Dan Stone
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 180529 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dan Stone |
| PRENOMES | Dan |
| SOBRENOME | Stone |
| ASSINATURA | STONE D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8551-5681 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 88 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 19 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
In(ani)mate Objects
Racist Regimes, Forced Labour and Death
Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology
An Intimate Collection of Pocket Diaries
Survivors of Nazi Persecution
How to Write about the Holocaust
Journal Article How to Write about the Holocaust: The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis Get access How to Write about the Holocaust: The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis. By Theodor PelekanidisLondon: Routledge. 2022. 204pp.£104.00(hardback);£31.19(e-book). Dan Stone Dan Stone Royal Holloway, University of London, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, ghad062, htt…
Dreaming in Auschwitz
Exhibiting the Missing
In June 1947, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) launched an exhibition in London titled ‘Search for the Scattered.’ Some of the materials on display were loaned to the WJC by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)’s Central Tracing Bureau (CTB), the predecessor to the International Tracing Service (ITS). The exhibition presented a detailed accounting of the vital work of both the CTB and the WJC. This paper argues, on t…
Women in child search
One of the most crucial sections of the International Tracing Service, centralized and established in 1948, was the Child Search Branch (CSB), which had the emotionally and ethically complex task of assisting 'unaccompanied children' who were discovered in far larger numbers after 1945 than anyone had expected. This article examines the role of three women relief workers who ran the CSB in the post-war period: Eileen Blackey, Cornelia Heise and E…
Sieg Maandag and Holocaust Art
According to Sarah Gendron, following Terrence Des Pres's notion of "Holocaust etiquette", there are two forms of art which government sponsored museums and memorials feel to be "safe" in representing the Holocaust: pure abstraction or direct, realist representation. The former is permissible since, with its "perceived capacity to sidestep misrepresentation", it "does not seek to portray the event or those involved in a figural way"; the latter i…
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of politic…
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour
Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust
This book contains essays on Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust by distinguished scholar Professor Dan Stone. It examines issues such as race science and the racial state, Nazi race ideology, slave labour, concentration camps, British reaction to the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, the search for missing persons in the chaos of postwar Europe and the postwar revival of fascism. Though mainly focused on Nazi Germany, it also makes comparisons wit…
The Liberation of the Camps
A moving, deeply researched account of survivors’ experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experienc…
I Was a Tape Recorder. I Was a Mailing Box.’
Jan Karski, a courier for the Polish government in exile, secretly entered the Warsaw ghetto and transit camp Izbica to observe the suffering there. Making a careful record of his visit, he traveled the world to tell its leaders what he had witnessed. Karski is one of the most significant witnesses of the Holocaust, whose experiences have been documented innumerable times. To date, however, no comparative study exists of Karski’s interviews. To w…
The Politics of Removing Children
After the Second World War, the International Tracing Service's Child Search Branch (CSB) responded to inquiries for missing children and, until 1950 when funding was stopped, searched for children ‘in the field’. As the Cold War set in, the US military authorities restricted the opportunities for such children, mostly Eastern European, to be removed from their German foster parents and returned to their countries of origin. In the spring of 1948…
Lives Reclaimed
Concentration Camps
Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction provides a global history of concentration camps, showing the differences and similarities between the various camp systems that have been used in the 20th century. Setting concentration camps, such as those under the Third Reich, against the longer history of incarceration, it explains how the ability of the modern state to control populations led to the creation of this extreme institution. Looking…
Dieser Krieg ist der große Rassenkrieg’
This book is published in the series ‘Die Deutschen und der Nationalsozialismus’, which is aimed at a general audience. For scholars there is little here that is new, and it would be unfair to assess the book as one would a research monograph. The question is: how successful is Kundrus’s book on its own terms, as a synthesis of the war and the Holocaust that is accessible and informative for a readership which is well-informed and intelligent, bu…
British Jewry, antisemitism and the Holocaust
David Cesarani died in October 2015. With his passing, we lost a friend, a scholar and one of Britain’s most prominent public intellectuals. David did more than anyone else to develop what has come
The Course of History
Somehow the pathetic dumb suffering of these elderly people moves me more than anything”
Although a great deal has been written, primarily from a medical or psychological perspective, on the ways in which the Holocaust affected survivors’ aging process, not much has been written about elderly survivors in the immediate postwar period. This article asks what we can know about elderly survivors, how they responded to their survival, and how they were cared for after liberation. It considers gender and social class, as well as specific …
