, the volume's contents show the price Jews paid for allying with unpopular regimes. The essays cover the American South, South Africa, Canada, Algeria, Morocco, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia.

The Red Cross Movement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

The Red Cross Movement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book offers new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Red Cross Movement by leading historians in the field. It re-imagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as an institutional network and a key actor in the humanitarian space through two centuries of war and peace.