Britain and the Holocaust Remembering and Representing War and Genocide [Hardcover]

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.Introduction; Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen PART I: CONFRONTING THE HOLOCAUST 1. 'No One Believed What We Had Seen': British Soldiers who Witnessed Mass Murder in Auschwitz; Duncan Little 2. Holocaust on Trial: Mass Observation and British Media Responses to the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945-6; Caroline Sharples 3. Loose Connections? Britain and the 'Final Solution'; Tony Kushner PART II: THE HOLOCAUST ON SCREEN 4. 'Marvellous Raisins in a Badly-Cooked Cake': British reactions to the screening of Holocaust;Tim Cole 5. '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 6. The Holocaust in British Television and Film: A Look Over the Fence; Olaf Jensen PART III: THE HOLOCAUST IN EXHIBITIONS 7. Holocaust Art at the Imperial War Museum, 1945-2009; Antoine Capet 8. Holocaust Memory and Contemporary Atrocities: The IWM's Holocaust Exhibition and Crimes Against Humanity Exhibition; Rebecca Jinks 9. The Holocaust and Colonial Genocide at the Imperial War Museum; Tom Lawson PART III: COMMEMORATING THE HOLOCAUST 10. 'We Should Do Something for the Fiftieth': Remembering Auschwitz, Belsen and the Holocaust in Britain in 1995; Mark Donnelly 11. Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day: Inculcating 'British' or 'European' Holocaust Consciousness?; Andy Pearce 12. From Stockholm to Stockton: The Holocaust And/As Heritage in Britain; Dan Stone

The historiography of Britains relationship with the Holocaust is now an area of significant scholarly interest. Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensens edited collection provides an up-lS8