The ultimate cross-cultural fertilizer’
This article analyses the transfer of ‘ruralist’ ideas between Germany and Britain, showing how connections can be made across time and space between fascist(ic) ideologies of landscape and rural belonging. Focusing mainly on two individuals who bridged the countries, Rolf Gardiner and Georg Götsch, the author shows that this key aspect of fascism – ironically, one which depended so much on images that glorified ‘local beauty’ – drew on a store o…
Refugees then and now
In a recent survey article, Peter Gatrell argues that ‘refugee history cannot just be about refugees’.1 What does that mean? Historians have long neglected to include refugees in their general nati
The small scale and the enormous crime
Refugees then and now
In a recent survey article, Peter Gatrell argues that ‘refugee history cannot just be about refugees’.1 What does that mean? Historians have long neglected to include refugees in their general nati
On neighbours and those knocking at the door
At the height of the refugee crisis in Europe in autumn 2015, two public intellectuals, Jan T. Gross and G. M. Tamás, a Polish-American historian and a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, respectively, published articles arguing that Eastern Europe’s failure to respond in a humanitarian way to the refugee movements were reminders that the region was still trapped in its past. Specifically, they claimed that the memory of the Second World War, in which…
The historiography of genocide
This article argues that neither the proponents of the uniqueness of the Holocaust nor those who see other genocides as paradigmatic provide helpful ways of furthering the scholarly understanding of genocide. A new generation of genocide scholars is incorporating the findings of earlier research into a synthesis that promises to respect the extremity of the Holocaust as well as the specificities of other genocides, positioning them in a history t…
Genocide as Transgression
The origins of genocide have been sought by scholars in many areas of human experience: politics, religion, culture, economics, demography, ideology. All these of course are valid explanations, and go a long way to getting to grips with the objective conditions surrounding genocide. But, as Berel Lang put it some time ago, there remains an inexplicable gap between the idea and the act of mass murder. This article aims to be a step towards bridgin…
The Sonderkommando Photographs
ecent debates concerning the possibility of representing the Holocaust focus on postwar attempts to do so, often by people who did not experience the events directly.1 The much-discussed works of survivors were of course produced after the liberation of the camps. Much of the existing literature on the representation of the Holocaust, dealing with retrospective reconstructions or responses, tends to concentrate on literature, poetry, film, or his…
Beyond the ‘Auschwitz syndrome’
The end of the Cold war has seen an explosion in Holocaust history, and some significant changes in the main historiographical explanations. The ‘return of ideology’ that began displacing the ‘functionalist’ or ‘structuralist’ dominance of the 1980s remains strong. But it is being supplemented by very detailed regional and local studies, by analyses of different experiences of ghettoization in different places, and by a focus on the widespread pl…
The Domestication of Violence
Stone engages with his subject on two levels, the theoretical and the empirical. On the theoretical side, he argues for the meaningfulness of the term 'collective memory' by showing how the response to the Holocaust in Britain served certain communal needs. 'Collective memory' here is the way in which a group produces narratives of the past which enable it to perpetuate itself, to take account of the past without disturbing its own self-definitio…
Romania and the Jews in the BBC Monitoring Service Reports, 1938–1948
Using the little-known BBC Monitoring Service (BBCM) archives, this article shows how Romanian governments in the period 1938–1948 chose to represent themselves via the medium of radio to the rest of the world. After introducing the BBCM and discussing the problems of using such Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) material, the article shows how four key aspects of Romanian history were presented by the Romanian authorities at this time: the wartime…
Nazism as modern magic
In the 1930s, the functionalist anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski embarked on a lecture tour of the United States in an attempt to alert the American public to the threat posed by Nazism. This article considers how Malinowski's public campaigning built on his anthropological studies, and suggests how the insights contained therein can still be an impetus to further augment our understanding of Nazism as a phenomenon
Race in British Eugenics
The dominant historiographical view of eugenics in Britain is that it was a middle-class protest movement that found in early genetic science a justification for its objections to paying taxes to aid the poor. Often, this position is contrasted with a ‘harder’, blood-and-soil, continental type of eugenics, one that ended in genocide. In this article Stone does not dispute the class-based nature of British eugenics, but shows that, among all kinds…
Excommunicating the past? Narrativism and rational constructivism in the historiography of the Holocaust
This article revisits Hayden White’s claims about historical representation and interpretation as they apply to the historiography of the Holocaust. It engages with the recent work of three theorists of history, all of whom are to a greater or lesser extent indebted to White: Kalle Pihlainen, Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, and Paul A. Roth. In particular, I examine Kuukkanen’s ‘post-narrativist philosophy of historiography’, which regards history as cons…
