Examines the Business Administration Main Office of the SS, which built up the slave-labor system in Nazi concentration camps.

The murder of at least one million Armenian Christians in 1915-16 and of some six million Jews from 1939-45 were the most extreme instances of mass murder in the First and Second World Wars respectively. This book examines the development and dynamics of both genocides. While bringing out the many differences in the origins, course, and nature of the crimes, the book argues that both need to be placed into the context of the wider violent agendas and demographic schemes of the perpetrator states. In the earlier case, it is important to consider the Ottoman violence against Assyrian Christians and Greek Orthodox subjects, and programs of forced assimilation of non-Turkish Muslim groups, including many Muslims victimized by other states. In the later case, it is impossible to understand the development of the 'final solution of the Jewish question' without paying attention to Nazi policy against Slavic groups, the 'disabled, ' and Europe's Romany population. Both genocides, furthermore, need to be examined in the deeper contexts of the multi-causal violence resulting from the collapse of the eastern and southeastern European dynastic empires from the late nineteenth century, and from the establishment of new types of state in their aftermath. Finally, the book explains why these two major genocides occupy very different places in our contemporary memorial culture. It argues that the memory politics of the Armenian genocide illustrate the very tight limits to what we can expect in the way of meaningful international concern for ongoing genocides. Meanwhile, the instrumentalization of the memory of the Holocaust can actually inhibit self-criticism on the parts of the western states that increasingly foreground Holocaust memorial days and museums in their civic education

An author and subject index to selected and American Anglo-Jewish journals of general and scholarly interests.

"Few events in contemporary India have shaken the conscience of the nation as deeply as the Gujarat carnage of 2002. It is indeed a defining event in the biography of the Indian nation. India has witnessed many riots in the past, but never befoe have the foundational principles of Indian society been so comprehensively threatened. Never before has the complicity of the political and bureaucratic establishment been so pitiably obvious. Never before have the riots been so genocidal in character. In a word, the Gujarat carnage stands apart from the rest as a class by itself.... The purpose of this collection is not merely to anatomize violence or to catalogue events that have disgraced the nation. Instead it seeks to go beyond events and attempts to capture multiple voices of reason that defiantly refused to give in."--Book jacket.

Riemer and his contributors argue for a global human rights regime capable of preventing, combatting, and punishing genocide. Such a regime, they assert, will benefit from significant international changes, serious attention to prevention, effective monitoring, keenly targeted sanctions, a standing anti-genocidal police force, a philosophy of just humanitarian intervention, and a permanent international criminal tribunal.

Gripping suspense, sinister plots, love, murder and government malfeasance. First time novelist, N. Xavier Arnold, skillfully spins a yarn blending historically conscious fiction with a contemporary flavor that captures readers and thrusts them forward through a menagerie of climactic spoils in the life of central character, Matthew Peterson.