Christopher R. Browning

Jürgen Matthäus

In 1939, the Nazi regime's plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and total mass murder of all Jews within the Nazi grasp. This book is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever written of what took place during this crucial period--of how, precisely, the Nazis' racial policies evolved from persecution and "ethnic cleansing" to the Final Solution of the Holocaust. Meticulously documenting the process that led to this fatal development, Browning shows that Adolf Hitler was the key decision-maker throughout, approving major escalations in Nazi persecution of the Jews at victory-induced moments of euphoria.

The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942

The Origins of the Final Solution

Frank Bajohr

Based on previously inaccessible diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, this important book throws new light on the thoughts and actions of the leading men around Hitler during critical junctures that led to war, genocide, and Nazi Germany's final defeat.

The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust

"The definitive story of the development of the Nazi's anti- Semitic policies, from the beginnings to the heyday of Auschwitz, by the acclaimed author of ORDINARY MEN." "This is a book of exceptional quality- The work of a historian at the peak of his powers, a magisterial study, a profound analysis of how the darkest chapter in human history could come about.' Ian Kershaw, bestselling author of Hitler he Origins of the Final Solution is the most detailed, careful, and comprehensive analysis to date of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan but rather a discovered possibility, Christopher Browning explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination that gradually foreclosed plans for their expulsion from Europe. Only in the interval between late September and late October 1941 did the desire to 'remove' the Jews intersect with the discovery of acceptable means of killing them on a large scale and with the euphoria of expected victory in Russia, all of which followed on from two years of 'race war' and 'racial imperialism' in eastern Europe that prepared 'ordinary Germans' for this fateful task. uthor Bio- - Christopher Browning is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His previous

Jochen Böhler

Klaus-Michael Mallmann

This invaluable work traces the role of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD, the core group of Himmler’s murder units involved in the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” during and immediately after the German campaign in Poland in 1939. In addition to relevant Einsatzgruppen reports, the book includes key documents from other sources, especially eyewitness accounts from victims or onlookers. Such accounts provide an alternative, often much more realistic, perspective on the nature and consequences of the actions previously known only through documentation generated by the perpetrators. With carefully selected primary sources contextualized by the authors’ clear narrative, this work fills an important gap in our understanding of a crucial period in the evolution of policies directed against Jews, Poles, and others deemed dangerous or inferior by the Third Reich. Supplemented by maps and photographs, this book will be an essential reference and research tool.

The Einsatzgruppen in Poland

War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939

Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941–1942, Volume III sheds light on the personal and public lives of Jews during a period when Hitler’s triumph in Europe seemed assured, and the mass murder of millions had begun in earnest. The primary source material presented here makes this volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion.

1941–1942

Jewish Responses to Persecution

Martin Cüppers

Anne Lepper

The mass murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany went hand in hand with the destruction of evidence attesting to this genocide. As Holocaust survivor Jules Schelvis puts it, "[v]ery few documents relating to Sobibor and the other death camps" remain. With its rich photographic imagery, the collection featured in From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor: An SS Officer's Photo Collection sheds new light on the Holocaust and other key aspects of Nazi extermination policy. The materials were compiled by Johann Niemann, an SS officer whose earlier participation in the Nazi "euthanasia" murders made him second-in-command at Sobibor and the first to get killed in the prisoner uprising of October 13, 1943. These documents allow crucial insights into the making of mass murderers, the evolution of the "final solution," and its consequences for the victims. As prevalent as the perpetrator perspective is in Niemann's collection, From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor offers a welcome corrective by complementing his images and documents with testimonies of Sobibor survivors, many of which also available in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) archives. With its compilation of unique primary sources and skillful explication, From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor addresses under-researched aspects of Nazi mass violence beyond the Holocaust and offers a rich resource for researching and teaching.

An SS Officer's Photo Collection

From Euthanasia to Sobibor

From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor

Princess Grace Irish Library

Konrad Kwiet

Fourteen experts address issues of Holocaust representation, interpretation, and remembrance in rapidly shifting landscapes of memory.

Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Mark W. Hornburg

Why do they kill? The publication in 1992 of Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men" raised crucial, previously unasked questions about the Holocaust: what made the members of a German police battalion – "middle-aged family men of working- and lowerclass background" – become mass murderers of Jewish children, women, and men? How does motivation tie in with other factors that prompt participation in the "final solution"? And what can survivor accounts convey about genocide perpetration? Reflecting on the work of one of the field's most influential scholars, the essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our knowledge of humanity's most haunting problem.

Christopher R. Browning and Holocaust Historiography

Beyond "Ordinary Men"

Mark Roseman

Jurgen Matthaus

A history of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1938 told from the Jewish perspective through period documents, annotations, and black-and-white photographs.

Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1933-1938

+++Die lange verschwundenen Tagebücher von Alfred Rosenberg, dem Chef-Ideologen der NSDAP, erstmals in einer Gesamtausgabe – ein Schlüsseldokument zur Geschichte von Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust+++ Seit 1946 verschollen, wurden die Tagebücher des NSDAP-Reichsleiters Alfred Rosenberg erst 2013 aufgefunden. Hier liegen sie erstmals als Gesamtausgabe vor, ausführlich kommentiert von den renommierten Historikern Frank Bajohr(Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien, München) und Jürgen Matthäus (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington). Rosenbergs Aufzeichnungen zeigen, dass seine Rolle bei der Vorbereitung und Umsetzung des Holocaust lange unterschätzt wurde. Schon früh einer der radikalsten Antisemiten, unterstützte er bis zuletzt die deutsche Vernichtungspolitik. Seine Notizen verdeutlichen neben seiner unbedingten Ergebenheit gegenüber Hitler die erbitterte Konkurrenz innerhalb der Funktionselite um den »Führer«, insbesondere die intime Feindschaft zwischen Rosenberg und Joseph Goebbels. Aus der Perspektive eines der Hauptverantwortlichen eröffnet dieses Schlüsseldokument neue, wichtige Einblicke in die vom NS-Regime erzeugte Gewaltdynamik.

Die Tagebücher von 1934 bis 1944

Alfred Rosenberg

Jürgen Förster

Richard Breitman

"Weltanschauliche Erziehung" von SS, Polizei und Waffen-SS im Rahmen der "Endlösung"

Ausbildungsziel Judenmord?

Reflecting on the work of one of the field's most influential scholars, the twenty essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our knowledge of humanity's most haunting problem. Why do they kill? The publication in 1992 of Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men raised crucial, previously unasked questions about the Holocaust: what made the members of a German police battalion - middle-aged family men of working- and lower-class background - become mass murderers of Jewish children, women, and men? How does motivation tie in with other factors that prompt participation in the final solution? And what can survivor accounts convey about genocide perpetration? Reflecting on the work of one of the field's most influential scholars, the twenty essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our knowledge of humanity's most haunting problem.

Emil Kerenji

"This volume contains a concise selection of primary sources on the Holocaust featured and annotated in our larger series titled Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946"--Page 1.

Jürgen Matthäus

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