Sources of the Holocaust

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9780333963456
ISBN 10:
0333963458
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/24/2004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

This new collection of original Holocaust documents and sources brings readers into direct contact with perpetrators and victims.The words of Nazi leaders and common soldiers, SS doctors and European collaborators show how and why they planned and participated in mass murder.Jewish and non-Jewish victims speak of their persecution and resistance.Steve Hochstadt's commentary on each source outlines the historical causes and step-by-step development of the Holocaust, as well as the continuing debates about its significance.

Acknowledgments

xii

I. Introduction

(6)

II. The Context of Christian Antisemitism

(15)

Excerpts from the New Testament

(2)

Jewish chronicle of murders in Rhine cities in 1096 during the First Crusade

(2)

Excerpts from Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543

(3)

Papal bull about Jews, `Cum nimis absurdum' by Pope Paul IV, 14 July 1555

(3)

Excerpts from article `Jewish Morality' in Vatican newspaper, 10 January 1893

(3)

III. The Creation of Monsters in Germany: Jews and Others

(14)

Bavarian petition opposing equality for Jews, 10 January 1850

(3)

Excerpt from Heinrich von Treitschke, `Our Views', 1879

(3)

Excerpt from Permission for the Extermination of Life Unworthy of Life, 1920

(3)

Court judgment in the murder on 10 August 1932 of a Polish laborer by SA men

(4)

IV. The Nazi Attack on Jews and Other Undesirables in the Third Reich, 1933--1938

(20)

Bavarian state report about the murder of a Jewish businessman, 20 March 1933

(2)

Memoir by Dr Paula Tobias about boycott of 1 April 1933

(3)

Report from underground Social Democratic Party on persecution of German Jews, August 1935

(2)

Nuremberg Law against intermarriage between Jews and German citizens, 15 September 1935

(3)

Form for Jehovah's Witnesses to renounce their religious beliefs, 1936

(2)

Speech by Heinrich Himmler to SS leaders on homosexuality, 18 February 1937

(3)

Children's story from Ernst Hiemer, The Poisonous Mushroom, 1938

(4)

V. The Physical Assault on Jews in Germany, 1938--1939

(29)

Memoir by Walter Grab about persecution of Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss of March 1938

(3)

Letter urging that Jews be fired from Austrian industry, 29 June 1938

(2)

Letter resisting the confiscation of a Jewish business, 14 July 1938

(2)

Letter confirming possession of Chinese visa, 23 September 1938

(2)

British memorandum on Evian conference, 17 October 1938

(3)

Report of Darmstadt SA on Kristallnacht, 11 November 1938

(3)

Letter about finding work in British households for Czech Jewish refugees, 17 November 1938

(2)

Gestapo report from Bielefeld about Kristallnacht destruction, 26 November 1938

(4)

Instruction from Foreign Office on eliminating Jews from German life, 25 January 1939

(4)

Instruction from US Secretary of State on preventing refugees to Shanghai, 18 February 1939

(2)

VI. The Perfection of Genocide as National Policy, 1939--1943

(94)

Letter from Reinhard Heydrich planning the `concentration' of Polish Jews, 21 September 1939

(3)

War diary of Lt. Col. Helmuth Groscurth about massacres of Polish civilians on 7--8 October 1939

(3)

Announcement that Jews in the Lodz region must wear yellow armband, 14 November 1939

(2)

Postwar testimony about the first successful gassing of mentally handicapped on 4 January 1940

(3)

Minutes of conference about deportation of Poles, Jews and Gypsies, 30 January 1940

(5)

Report of meeting of German mayors concerning murder of the handicapped, 3 April 1940

103

(3)

Memorandum from US State Department on delaying immigration, 26 June 1940

106

(2)

Table of money saved by murdering the handicapped, 1941

108

(2)

Report of Einsatzgruppen murders in Soviet Union, 2 October 1941

110

(2)

German Army orders on the `Conduct of the Troops in the Eastern Territories', 10 October 1941

112

(4)

Plan for `solution of the Jewish question' by mass gassing, 25 October 1941

116

(2)

Foreign Office memorandum on murder of Jews in Yugoslavia, 25 October 1941

118

(3)

German Army report on shooting of Jews and Gypsies in Yugoslavia, 27--30 October 1941

121

(3)

Report on police battalion murder of Jews in Belorussia, 30 October 1941

124

(5)

