Steve Hochstadt

Sources of the Holocaust (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive?
This new and improved edition of Sources of the Holocaust brings together over 90 original Holocaust documents and testimonies to put the reader into direct contact with the genocide's human participants. From the origins of Christian antisemitism and the creation of monstrous 'Others' to the immediate aftermath of these crimes against humanity and the rise of right-wing ideologies in the 21st century, this book is structured both chronologically and thematically in order to clearly explain the ideas that made the Holocaust possible, how people mounted resistance at the time, and the Holocaust's legacy today. On top of this unparalleled access to the voices of the Holocaust, Steve Hochstadt's authoritative and scholarly commentaries on each source ensures readers gain a comprehensive understanding of this terrible episode in human history.
Shocking and compelling, this carefully curated collection of primary sources is the definitive account of Holocaust experiences and vital reading for all scholars of modern European history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350328068
• Artikelnr.: 67269846

Autorenporträt

Steve Hochstadt is Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA. He is the author of Mobility and Modernity (1999), Shanghai Geschichten (2007) and Death and Love in the Holocaust (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I. The Context of Christian Antisemitism 1. Excerpts from
the New Testament 2. Jewish chronicle of murders in Rhine cities in 1096
during the First Crusade 3. Excerpts from Martin Luther, On the Jews and
Their Lies, 1543 4. Papal bull about Jews, 'Cum nimis absurdum by Pope Paul
IV, 14 July 1555 5. Excerpts from article 'Jewish Morality' in Vatican
newspaper, 10 January 1893 Part II. The Creation of Monsters in Germany:
Jews and Others 6. Bavarian petition opposing equality for Jews, 10 January
1850 7. Excerpt from Heinrich von Treitschke, 'Our Views', 1879 8. Excerpt
from Permission for the Extermination of Life Unworthy of Life, 1920 9.
Excerpts from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 10. Court judgment in the murder
of a Polish laborer by SA men on 10 August 1932 Part III. The Nazi Attack
on Jews and Other Undesirables in the Third Reich, 1933-1938 11. Bavarian
state report about the murder of a Jewish businessman, 20 March 1933 12.
Memoir by Dr Paula Tobias about boycott of 1 April 1933 13. Minutes of a
meeting about Jewish "attacks against the race", 5 June 1934 14. Report of
underground Social Democratic Party on persecution of German Jews, August
1935 15. Nuremberg Law against intermarriage between Jews and German
citizens, 15 September 1935 16. Form for Jehovah's Witnesses to renounce
their religious beliefs, 1936 17. Speech by Heinrich Himmler to SS leaders
on homosexuality, 18 February 1937 18. Excerpts from the Nazi Party
training manual for Hitler Youth, About the German People and its Living
Space: Handbook for Training the Hitler Youth, 1938 19. Children's story
from Ernst Hiemer, The Poisonous Mushroom, 1938 20. Decree by Heinrich
Himmler on "Combatting the Gypsy Plague", 8 December 1938 Part IV. The
Physical Assault on Jews in Germany, 1938-1939 21. Memoir by Walter Grab
about persecution of Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss of March 1938 22.
Letter urging that Jews be fired from Austrian industry, 29 June 1938 23.
Letter resisting the confiscation of a Jewish business, 14 July 1938 24.
Letter confirming possession of Chinese visa, 23 September 1938 25. British
memorandum on Evian conference, 17 October 1938 26. Report of Darmstadt SA
on Kristallnacht, 11 November 1938 27. Transcript of Nazi Party meeting led
by Field Marshall Hermann Göring after Kristallnacht, 12 November 1938 28.
Letter about finding work in British households for Czech Jewish refugees,
17 November 1938 29. Gestapo report from Bielefeld about Kristallnacht
destruction, 26 November 1938 30. Instruction from Foreign Office on
eliminating Jews from German life, 25 January 1939 31. Instruction from US
Secretary of State on preventing Jewish refugees from entering Shanghai, 18
February 1939 Part V. The Perfection of Genocide as National Policy,
1939-1943 32. Letter from Reinhard Heydrich planning the'concentration' of
Polish Jews, 21 September 1939 33. War diary of Lt. Col. Helmuth Groscurth
about massacres of Polish civilians on 7-8 October 1939 34. Announcement
that Jews in the Lódz region must wear yellow armband, 14 November 1939 35.
Postwar testimony about the first successful gassing of intellectually
disabled people on 4 January 1940 36. Minutes of conference about
deportation of Poles, Jews and Roma, 30 January 1940 37. Report of meeting
