Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50 (Holocaust and Its Contexts)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 14
1.1 Responding to the Holocaust: Historiography......Page 16
1.2 Framing the Holocaust: Methodologies......Page 21
1.3 Why Great Britain, Finland and Sweden?......Page 24
1.4 Sources: Selected newspapers......Page 28
1.5 Reporting the Holocaust: An overview......Page 30
Part I: The First Responses to the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Concentration Camps......Page 34
2.1 Introduction......Page 36
2.2 The context of the liberation of the camps in the British press......Page 39
2.3 The questions of German guilt and the knowledge of the camps......Page 43
2.4 The victims of Nazism in the British press discourse......Page 45
2.5 The British press and the suffering of the Jews......Page 48
2.6 Conclusion......Page 50
3.1 Introduction......Page 51
3.2 The liberation of the camps and initial reactions in the Swedish press......Page 52
3.3 The Swedish response: Hearing is believing......Page 56
3.4 Nordic victims of the Holocaust and nationalistic discourse......Page 61
3.5 The questions of German guilt in the Swedish press......Page 64
3.6 Conclusion......Page 69
4.1 Introduction......Page 71
4.2 The context of Finnish response to the liberation of the camps......Page 72
4.3 The Finnish press grapples with the liberation news......Page 76
4.4 Beleaguered Germans in the Finnish press discourse......Page 79
4.5 The real victims and the Finnish press......Page 85
4.6 Conclusion......Page 87
Part II: The Nuremberg Trial 1945–6 and the Holocaust through Press Discourses in Britain, Sweden and Finland......Page 88
5.1 Introduction......Page 90
5.2 The meaning of the trial and the press's understanding of it......Page 92
5.3 Jewish suffering and the British press......Page 96
5.4 The questions of German guilt and re-education......Page 101
5.5 Conclusion......Page 103
6.1 Introduction......Page 104
6.2 Individual guilt in the Swedish press discourse......Page 105
6.3 Ongoing questions of German collective guilt in the Swedish press......Page 110
6.4 The trial, the press and the Jews......Page 116
6.5 Conclusion......Page 120
7.1 Introduction......Page 122
7.2 The Finnish 'War-guilt trial', Nuremberg and nationalistic discourse......Page 123
7.3 Nuremberg, the Finnish press and the extermination of the Jews......Page 126
7.4 The conceptualisation of the Nazi Genocide: The judgment......Page 131
7.5 Conclusion......Page 135
Part III: From Suffering to Silence: The Press and Holocaust Discourses, 1946–50......Page 138
8.1 Introduction......Page 140
8.2 The Harrison Report and the Jewish DPs in Europe......Page 143
8.3 From the Displaced Persons camps to Exodus......Page 147
8.4 The saga of Exodus 1947 and Holocaust survivors in the British, Swedish and Finnish press......Page 154
8.5 Conclusion......Page 162
9.1 Introduction......Page 164
9.2 From the Partition Plan to the end of the British Mandate in Palestine, 1948......Page 165
9.3 The 1948 War, its legacy and the shadows of the Holocaust......Page 173
9.4 The assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte......Page 175
9.5 Conclusion......Page 185
10.1 Introduction......Page 187
10.2 The Cold War metanarrative in the press......Page 189
10.3 Discussing genocide and the Cold War, 1948......Page 196
10.4 Forgetting to remember, the war and the Holocaust......Page 200
10.5 Conclusion......Page 205
Conclusions......Page 207
Appendix A: Selected newspapers, their circulation and political views......Page 217
Appendix B: Timeframe within which different papers were examined......Page 219
Appendix C: Surveyed articles and editorials......Page 220
Appendix D: Distribution of editorials per year......Page 221
Appendix E: Distribution of editorials per topic......Page 222
Appendix F: List of editorial articles......Page 223
Notes......Page 230
Bibliography......Page 264
Index......Page 283