Article by Josef Goebbels on Jews in Das Reich, 16 November 1941

129

(3)

Minutes of the Wannsee Conference about the `final solution', 20 January 1942

132

(5)

Report on use of trucks to kill Jews with exhaust gas in Soviet Union, 16 May 1942

137

(3)

Proposal that several million Jews be sterilized for slave labor, 23 June 1942

140

(3)

Letter from Gestapo ordering deportation of Jews in Schwerin, 6 July 1942

143

(3)

Report by Gestapo on French-German cooperation on deportation of Jews, 8 July 1942

146

(4)

Protest of the Bishop of Montauban against deportations in France, 26 August 1942

150

(2)

Report by Himmler to Hitler on mass murder of `partisans' in Soviet Union, 29 December 1942

152

(2)

Gestapo report on deportation of Jews from France, 6 March 1943

154

(4)

Protest by Bulgarian legislators against deportation of Jews, 17 March, 1943

158

(3)

Order by Himmler to destroy Ukraine, 7 September 1943

161

(2)

Speech by Himmler to SS Gruppenfuhrer in Posen, 4 October 1943

163

(3)

Postwar testimony about exhumation and cremation of corpses in 1943--44

166

(4)

Report by Odilo Globocnik on how death camps were financed, December 1943

170

(9)

VII `Arbeit Macht Frei': Work and Death in Concentration Camps and Ghettos

179

(43)

Normal murders at Buchenwald in 1941

181

(2)

Speech by Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of Lodz Jewish Council, 17 January 1942

183

(3)

Call for resistance in the Vilna Ghetto, January 1942

186

(4)

Letter about feeding Soviet POWs working for German industry, 21 February 1942

190

(2)

Order to Warsaw Jewish Council to organize deportation `to the East', 22 July 1942

192

(3)

Diary of Oskar Singer in Lodz Ghetto, 27 July 1942

195

(5)

Diary of Emanuel Ringelblum in Warsaw Ghetto, 14 December 1942

200

(5)

Report of SS Concentration Camp Office on mortality of prisoners, 28 December 1942

205

(3)

SS report on revolt in Warsaw Ghetto, 13 May 1943

208

(3)

Diary of Hanna Levy-Hass in Bergen-Belsen, March 1945

211

(3)

Mauthausen death list, 19 March 1945

214

(4)

Report of SS doctor on health conditions in Neuengamme, 29 March 1945

218

(4)

VIII. Assembly Lines of Death: Extermination Camps

222

(33)

Postwar deposition about the use of gas chambers in Belzec in August 1942

223

(4)

Memoir by Filip Muller on use of gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1942

227

(5)

Memoir by Irene Schwarz of Gestapo office work at Birkenau

232

(3)

Memoir by Shalom Kohn of the revolt in Treblinka on 2 August 1943

235

(7)

Postwar statement by Arnest Tauber about slave labor at Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944

242

(4)

Letter by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden about bombing Auschwitz, 7 July 1944

246

(2)

Memoir by Judith Isaacson on selection of women in Auschwitz, July 1944

248

(5)

List of transports to Birkenau gas chambers during October 1944

253

(2)

IX. The Aftermath

255

(24)

London Agreement among Allies about nature of war crimes trial, 8 August 1945

257

(4)

Summary of evidence from defense witnesses at Nuremberg Trial, August 1946

261

(5)

West German law to compensate victims of persecution, 29 June 1956

266

(4)

Statement of Lutherans about Christians and Jews, July 1983

270

(3)

Speech by Elie Wiesel about President Ronald Reagan's planned visit to Bitburg cemetery, 19 April 1985

273

(3)

Resolution of the East German Parliament on the Holocaust, 12 April 1990

276

(3)

X. The Holocaust in Contemporary Life

279

(15)

Recommendation of Norwegian government to compensate Jews, 26 June 1998

280

(5)

Article `In Defense of Hitler' in Egyptian government newspaper, 27 May 2001

285

(3)

International Tribunal judgement against Radislav Krstic for Srebrenica massacre, 2 August 2001

288

(3)

Joint resolution of Maine legislature on Holocaust remembrance, 13 March 2002

291

(3)

XI. Conclusion

294

(6)

Sources

300

(7)

Bibliography

307

(5)

Index

312

Sources of the Holocaust

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