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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 Donald L. Niewyk; Francis R. Nicosia
A general history of the Holocaust that also delves into the core issues and debates.
E-bookThe Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust by Shmuel Spector; Geoffrey Wigoder
Call Number: DS135 .E8 E45 20013 volumesHolocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork; Robert J. Van Pelt
Call Number: D804.3 .D87 2002The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies by Peter Hayes; John K. Roth
Call Number: D804.3 .O94 2010The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
Fourth edition. An historical atlas.
E-bookThe Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust by Guy Miron
Call Number: D805.A2 Y33 20092 volumes
Primary Sources
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The Third Reich Sourcebook by Sander L. Gilman; Anson Rabinbach
Call Number: DD256.5 .T5245 2013A comprehensive collection of newly translated documents drawn from wide-ranging primary sources.Landmark Speeches of National Socialism by Randall L. Bytwerk
Call Number: DD253 .L298 2008Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich by Steve Hochstadt
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 by Jeremy Noakes; Geoffrey PridhamCall Number: DD256.5 .N59 1975Documents with analysis including the Nuremberg Laws which legalized persecution of the Jews.
- Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression by United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality.Call 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 by Jurgen StroopCall 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 Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Call Number: D804.3 .G648 1996Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
Call Number: D810.W7 L69 2013Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
Call Number: D804.3 .B77 1998The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel
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 Robert H. Abzug
Call Number: D804.19 .A25 1999The Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick
Call Number: D804.45.U55 N68 2000Contesting Histories: German and Jewish Americans and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Michael Joseph Schuldiner
Call Number: D804.348 .S38 2011Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper by Laurel Leff
Call Number: D804.7.P73 L44 2005Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust by Robert N. Rosen
Call Number: D804.3 .R65717 2006- Why Didn't the Press Shout? American & International Journalism During the Holocaust by Robert SchapiroCall Number: D804.19 .W49 2003
Other Selected Books
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- Heimat, Nation, Fatherland: The German Sense of Belonging by Jost HermandCall Number: DD76 .H396 1996
The Coming of the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to Genocide by Peter Kenez
Call Number: D804.3 .K46 2013The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
Call Number: DD256.5 .S48 1960The definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II.Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately
Call Number: DD256.5 .G45 2001The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
Call Number: JC481 .R39213 1970Daily Life During the Holocaust by Eve Nussbaum Soumerai; Carol D. Schulz
Call Number: D804.195 .S68 2009Growing up Female in Nazi Germany by Dagmar Reese
Call Number: HQ1210 .R4713 2006Children During the Holocaust by Patricia Heberer
Call Number: D804.48 .H43 2011Out of Chaos: Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust by Elaine Saphier Fox
Available as an e-bookThe Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939: A Documentary History by Christian Goeschel; Nikolaus Wachsmann
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 Eugen Kogon
Call Number: D805.G3 K624513 2006Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Publication Date: DD247.E5 A7 2006"Getting History Right": East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War by Mark A. Wolfgram
Call Number: D804.45.G47 W65 2010National Responses to the Holocaust: National Identity and Public Memory by Jennifer Taylor
Call Number: D804.348 .N38 2014The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943 by Inge Scholl
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 Jan Karski
Call Number: D802 .P6K3Memoir of a Polish diplomat who joined the Polish Underground during World War II.