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"This book recounts the libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt by David Irving, which resulted in a formal denunciation of a Holocaust denier."

"Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust. Learning more about both the women who survived and who did not survive the Nazi genocide, through the testimony of the women themselves, not only increases our understanding of this terrible period in history, but necessarily makes us rethink our relationship to the gendered nature of knowledge itself. This book is about the ways in which socially and culturally constructed gender roles were placed under extreme pressure; yet also about the fact that gender continued to operate as an important arbiter of experience. Indeed, paradoxically enough, the extreme conditions of the Holocaust, even of the death camps, may have reinforced the importance of gender. Whilst men and women for no greater reason than their being Jewish were sentenced to death, gender nevertheless operated as a crucial signifier for survival. Pregnant women as well as women accompanied by young children or those deemed incapable of hard labour were sent straight to the gas chambers. The very qualities which made them women were manipulated and exploited by the Nazis as a source of dehumanization. Moreover, women were less likely to survive the camps even if they were not selected for death. Gender therefore became a matter of life and death."

"Istilah "baik" dan "jahat" dipakai dalam wacana politik luar negeri Amerika, Latar belakang budaya pemikiran Judaisme dan Kristen Protestan mcndasari konsep-konstp kenegaraan. Sebutan the axis of evil ini ditujukan kepada tiga negara yaitu: Irak, Iran, dan Korea Ulara, yang telah dipakai islilahnya pada masa pemeriniahan periode pertama Presiden George Walker Bush, Pada saat ini tindakan lanjutan pasta penyerbuan terhadap Irak bclum ada.Aitikel ini ditulis pada saal mengantisipasi opini publik di Amerika mengenai keputusan Presiden George W. Bush menyerbu Irak dan pengaruhnya terhadap kemungkinan partai Republik mencalonkan kembali Presidcn George W. Bush unluk yang kedua kalinya, Pada saat ini Presiden W. Bush teLah dilanlik untuk masa kepresidenan 2005-2009."

"This book explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates in private organizations and foundations, with Chancellor Kohl located at its center, perceived themselves as the victims of the afterlife of the Holocaust in America. They were concerned that public manifestations of Holocaust memory-e.g., museums, monuments, and movies-could severely damage the Federal Republics reputation in the United States and even cause Americans to call into question the Federal Republics status as an ally. The book uncovers the fears of German officials-some of whom were former Nazis or World War II veterans-about the impact of Holocaust memory on the reputation of the Federal Republic and reveals their at times negative perceptions of American Jews. Focusing on a variety of fields of interaction, ranging from the diplomatic to the scholarly and public spheres, the book unearths the complicated and often contradictory process of managing the legacies of genocide on an international stage. Over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, West German decision-makers realized that American Holocaust memory was not an anti-German plot by American Jews and acknowledged that they could not significantly change American Holocaust discourse. In the end, German confrontation with American Holocaust memory contributed to a more open engagement on the part of the West German government with this memory and eventually rendered it a positive resource for German self-representation abroad."