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Germany and the Holocaust
Resources for a study of the Holocaust in history, literature, film, and art.
An Introduction to the Holocaust
- Gale eBooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new windowEach lengthy article is followed by a list of references and/or footnotes. Includes such relevant titles as Encyclopedia Judaica, Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, History in Dispute, and more.
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The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust by A general history of the Holocaust that also delves into the core issues and debates.
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The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust by Call Number: DS135 .E8 E45 20013 volumes
Holocaust: A History by Call Number: D804.3 .D87 2002
The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies by Call Number: D804.3 .O94 2010
The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust by Fourth edition. An historical atlas.
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The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust by Call Number: D805.A2 Y33 20092 volumes
Primary Sources
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The Third Reich Sourcebook by Call Number: DD256.5 .T5245 2013A comprehensive collection of newly translated documents drawn from wide-ranging primary sources.
Landmark Speeches of National Socialism by Call Number: DD253 .L298 2008
Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich by Call Number: DS135.C5 H62 2012This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 years of interviews with over 100 Jews who escaped to Shanghai as refugees.- Documents on Nazism byCall Number: DD256.5 .N59 1975Documents with analysis including the Nuremberg Laws which legalized persecution of the Jews.
- Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression byCall Number: D804.G42 A48 volumes
Also available in a full text digital edition online - Report Concerning the Uprising in the Ghetto of Warsaw and the Liquidation of the Jewish Residential Area byCall Number: D765.2 .W3S7863Translation of Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr, the Nazi report by Jurgen Stroop that documents the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Perpetrators
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Call Number: D804.3 .G648 1996
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Call Number: D810.W7 L69 2013
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Call Number: D804.3 .B77 1998
The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Post-war Lives of Nazi Perpetrators by Available as an e-book
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Call Number: BR856 .H476 2008Available in print and as an e-book
American Response
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America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History by Call Number: D804.19 .A25 1999
The Holocaust in American Life by Call Number: D804.45.U55 N68 2000
Contesting Histories: German and Jewish Americans and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Call Number: D804.348 .S38 2011
Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper by Call Number: D804.7.P73 L44 2005
Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust by Call Number: D804.3 .R65717 2006- The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945 byCall Number: D810 .J4F38
- Why Didn't the Press Shout? American & International Journalism During the Holocaust byCall Number: D804.19 .W49 2003
Other Selected Books
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- Heimat, Nation, Fatherland: The German Sense of Belonging byCall Number: DD76 .H396 1996
The Coming of the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to Genocide by Call Number: D804.3 .K46 2013
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by Call Number: DD256.5 .S48 1960The definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II.
The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich by Call Number: DD232 .M6
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Call Number: DD256.5 .G45 2001
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Call Number: JC481 .R39213 1970
Daily Life During the Holocaust by Call Number: D804.195 .S68 2009
Growing up Female in Nazi Germany by Call Number: HQ1210 .R4713 2006
Children During the Holocaust by Call Number: D804.48 .H43 2011
Out of Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust by Available as an e-book
The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939: A Documentary History by Call Number: DD256.5 .N3553 2012Includes primary documents translated into English.
The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System behind Them by Call Number: D805.G3 K624513 2006
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Publication Date: DD247.E5 A7 2006
"Getting History Right": East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War by Call Number: D804.45.G47 W65 2010
National Responses to the Holocaust: National Identity and Public Memory by Call Number: D804.348 .N38 2014
The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943 by Call Number: DD256.3 .S3362 1983Features letters, diary excerpts, photographs of Hans and Sophie Scholl, transcriptions of the leaflets, and accounts of their trial and execution.
Story of a Secret State by Call Number: D802 .P6K3Memoir of a Polish diplomat who joined the Polish Underground during World War II.
