The Holocaust: A Reader

Prelims......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
List of Maps......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Chronology......Page 13
Glossary......Page 19
Introduction: Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang......Page 23
Part I Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from......Page 31
Introduction......Page 33
1 Anti-Semites: Bernard Lewis......Page 39
2 From Weimar to Hitler: Robert S. Wistrich......Page 66
3 Nation and Race: Adolf Hitler......Page 90
4 Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German
Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935......Page 104
Part II A Racial Europe: Nazi Population
and Resettlement Policy......Page 107
Introduction......Page 109
5 The Setting: Henry Friedlander......Page 114
6 Ghetto Formation: Raul Hilberg......Page 146
7 From ‘‘Ethnic Cleansing’’ to Genocide to the
‘‘Final Solution’’: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy,
1939–1941: Christopher R. Browning......Page 165
8 Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population
in the East: Heinrich Himmler......Page 189
Part III War and the Turn to Genocide......Page 193
Introduction......Page 195
9 The ‘‘Commissar Decree,’’ June 6, 1941......Page 199
10 Affidavit of SS Gru¨ ppenfu¨ hrer Otto Ohlendorf......Page 203
11 Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and
Annihilation: Ju¨ rgen Fo¨ rster......Page 206
12 From Mass Murder to the ‘‘Final Solution’’:
The Shooting of Jewish Civilians during the First Months
of the Eastern Campaign within the Context of the
Nazi Jewish Genocide: Peter Longerich......Page 220
13 Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices
in World War II: Omer Bartov......Page 242
Part IV Whose ‘‘Final Solution’’? Revisiting
Intentionalism and Functionalism......Page 255
Introduction......Page 257
14 Hitler’s Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939: Adolf Hitler......Page 261
15 Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942......Page 265
16 Intentions and the ‘‘Final Solution’’: Berel Lang......Page 274
17 A Controversy about the Historicization of National
Socialism: Martin Broszat and Saul Friedla¨nder......Page 286
18 Justice Jackson’s Report to the President on
Atrocities and War Crimes, June 7, 1945: Robert H. Jackson......Page 323
Part V Response and Testimony:
At the Center of the Whirlwind......Page 329
Introduction......Page 331
19 Inside the Ghetto: Emmanuel Ringelblum......Page 335
20 Notebook H: Oskar Rosenfeld......Page 355
21 The Second Winter: October 29, 1942–March 18, 1943:
Herman Kruk......Page 370
22 Letters from Westerbork: Etty Hillesum......Page 398
Part VI Genocide and the Holocaust......Page 409
Introduction......Page 411
23 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948......Page 415
24 Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept: Helen Fein......Page 420
25 Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide?:
Mark Levene......Page 442
26 Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas
in the ‘‘Racial Century’’: Genocides of Indigenous Peoples
and the Holocaust: A. Dirk Moses......Page 470