This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.
- Interdisciplinary content encourages students to engage with philosophical, political, cultural and literary debate as well as historiographical issues.
- Integrates oral histories and testimonies from both victims and perpetrators, including Jewish council leaders, victims of ghettos and camps, SS officials and German soldiers.
- Subsections can be used as the basis for oral or written exercises.
- Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.
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 TlÓ4
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