The Holocaust : a reader / edited by Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang.

Includes bibliographical references.

Anti-Semites / Bernard Lewis -- From Weimar to Hitler / Robert S. Wistrich -- Nation and race / Adolf Hitler -- Nuremberg law for the protection of German blood and of the German honour of 15 September 1935 -- The setting / Henry Friedlander -- Ghetto formation / Raul Hilberg -- From "ethnic cleansing" to genocide to the "Final Solution" : the evolution of the Nazi Jewish policy, 1939-1941 / Christopher R. Browning -- Some thoughts on the treatment of the alien population in the east / Heinrich Himmler -- The "Commissar decree," June 6, 1941 -- Affidavit of SS Grüppenführer Otto Ohlendorf -- Operation Barbarossa as a war of conquest and annihilation / Jürgen Förster -- 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 -- Savage war : German warfare and moral choices in World War II / Omer Bartov -- Hitler's Reichstag speech, January 30, 1939 / Adolf Hitler -- Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942 -- Intentions and the "Final Solution" / Berel Lang -- A controversy about the historicization of national socialism / Martin Broszat and Saul Friedländer -- Justice Jackson's report to the president on atrocities and war crimes, June 7, 1945 / Robert H. Jackson -- Inside the ghetto / Emmanuel Ringelblum -- Notebook H : Oskar Rosenfeld -- The second winter : October 29, 1942-March 18, 1943 / Herman Kruk -- Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum -- United Nations convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, December 9, 1948 -- Defining genocide as a sociological concept / Helen Fein -- Is the Holocaust simply another example of genocide? / Mark Levene -- Conceptual blockages and definitional dilemmas in the "racial century" : genocides of indigenous peoples and the Holocaust / A. Dirk Moses.