Holocaust Reader P (Paperback)

List of Maps.

Acknowledgments.

Chronology.

Glossary.

Introduction: Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang.

Part I Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism.

Introduction.

1 Anti-Semites: Bernard Lewis.

2 From Weimar to Hitler: Robert S. Wistrich.

3 Nation and Race: Adolf Hitler.

4 Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935.

Part II A Racial Europe: Nazi Population and Resettlement Policy.

Introduction.

5 The Setting: Henry Friedlander.

6 Ghetto Formation: Raul Hilberg.

7 From “Ethnic Cleansing” to Genocide to the “Final Solution”: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939–1941: Christopher R. Browning.

8 Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East: Heinrich Himmler.

Part III War and the Turn to Genocide.

Introduction.

9 The “Commissar Decree,” June 6, 1941.

10 Affidavit of SS Grueppenfuehrer Otto Ohlendorf.

11 Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation: Jürgen Förster.

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.

13 Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II: Omer Bartov.

Part IV Whose "Final Solution"? Revisted Intentionalism and Functionalism.

Introduction.

14 Hitler’s Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939 : Adolf Hitler.

15 Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942.

16Intentions and the “Final Solution:” Berel Lang.

17 A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism: Martin Broszat and Saul Friedlaender.

18 Justice Jackson’s Report to the President on Atrocities and War Crimes, June 6, 1945: Robert H. Jackson.

Part V Response and Testimony: At the Center of the Whirlwind.

Introduction.

19 Inside the Ghetto: Emmanuel Ringelblum.

20 Notebook H: Oskar Rosenfeld.

21 The Second Winter: October 29, 1942--March 18, 1943: Herman Kruk.

22 Letters from Westerbork: Etty Hillesum.

Part VI Genocide and the Holocaust.

Introduction.

23 UnitedNations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948..

24 Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept: Helen Fein.

25 Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide? Mark Levene.

26 Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the “Racial Century:” Genocides of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust: A. Dirk Moses