Sources of the Holocaust.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figure -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: The context of Christian antisemitism -- Chapter 1: Excerpts from the New Testament -- Chapter 2: Jewish chronicle of murders in Rhine cities in 1096 during the First Crusade -- Chapter 3: Excerpts from Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543 -- Chapter 4: Papal bull about Jews, 'Cum nimis absurdum' by Pope Paul IV, 14 July 1555 -- Chapter 5: Excerpts from article 'Jewish Morality' by Vatican newspaper, 10 January 1893 -- Section II: The creation of monsters in Germany:: Jews and others -- Chapter 6: Bavarian petition opposing equality for Jews, 10 January 1850 -- Chapter 7: Excerpt from Heinrich von Treitschke, 'Our Views', 1879 -- Chapter 8: Excerpt from Permission for the Extermination of Life Unworthy of Life, 1920 -- Chapter 9: Excerpts from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, 1924 -- Chapter 10: Court judgment in the murder of a Polish laborer by SA men on 10 August 1932 -- Section III: The Nazi attack on Jews and other undesirables in the Third Reich, 1933-1938 -- Chapter 11: Bavarian state report about the murder of a Jewish businessman, 20 March 1933 -- Chapter 12: Memoir by Dr Paula Tobias about boycott of 1 April 1933 -- Chapter 13: Minutes of a meeting about Jewish 'attacks against the race', 5 June 1934 -- Chapter 14: Report of underground Social Democratic Party on persecution of German Jews, August 1935 -- Chapter 15: Nuremberg Law against intermarriage between Jews and German citizens, 15 September 1935 -- Chapter 16: Form for Jehovah's Witnesses to renounce their religious beliefs, 1936 -- Chapter 17: Speech by Heinrich Himmler to SS leaders on homosexuality, 18 February 1937.

Chapter 18: Excerpts from the Nazi Party training manual for Hitler Youth, About the German People and Its Living Space: 1938 -- Chapter 19: Children's story from Ernst Hiemer, The Poisonous Mushroom, 1938 -- Chapter 20: Decree by Heinrich Himmler on 'Combatting the Gypsy Plague', 8 December 1938 -- Section IV: The physical assault on Jews in Germany, 1938-1939 -- Chapter 21: Memoir by Walter Grab about persecution of Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss of March 1938 -- Chapter 22: Letter urging that Jews be fired from Austrian industry, 29 June 1938 -- Chapter 23: Letter resisting the confiscation of a Jewish business, 14 July 1938 -- Chapter 24: Letter confirming possession of Chinese visa, 23 September 1938 -- Chapter 25: British memorandum on Evian conference, 17 October 1938 -- Chapter 26: Report of Darmstadt SA on Kristallnacht, 11 November 1938 -- Chapter 27: Transcript of Nazi Party meeting led by Field Marshal Hermann Göring after Kristallnacht, 12 November 1938 -- Chapter 28: Letter about finding work in British households for Czech Jewish refugees, 17 November 1938 -- Chapter 29: Gestapo report from Bielefeld about Kristallnacht destruction, 26 November 1938 -- Chapter 30: Instruction from Foreign Office on eliminating Jews from German life, 25 January 1939 -- Chapter 31: Instruction from US Secretary of State on preventing Jewish refugees to Shanghai, 18 February 1939 -- Section V: The perfection of genocide as national policy, 1939-1943 -- Chapter 32: Letter from Reinhard Heydrich planning the 'concentration' of Polish Jews, 21 September 1939 -- Chapter 33: War diary of Lt. Col. Helmuth Groscurth about massacres of Polish civilians on 7-8 October 1939 -- Chapter 34: Announcement that Jews in the Łódz ́region must wear yellow armband, 14 November 1939.

Chapter 35: Postwar testimony about the first successful gassing of intellectually disabled people on 4 January 1940 -- Chapter 36: Minutes of conference about deportation of Poles, Jews, and Roma, 30 January 1940 -- Chapter 37: Report of meeting of German mayors concerning murder of disabled people, 3 April 1940 -- Chapter 38: Memorandum from US State Department on delaying immigration, 26 June 1940 -- Chapter 39: Report of the murder of Jews by Lithuanians in Vilna by Grigorij Schur, June 1941 -- Chapter 40: Table of money saved by murdering disabled people, 1941 -- Chapter 41: Report of Einsatzgruppen murders in Ukraine, 2 October 1941 -- Chapter 42: German Army orders on the 'Conduct of the Troops in the Eastern Territories', 10 October 1941 -- Chapter 43: Plan for 'solution of the Jewish question' by mass gassing, 25 October 1941 -- Chapter 44: Foreign Office memorandum on murder of Jews in Yugoslavia, 25 October 1941 -- Chapter 45: German Army report on shootings of Jews and Roma in Yugoslavia, 27-30 October 1941 -- Chapter 46: Report on police battalion murder of Jews in Belorussia, 30 October 1941 -- Chapter 47: Article by Josef Goebbels on Jews in Das Reich, 16 November 1941 -- Chapter 48: Minutes of the Wannsee Conference about the 'final solution', 20 January 1942 -- Chapter 49: Report on use of trucks to kill Jews with exhaust gas in Soviet Union, 16 May 1942 -- Chapter 50: Proposal that several million Jews be sterilized for slave labor, 23 June 1942 -- Chapter 51: Letter from Gestapo ordering deportation of Jews in Schwerin, 6 July 1942 -- Chapter 52: Report by Gestapo on French-German cooperation on deportation of Jews, 8 July 1942 -- Chapter 53: Protest of the Bishop of Montauban against deportations in France, 26 August 1942 -- Chapter 54: Report by Himmler to Hitler on mass murder of 'partisans' in Soviet Union, 29 December 1942.

