Britain and the Holocaust

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Caroline Sharples, Olaf Jensen

      Pages 1-10

3. Confronting the Holocaust

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. ‘No One Believed What We Had Seen’: British Soldiers Who Witnessed Mass Murder in Auschwitz

      • Duncan Little

      Pages 13-30

   3. Holocaust on Trial: Mass Observation and British Media Responses to the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945–1946

      • Caroline Sharples

      Pages 31-50

   4. Loose Connections? Britain and the ‘Final Solution’

      • Tony Kushner

      Pages 51-67

4. The Holocaust on Screen

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. ‘Marvellous Raisins in a Badly-Cooked Cake’: British Reactions to the Screening of Holocaust

      • Tim Cole

      Pages 71-89

   3. ‘And The Trouble Is Where to Begin to Spring Surprises on You. Perhaps a Place You Might Least Like to Remember/ This Is Your Life and the BBC’s Images of the Holocaust in the Twenty Years Before Holocaust

      • James Jordan

      Pages 90-114

   4. The Holocaust in British Television and Film: A Look over the Fence

      • Olaf Jensen

      Pages 115-125

5. The Holocaust in Exhibitions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Holocaust Art at the Imperial War Museum, 1945–2009

      • Antoine Capet

      Pages 129-141

   3. Holocaust Memory and Contemporary Atrocities: The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition and Crimes Against Humanity Exhibition

      • Rebecca Jinks

      Pages 142-159

   4. The Holocaust and Colonial Genocide at the Imperial War Museum

      • Tom Lawson

      Pages 160-168

6. Commemorating the Holocaust

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. ‘We Should Do Something for the Fiftieth’: Remembering Auschwitz, Belsen and the Holocaust in Britain in 1995

      • Mark Donnelly

      Pages 171-189

   3. Britain’s Holocaust Memorial Day: Inculcating ‘British’ or ‘European’ Holocaust Consciousness?

      • Andy Pearce

      Pages 190-211

   4. From Stockholm to Stockton: The Holocaust and/as Heritage in Britain

      • Dan Stone

      Pages 212-229

7. Back Matter

   Pages 230-244

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How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of 1945-6, to the establishment of a national memorial day by the start of the twenty-first century.

• Auschwitz
• Britain
• Europe
• Genocide
• Holocaust
• Holocaust Memorial
• media

“The historiography of Britain’s relationship with the Holocaust is now an area of significant scholarly interest. Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen’s edited collection provides an up-to-date review of some of the central debates regarding Holocaust remembrance and representation. … the collection provides an important interdisciplinary study of how Britain has understood, represented and memorialized the Holocaust in both the past and present.” (Jennifer Reeve, European History Quarterly, Vol. 46 (2), 2016)

• School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, UK

  Caroline Sharples, Olaf Jensen

Antoine Capet, University of Rouen, UK Tim Cole, University of Bristol, UK Olaf Jensen, University of Leicester, UK Rebecca Jinks Royal Holloway, University of London, UK James Jordan, University of Southampton, UK Tony Kushner University of Southampton, UK Tom Lawson, University of Winchester, UK Duncan Little Falmouth College of Arts, UK Andy Pearce, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Caroline Sharples, University of Leicester, UK Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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