The English Mistery, the BUF, and the Dilemmas of British Fascism
White men with low moral standards? German anthropology and the Herero genocide
Stone argues that, although German anthropologists were relatively liberal thinkers before 1900, they nevertheless advocated an understanding of race that encouraged hierarchical thinking. Such thinking saw colonized peoples as primitive and culturally inferior. When, around 1900, anthropologists became increasingly reactionary and drawn to social Darwinist and racist ideas, their work served as a scientific legitimation for colonial atrocity, as…
Modernity and violence
(1999). Modernity and violence: Theoretical reflections on the Einsatzgruppen. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 367-378
The Politics of Removing Children
After the Second World War, the International Tracing Service's Child Search Branch (CSB) responded to inquiries for missing children and, until 1950 when funding was stopped, searched for children ‘in the field’. As the Cold War set in, the US military authorities restricted the opportunities for such children, mostly Eastern European, to be removed from their German foster parents and returned to their countries of origin. In the spring of 1948…
Somehow the pathetic dumb suffering of these elderly people moves me more than anything”
Although a great deal has been written, primarily from a medical or psychological perspective, on the ways in which the Holocaust affected survivors’ aging process, not much has been written about elderly survivors in the immediate postwar period. This article asks what we can know about elderly survivors, how they responded to their survival, and how they were cared for after liberation. It considers gender and social class, as well as specific …
A victim-centred historiography of the Holocaust
Jurgen Matthaus (series ed.), Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context. A project of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United Sta
Nazi race ideologues
Stone argues that we need to disaggregate Nazi race ideologues since they do not form one undifferentiated mass. Ultimately, all the Nazis were race ideologues and chief among them were Hitler, Himmler and the other leading figures. All of the leading Nazis, whether they dealt specifically with ‘racial policy’ or not, put forward a racialized ideology, but those who made a name for themselves specifically as race theorists did not therefore all s…
Cold War Ideas
incoherence is their greatest realization
Colonial Fantasies Shattered
J. G. Ballard, author of the 1984 novel Empire of the Sun , was born in the Shanghai International Settlement in China in 1930, into a privileged colonial milieu with a chauffeur, a nanny, and servants. Ballard witnessed at first hand the collapse of the British Empire in Asia. The year 1945 was not a moment of imperial defeat, but of imperial reassertion for Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Britain, each of which saw their futures as global…
Not a race but only a people after all’
By the end of the nineteenth century an earlier ethnological tradition, based mainly on the description of ‘exotic peoples’, had given way to a more scientistic, biologically determinist anthropology. The latter sought, through physical measurements, to explain the racial origins of humankind, taking it for granted that races existed and explaining scientifically how the world's peoples could be categorized on racial grounds. In this scheme the J…
Raphael Lemkin on the Holocaust
For the moral point of this matter is never reached by calling what happened by the name of “genocide” or by counting the many millions of victims: extermination of whole peoples had happened befor
Perec's Antelme
The extremes of englishness
Scholarly work on the British extreme right has examined many of Anthony Mario Ludovici's colleagues, but has until now paid no attention to Ludovici himself. Yet the many books and articles he published not only illustrate the variety of strands which fed into the extreme right; they also provide, thanks to Ludovici's steadfast maintenance of his principles over so long a period, an excellent case study in the changing fortunes of British extrem…
Research on injury prevention
OBJECTIVE: To propose an initial agenda for a systematic international research strategy designed to meet the information needs of injury prevention worldwide. CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION OF ARTICLES: The world literature since 1977 was surveyed to obtain an overview of the current research effort on injury epidemiology and prevention. Articles were cited to illustrate the breadth and nature of work published on the topic with special re…
Homes WithoutHeimats
1997). Homes Without Heimats?: Jean Amery at the limits. Angelaki: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 91-100
Perec's Antelme
The Domestication of Violence
Stone engages with his subject on two levels, the theoretical and the empirical. On the theoretical side, he argues for the meaningfulness of the term 'collective memory' by showing how the response to the Holocaust in Britain served certain communal needs. 'Collective memory' here is the way in which a group produces narratives of the past which enable it to perpetuate itself, to take account of the past without disturbing its own self-definitio…
The extremes of englishness
Scholarly work on the British extreme right has examined many of Anthony Mario Ludovici's colleagues, but has until now paid no attention to Ludovici himself. Yet the many books and articles he published not only illustrate the variety of strands which fed into the extreme right; they also provide, thanks to Ludovici's steadfast maintenance of his principles over so long a period, an excellent case study in the changing fortunes of British extrem…
Modernity and violence