Chapter 55: Gestapo report on deportation of Jews from France, 6 March 1943 -- Chapter 56: Protest by Bulgarian legislators against deportation of Jews, 17 March 1943 -- Chapter 57: Order by Himmler to destroy Ukraine, 7 September 1943 -- Chapter 58: Speech by Himmler to SS-Gruppenführer in Posen, 4 October 1943 -- Chapter 59: Postwar testimony about exhumation and cremation of corpses in 1943-1944 -- Chapter 60: Report by Odilo Globocnik on how death camps were financed, December 1943 -- Section VI: 'Arbeit Macht Frei':: Work and death in concentration camps and ghettos -- Chapter 61: Normal murders at Buchenwald in 1941 -- Chapter 62: Call for resistance in the Vilna Ghetto by Abba Kovner, 31 December 1941 -- Chapter 63: Speech by Chaim Rumkowski, Chair of Łódz ́Jewish Council, 17 January 1942 -- Chapter 64: Letter about feeding Soviet POWs working for German industry, 21 February 1942 -- Chapter 65: Order to Warsaw Jewish Council to organize deportation 'to the East', 22 July 1942 -- Chapter 66: Diary of Oskar Singer in Łódz ́Ghetto, 27 July 1942 -- Chapter 67: Diary of Emanuel Ringelblum in Warsaw Ghetto, 14 December 1942 -- Chapter 68: Report of SS Concentration Camp Office on mortality of prisoners, 28 December 1942 -- Chapter 69: SS report on revolt in Warsaw Ghetto, 13 May 1943 -- Chapter 70: Diary of Hanna Lévy-Hass in Bergen-Belsen, March 1945 -- Chapter 71: Mauthausen death list, 19 March 1945 -- Chapter 72: Report of SS doctor on health conditions in Neuengamme, 29 March 1945 -- Chapter 73: Postwar deposition about the use of gas chambers in Belzec in August 1942 -- Chapter 74: Memoir by Filip Müller on use of gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1942 -- Chapter 75: Memoir by Irene Schwarz on Gestapo office work at Birkenau -- Chapter 76: Memoir by Shalom Kohn on the revolt in Treblinka on 2 August 1943.

Chapter 77: Postwar statement by Arnest Tauber about slave labor at Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 -- Chapter 78: Report on Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 by escaped prisoners Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, April 1944 -- Chapter 79: Letter by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden about bombing Auschwitz, 7 July 1944 -- Chapter 80: Memoir by Judith Isaacson on selection of women in Auschwitz, July 1944 -- Chapter 81: List of transports to Birkenau gas chambers during October 1944 -- Chapter 82: London Agreement among Allies about nature of war crimes trial, 8 August 1945 -- Chapter 83: Summary of evidence from defense witnesses at Nuremberg Trial, August 1946 -- Chapter 84: West German law to compensate victims of persecution, 29 June 1956 -- Chapter 85: Statement of Lutherans about Christians and Jews, July 1983 -- Chapter 86: Speech by Elie Wiesel about President Ronald Reagan's planned visit to Bitburg cemetery, 19 April 1985 -- Chapter 87: Resolution of the East German Parliament on the Holocaust, 12 April 1990 -- Chapter 88: Website about memorial Stolpersteine -- Chapter 89: Recommendation of Norwegian government to compensate Jews, 26 June 1998 -- Chapter 90: Article 'In Defense of Hitler' in Egyptian government newspaper, 27 May 2001 -- Chapter 91: International Tribunal judgment against Radislav Krstic ́for Srebrenica massacre, 2 August 2001 -- Chapter 92: Joint resolution of Maine legislature on Holocaust remembrance, 13 March 2002 -- Chapter 93: Speech by Björn Höcke in Dresden, organized by the Youth Organization of the Alternative für Deutschland, 17 January 2017 -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Select Further Reading -- Index.

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