Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48 Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation
Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the CommunistCoup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysisof the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and afterthe war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Cz...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| PhysicalDescription: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
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New York
Palgrave MacMillan
2013
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| ISBN: | 9781137317476 (electronic bk) 1137317477 (electronic bk) |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Map: The partition of wartime Czechoslovakia; Introduction; Prelude; Governments-in-exile and the Jews; 1 The Exiles and the Situation in Nazi Europe; In thrall to the Jews; Avoiding the unavoidable?; Beneficial cleansing; 2 The Meaning of Loyalty: The Exiles and the Jews, 1939-41; 'A minority is a minority'; What did it mean to be 'loyal'?; The 'power' of the Jews; 3 The Holocaust; We will find more Jews alive after this war than we think; Rescue and relief for the deported Jews; The Czechoslovak diplomacy and the Jews
- Broadcasting and instrumentalising the Holocaust4 The Jewish Minority and Post-War Czechoslovakia; Warning signals; A conditional support for Zionism; Czechoslovak Communists and the Jews; 5 Defending the Democratic 'Myth'; In liberated Czechoslovakia; '7,000 suicides' in Prague; A surprising ally; Goodwill of the Czechoslovak government; Indifference or non-interventionism?; Conclusion: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
