Title Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50 / Antero Holmila

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) Series The holocaust and its contexts Holocaust and its contexts. 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 Summary 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 particular was mediated to the readers of mainstream newspapers in Britain, Sweden and Finland. It argues that in all three countries examined here, representations of the Holocaust were, in the first instance, dependent on how they could be fitted into each country's nationalistic narratives. By way of examining the press discourses on the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and the Jewish immigration to Palestine, among other themes, this work challenges many conventional wisdoms about the marginalisation of the Holocaust, especially the strength of the Cold War ethos in the process of marginalisation "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Press coverage -- Great Britain Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Press coverage -- Sweden Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Press coverage -- Finland HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. HISTORY -- Europe -- Scandinavia. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. HISTORY -- Holocaust. Press coverage Finland Great Britain Sweden Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230305861 0230305865 1349311065 9781349311064

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