(1999). Modernity and violence: Theoretical reflections on the Einsatzgruppen. Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 367-378
Race in British Eugenics
The dominant historiographical view of eugenics in Britain is that it was a middle-class protest movement that found in early genetic science a justification for its objections to paying taxes to aid the poor. Often, this position is contrasted with a ‘harder’, blood-and-soil, continental type of eugenics, one that ended in genocide. In this article Stone does not dispute the class-based nature of British eugenics, but shows that, among all kinds…
White men with low moral standards? German anthropology and the Herero genocide
Stone argues that, although German anthropologists were relatively liberal thinkers before 1900, they nevertheless advocated an understanding of race that encouraged hierarchical thinking. Such thinking saw colonized peoples as primitive and culturally inferior. When, around 1900, anthropologists became increasingly reactionary and drawn to social Darwinist and racist ideas, their work served as a scientific legitimation for colonial atrocity, as…
An ‘Entirely Tactless Nietzschean Jew’
A much neglected figure in the history of the reception of Nietzsche in Britain, Oscar Levy not only headed the Nietzsche movement, but went on to produce a challenging Nietzschean Zivilisationskritik of his own. Focusing especially on the role of the Jews in western civilization, Levy took on the majority of political ideologies of his day, including popular Nietzscheanism, and called into question the ability of Christianity, liberalism, commun…
The Sonderkommando Photographs
ecent debates concerning the possibility of representing the Holocaust focus on postwar attempts to do so, often by people who did not experience the events directly.1 The much-discussed works of survivors were of course produced after the liberation of the camps. Much of the existing literature on the representation of the Holocaust, dealing with retrospective reconstructions or responses, tends to concentrate on literature, poetry, film, or his…
Breeding Superman
Before World War I there existed an intellectual turmoil in Britain as great as any in Germany, France, or Russia, as the debates over Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and eugenics in the context of early modernism reveal. With the rise of fascism after 1918, these debates became more ideologically driven, with science and vitalist philosophy being hailed in some quarters as saviours from bourgeois decadence, vituperated in others as heralding the ons…
Breeding Superman
Breeding Superman
Before the First World War there existed an intellectual turmoil in Britain as great as any in Germany, France or Russia, as the debates over Nietzsche and eugenics in the context of early modernism reveal. With the rise of fascism after 1918, these debates became more ideologically driven, with science and vitalist philosophy being hailed in some quarters as saviours from bourgeois decadence, vituperated in others as heralding the onset of barba…
Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933–1939
This book examines the large and previously-neglected body of literature on Nazism that was produced in the years 1933-1939. Shifting attention away from high politics or appeasement, it reveals that
Making memory work, or Gedächtnis macht frei
Nazism as modern magic
In the 1930s, the functionalist anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski embarked on a lecture tour of the United States in an attempt to alert the American public to the threat posed by Nazism. This article considers how Malinowski's public campaigning built on his anthropological studies, and suggests how the insights contained therein can still be an impetus to further augment our understanding of Nazism as a phenomenon
The English Mistery, the BUF, and the Dilemmas of British Fascism
The Historiography of the Holocaust
This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical dis
The historiography of genocide
This article argues that neither the proponents of the uniqueness of the Holocaust nor those who see other genocides as paradigmatic provide helpful ways of furthering the scholarly understanding of genocide. A new generation of genocide scholars is incorporating the findings of earlier research into a synthesis that promises to respect the extremity of the Holocaust as well as the specificities of other genocides, positioning them in a history t…
Genocide as Transgression
The origins of genocide have been sought by scholars in many areas of human experience: politics, religion, culture, economics, demography, ideology. All these of course are valid explanations, and go a long way to getting to grips with the objective conditions surrounding genocide. But, as Berel Lang put it some time ago, there remains an inexplicable gap between the idea and the act of mass murder. This article aims to be a step towards bridgin…
Raphael Lemkin on the Holocaust
For the moral point of this matter is never reached by calling what happened by the name of “genocide” or by counting the many millions of victims: extermination of whole peoples had happened befor
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’ to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great Wa…
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History
Introduction Chapter 1. Imperialism and Colonialism: Race Power, Freedom, and the Democracy of Terror in German Racialist Thought Elisa von Joeden-Forgey Chapter 2. Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism Kathryn T. Gines Chapter 3. When the Real Crime Began: Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism and the Dignity of the Western Philosophical Tradition Robert Bernasconi Chapter 4. Race and Bureaucracy Revisited: …
The Historiography of Genocide
The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to
Historiography of Genocide
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