Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,1 (2007) 1-18
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Historians discussing the failure of the world community to do anything on behalf of Jewish victims of the Holocaust in 1933-45 have in mind mainly the failure of so-called humanitarian intervention. The concept of humanitarian intervention on behalf of persecuted minorities evolved in the West during the 19th century, and from the mid-19th century it was extended to Jews. Argues that the world's inactivity or insufficient activity in the face of the Holocaust was mainly the result of the collapse of humanitarian intervention in the wake of World War I. In addition, during the interwar period, ethnic minorities (and Jews were "a minority par excellence") looked increasingly like a force for destabilization, thus making the Great Powers reluctant to intervene on their behalf.
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