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Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen (editors) BRITAIN AND THE HOLOCAUST Remembering and Representing War and Genocide

Britain and the Holocaust Remembering and Representing War and Genocide

Caroline Sharples Lecturer in Modern European History, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, UK

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Olaf Jensen Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, UK

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Contents

List of Illustrations

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Notes on Contributors

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Introduction Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen

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Part I Confronting the Holocaust 1 ‘No One Believed What We Had Seen’: British Soldiers Who Witnessed Mass Murder in Auschwitz Duncan Little

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2 Holocaust on Trial: Mass Observation and British Media Responses to the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945–1946 Caroline Sharples

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3 Loose Connections? Britain and the ‘Final Solution’ Tony Kushner

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Part II The Holocaust on Screen 4 ‘Marvellous Raisins in a Badly-Cooked Cake’: British Reactions to the Screening of Holocaust Tim Cole

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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

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Preface and Acknowledgements

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Part III The Holocaust in Exhibitions

8 Holocaust Memory and Contemporary Atrocities: The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition and Crimes Against Humanity Exhibition Rebecca Jinks 9 The Holocaust and Colonial Genocide at the Imperial War Museum Tom Lawson

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Part IV Commemorating the Holocaust 10 ‘We Should Do Something for the Fiftieth’: Remembering Auschwitz, Belsen and the Holocaust in Britain in 1995 Mark Donnelly

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11 Britain’s Holocaust Memorial Day: Inculcating ‘British’ or ‘European’ Holocaust Consciousness? Andy Pearce

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12 From Stockholm to Stockton: The Holocaust and/as Heritage in Britain Dan Stone

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Bibliography

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Index

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7 Holocaust Art at the Imperial War Museum, 1945–2009 Antoine Capet