Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50 [electronic resource] / Antero Holmila.

This book€examines how the press in Great Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War; what type of meanings the press constructed about the Holocaust, how the horror of the Holocaust in general, and the role of Jewish suffering in partic...

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Main Author: Holmila, Antero
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Holocaust and its contexts.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations and acronyms
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The first responses to the Holocaust: the liberation of the concentration camps
  • The British press responds to the liberation of the concentration camps
  • The Swedish press and the liberation of the concentration camps
  • The Finnish press and the liberation of the concentration camps
  • Part II: the Nuremberg trial 1945-46 and the Holocaust through press discourses in Britain, Sweden and Finland
  • Responding to the Nazi crimes: the British press and the Nuremberg trial
  • Victors, vanquished and neutrals: the Swedish press and the Nuremberg trial
  • The Nuremberg trial in the Finnish press discourse
  • Part III: From suffering to silence: the press and Holocaust discourses, 1946-1950
  • The problem of displaced Jews and the Holocaust
  • The Holocaust, the founding of Israel and the Arab-Israeli War in the British, Swedish and Finnish press
  • Forgetting to remember. the press discourse, the Cold War and conjunctures of remembrance
  • Conclusions
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.