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Index

5 The Germans and the Holocaust

Index

Introduction

Historiography

Sources

A Society of Exclusion

A01 Report by Rabbi Max Abraham on his mistreatment by the police

A02 Report of the Rundschau newspaper on the suicide of a Jewish Gymnast

A03 The Laws for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour

A04 Ellen Brandt describes the exclusion and discrimination of Jews in Berlin

A05 Decree on the economic exclusion of Jews in Germany

A06 Devastated interior of a synagogue after 'Kristallnacht' in 1938

A07 Excerpt from diary by Heinrich Mugdan

A08 Decree on the change of Jewish names

A09 Edith Reiss describes a scene from Goettingen, Summer 1939

A10 Diary entry of critic towards the Jewish measurements

Coping Strategies of the German Jews

B01 Letter from Amelie to her son

B02 Excerpt from the report of the immigration advisor in Leipzig

B03 Post- war memoir of a Jewish family in Germany prior to 1939

B04 Farewell notes of two brothers to their parents

B05 The Israelite Community Nuremberg asks the Jewish population for donations

B06 Report on a Zionist Hachshara camp

B07 Letter of parents in Germany to their children in the United States

B08 Thanks letter from Arnold Stein to Nicholas Winton

The Decision-Making Process

C01 Heydrich letter to Ribbentrop regarding the Territorial Final Solution

C02 Rosenberg letter to Bormann about the preparations for the opening of the Institute for Research on the Jewish Question

C03 Eichmann's memo on Jewish immigration and the Resettlement of Jews

C04 Goering's Commission to Heydrich

C05 Excerpt of Goebbel's book "The Jews are Guilty"

C06 Protocol of the Wannsee Conference

C07 Correspondence of Secretary of State Dr. Ganzemueller with Wolff: Transportation of Jews

The Practice of Murder

D01 War Crime Trials of the Einsatzgruppen

D02 Ernst Biberstein statement in the Einsatzgruppen Trial

D03 Report about Shootings of Jews as "Reprisal Measures"

D04 Letter with information on mass graves corpses burial

D05 Excerpts of letters from a police secretary in Mogilev to his wife

D06 Ohlendorf testimony in the Einsatzgruppen trails

D07 Dieter Wisliceny testimony

D08 Jewish prisoners forced to work for a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp

D09 Bodies burning by the Sonderkommando

D10 Josef Michel Dischel post- war memoir of the evacuation of Blechhammer Camp

A Society of Shared Guilt?

E01 Friedrich Kellner Diary entry

E02 Leaflet of the German anti-Nazi group the White Rose

E03 Report on the release of the Jewess Ms. Bartz

E04 Daniel Lotter “Cries out for Atonement”

E05 British protocol of secretly monitored German POWs talking openly about German War Crimes

E06 Report connecting the Bombing of German Cities with the "Final Solution"

E07 Photo of a Death March taken by a Bystander in April 1945

E08 American post- war Placard blaming Germans for the Nazi killing

E09 Interview of Helen Tauber about her time in the DP Camp Feldafing, 1946