A Holocaust Reader: From Ideology to

This unique book presents selections of original material related to the Holocaust, including documents, memoirs, and other primary sources that allows readers an unfiltered, firsthand means of evaluating the causes, events, and results of the Holocaust.A Holocaust Readerincludes material excerpted from documents and memoirs that is intended to supplement information generally available on the Holocaust. It also includes an index, uncommon in anthologies.An essential reference book for anyone studying the Holocaust for personal or professional reasons.

Preface

xi

Chapter 1 Prejudice and Anti-Semitism

1

(23)

Introduction

1

(2)

Milton Kleg

"Hate Prejudice and Racism"

3

(7)

Joel Carmichael

"The Satanizing of the Jews: Origin and Development of Mystical Anti-Semitism"

10

(9)

Adolf Hitler

"Selection" from Mein Kampf

19

(5)

Chapter 2 The World that Was Annihilated

24

(21)

Introduction

24

(2)

Milton Meltzer

"Study Is the Best of Wares"

26

(6)

Milton Meltzer

"Fun and Feasts"

32

(5)

Yisrael Gutman

"Polish Antisemitism between the Wars"

37

(3)

Samuel D. Kassow

"Community and Identity in the Interwar Shtetl"

40

(5)

Chapter 3 The Nazi Rise to Power

45

(20)

Introduction

45

(3)

S. William Halperin

"Germany Tried Democracy: A Political History of the Reich from 1918 to 1933"

48

(2)

Count Ulrich Von Brockdorff-Rantzau

"Speech of the German Delegation, Versailles, May 7, 1919"

50

(2)

"The Constitution of the German Republic"

52

(5)

Heinrich Hauser

"The Unemployed"

57

(2)

Emil Julius Gumbel

"Four Years of Political Murder"

59

(6)

Chapter 4 Hitler's Instruments of Murder

65

(24)

Introduction

65

(2)

Hanno Sowade

"Otto Ohlendorf: Non-conformist, SS Leader and Economic Functionary"

67

(6)

Albert Speer

"Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs"

73

(7)

Edouard Calic

"Reinhard Heydrich: The Chilling Story of the Man Who Masterminded the Nazi Death Camps"

80

(9)

Chapter 5 Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1940

89

(21)

Introduction

89

(3)

Rita S. Botwinick

"Winzig, Germany, 1933-1946: The History of a Town under the Third Reich"

92

(9)

Johannes Steinhoff

Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showalter, "Helmut Schmidt"

101

(2)

Johannes Steinhoff

Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showalter, "Inge Aicher-Scholl"

103

(2)

Johannes Steinhoff

Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showalter, "Marianne Hoppe"

105

(2)

Adolf Hitler

"Selection" from Mein Kampf

107

(3)

Chapter 6 German Jews or Jews in Germany?

110

(20)

Introduction

110

(2)

Robert Weltsch

"Wear It with Pride, the Yellow Badge"

112

(2)

"Organization of the Anti-Jewish Boycott of April 1, 1933 -- Instructions Given by the National-Socialist Party"

114

(3)

J. Goebbels

"From Goebbels' Diary on the Boycott"

117

(1)

Hans Hinkel

"The German Authorities and the Cultural Association of German Jews"

118

(1)

"Activities of the Cultural Association of German Jews"

119

(1)

"Activities of the Hilfsverein in the Field of Emigration"

120

(1)

"Nuremberg Laws on Reich Citizenship, September 15, 1935"

121

(1)

"Nuremberg Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, September 15, 1935"

122

(2)

Adolf Hitler

"Selection" from Mein Kampf

124

(3)

Maria Zelzer

"The Course and Fate of the Jews of Stuttgart: A Memorial Book Issued by the City of Stuttgart"

127

(3)

Chapter 7 Hitler's War

130

(15)

Introduction

130

(2)

Adolf Hitler

"Selection" from Mein Kampf

132

(4)

James Lucas

"World War Two through German Eyes"

136

(3)

Erich von Manstein

"Lost Victories"

139

(6)

Chapter 8 The Ghettos

145

(17)

Introduction

145

(2)

"Establishment of Judenrate (Jewish Councils) in the Occupied Territories, November 28, 1939"

147

(1)

"Report by Uebelhoer on the Establishment of the Ghetto in Lodz, December 10, 1939"

148

(2)

"Rumkowski's Address at the Time of the Deportation of the Children from the Lodz Ghetto, September 4, 1942"

150

(1)

"Notes by a Jewish Observer in the Lodz Ghetto following the Deportation of the Children"

151

(2)

"Call to Resistance by the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943"

153

(1)

Alexander Donat

"Behind the Walls"

154

(8)

Chapter 9 The Genocide

162

(25)

Introduction

162

(2)

"Protocol of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942"

164

(7)

Erna F. Rubenstein

"The Survivor in Us All: Four Young Sisters in the Holocaust"

171

(4)

Rudolf Hoess

"Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess"

175

(2)

Henry Orenstein

"The March"

177

(7)

"Extract from Evidence Given at the Nuremberg Trials on the Auschwitz Extermination Camp"

184

(3)

Chapter 10 Resistance and Rescue

187

(19)

Introduction

187

(3)

"Call for Resistance by the Jewish Military Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943"

190

(1)

"The Last Letter from Mordecai Anielowicz, Warsaw Ghetto Revolt Commander, April 23, 1943"

191

(1)

B. A. Sijes

"The Helplessness of Dutch Jewry"

192

(5)

Nechama Tec

"Rescue or Resistance"

197

(9)

Bibliography

206

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A Holocaust Reader: From Ideology to Annihilation

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