Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50
By: Antero Holmila
Series: Holocaust and its contexts; Holocaust and its contexts
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780230229778
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Press coverage
Description: "Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and the Jewish immigration to Palestine."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; title: Introduction; title: PART I: THE FIRST RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST: THE LIBERATION OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS; title: The British Press Responds to the Liberation of the Concentration Camps; title: The Swedish Press and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps; title: The Finnish Press and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps; title: PART II: THE NUREMBERG TRIAL 1945-46 AND THE HOLOCAUST THROUGH PRESS DISCOURSES IN BRITAIN, SWEDEN AND FINLAND; title: Responding to the Nazi Crimes: The British Press and the Nuremberg Trial; title: Victors, Vanquished and Neutrals: The Swedish Press and the Nuremberg Trial; title: The Nuremberg Trial in the Finnish Press Discourse; title: PART III: FROM SUFFERING TO SILENCE: THE PRESS AND HOLOCAUST DISCOURSES, 1946-1950; title: The Problem of Displaced Jews and the Holocaust; title: The Holocaust, the Founding of Israel and the Arab-Israeli War in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press; title: Forgetting to Remember. The Press Discourse, the Cold War and Conjunctures of Remembrance; title: Conclusions; title: Appendices; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.