of German mayors concerning murder of disabled people, 3 April 1940 38.
Memorandum from US State Department on delaying immigration, 26 June 1940
39. Report of the murder of Jews by Lithuanians in Vilna by Grigorij Schur,
June 1941 40. Table of money saved by murdering disabled people, 1941 41.
Report of Einsatzgruppen murders in Soviet Union, 2 October 1941 42. German
Army orders on the 'Conduct of the Troops in the Eastern Territories', 10
October 1941 43. Plan for 'solution of the Jewish question' by mass
gassing, 25 October 1941 44. Foreign Office memorandum on murder of Jews in
Yugoslavia, 25 October 1941 45. German Army report on shootings of Jews and
Roma in Yugoslavia, 27-30 October 1941 46. Report on police battalion
murder of Jews in Belorussia, 30 October 1941 47. Article by Josef Goebbels
on Jews in Das Reich, 16 November 1941 48. Minutes of the Wannsee
Conference about the 'final solution', 20 January 1942 49. Report on use of
trucks to kill Jews with exhaust gas in Soviet Union, 16 May 1942 50.
Proposal that several million Jews be sterilized for slave labor, 23 June
1942 51. Letter from Gestapo ordering deportation of Jews in Schwerin, 6
July 1942 52. Report by Gestapo on French-German cooperation on deportation
of Jews, 8 July 1942 53. Protest of the Bishop of Montauban against
deportations in France, 26 August 1942 54. Report by Himmler to Hitler on
mass murder of 'partisans' in Soviet Union, 29 December 1942 55. Gestapo
report on deportation of Jews from France, 6 March 1943 56. Protest by
Bulgarian legislators against deportation of Jews, 17 March 1943 57. Order
by Himmler to destroy Ukraine, 7 September 1943 58. Speech by Himmler to
SS-Gruppenführer in Posen, 4 October 1943 59. Postwar testimony about
exhumation and cremation of corpses in 1943-44 60. Report by Odilo
Globocnik on how death camps were financed, December 1943 Part VI. 'Arbeit
Macht Frei': Work and Death in Concentration Camps and Ghettos 61. Normal
murders at Buchenwald in 1941 62. Speech by Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of
Lódz Jewish Council, 17 January 1942 63. Call for resistance in the Vilna
Ghetto by Abba Kovner, 31 December 1941 64. Letter about feeding Soviet
POWs working for German industry, 21 February 1942 65. Order to Warsaw
Jewish Council to organize deportation 'to the East', 22 July 1942 66.
Diary of Oskar Singer in Lódz Ghetto, 27 July 1942 67. Diary of Emanuel
Ringelblum in Warsaw Ghetto, 14 December 1942 68. Report of SS
Concentration Camp Office on mortality of prisoners, 28 December 1942 69.
SS report on revolt in Warsaw Ghetto, 13 May 1943 70. Diary of Hanna
Lévy-Hass in Bergen-Belsen, March 1945 71. Mauthausen death list, 19 March
1945 72. Report of SS doctor on health conditions in Neuengamme, 29 March
1945 Part VII. Assembly Lines of Death: Extermination Camps 73. Postwar
deposition about the use of gas chambers in Belzec in August 1942 74.
Memoir by Filip Müller on use of gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1942 75.
Memoir by Irene Schwarz of Gestapo office work at Birkenau 76. Memoir by
Shalom Kohn of the revolt in Treblinka on 2 August 1943 77. Postwar
statement by Arnest Tauber about slave labor at Auschwitz between 1942 and
1944 78. Report on Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 by escaped prisoners
Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, April 1944 79. Letter by British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden about bombing Auschwitz, 7 July 1944 80. Memoir by
Judith Isaacson on selection of women in Auschwitz, July 1944 81. List of
transports to Birkenau gas chambers during October 1944 Part VIII. The
Aftermath 82. London Agreement among Allies about nature of war crimes
trial, 8 August 1945 83. Summary of evidence from defense witnesses at
Nuremberg Trial, August 1946 84. West German law to compensate victims of
persecution, 29 June 1956 85. Statement of Lutherans about Christians and
Jews, July 1983 86. Speech by Elie Wiesel about President Ronald Reagan's
planned visit to Bitburg cemetery, 19 April 1985 87. Resolution of the East
German Parliament on the Holocaust, 12 April 1990 Part IX. The Holocaust in
Contemporary Life 88. Website about memorial Stolpersteine 89.
Recommendation of Norwegian government to compensate Jews, 26 June 1998 90.
Article 'In Defense of Hitler' in Egyptian government newspaper, 27 May
2001 91. International Tribunal judgement against Radislav Krsti_ for
Srebrenica massacre, 2 August 2001 92. Joint resolution of Maine
legislature on Holocaust remembrance, 13 March 2002 93. Speech by Björn
Höcke in Dresden, organized by the Youth Organization of the Alternative
für Deutschland, 17 January 2017 Conclusion Sources Select Further Reading
Index