The origins of the Holocaust / edited with an introduction by Michael R. Marrus.

Includes bibliographical references.

Social Darwinism in Germany, seen as a historical problem / Hans-Günter Zmarzlik -- The mystical origins of National Socialism / G.L. Mosse -- On racism and ani-semitism in occultism and Nazism / Jeffrey A. Goldstein -- Hitler's racial ideology : content and occult sources / Jackson Spielvogel and David Redles -- Science and values : the eugenics movement in Germany and Russia in the 1920s / Loren R. Graham -- Prolegomena to any present analysis of hostility against the Jews / Gavin I. Langmuir -- The theory and practice of anti-semitism / Michael R. Marrus -- European History : seedbed of the Holocaust / J.L. Talmon -- The origins of modern anti-semitism / Shmuel Ettinger -- Comparitive perspectives on modern anti-semitism in the West / Todd M. Endelman -- An economic interpretation of antisemitism in Eastern Europe / Stanislav Andreski -- German antisemitism in the light of post-war historiography / Ismar Schorsch -- Why was there a Jewish question in Imperial Germany? / Peter Pulzer -- Antisemitism as a cultural code : reflections on the history and historiography of antisemitism in Imperial Germany / Shulamit Volkov -- Hitler's anti-semitism : a political appraisal / Martin Needler -- Adolph Hitler's anti-semitism : a study in history and psychoanalysis / Robert G.L. Waite -- Hitler's concept of Lebensraum : the psychological basis / Rudolph Binion -- The Hitler controversy / Geoffrey Cocks -- An overall plan for ani-Jewish legislation in the Third Reich? / Uwe D. Adam -- Social outcasts in the Third Reich / Jeremy Noakes -- The German Jews, 1933-1939 / Werner T. Angress -- The Third Reich and the transfer agreement / David Yisraeli -- The expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany October 1938 to July 1939 : a documentation / Sybil Milton -- The Kristallnacht as turning point : Jewish reactions to Nazi policies / Yehuda Bauer -- The Kristallnacht as a public degradation ritual / Peter Loewenberg -- The strange story of Herschel Grynszpan / Michael R. Marrus -- Jews in concentration camps in Germany prior to World War II / Leni Yahil -- National Socialist Vienna : antisemitism as a housing policy / Gerhard Botz -- The ultimate refuge : suicide in the Jewish community under the Nazis / Konrad Kwiet -- The Jewish badge and yellow star in the Nazi era / Philip Friedman.