The Holocaust a reader

List of Maps. Acknowledgments. Chronology. Glossary. Introduction: Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang. Part I Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism. Introduction. 1 Anti-Semites: Bernard Lewis. 2 From Weimar to Hitler: Robert S. Wistrich. 3 Nation and Race: Adolf Hitler. 4 Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935. Part II A Racial Europe: Nazi Population and Resettlement Policy. Introduction. 5 The Setting: Henry Friedlander. 6 Ghetto Formation: Raul Hilberg. 7 From “Ethnic Cleansing” to Genocide to the “Final Solution”: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939–1941: Christopher R. Browning. 8 Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East: Heinrich Himmler. Part III War and the Turn to Genocide. Introduction. 9 The “Commissar Decree,” June 6, 1941. 10 Affidavit of SS Grueppenfuehrer Otto Ohlendorf. 11 Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation: Jürgen Förster. 12 From Mass Murder to the “Final Solution:” The Shooting of Jewish Civilians during the first months of the Eastern Campaign within the context of the Nazi Jewish Genocide: Peter Longerich. 13 Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II: Omer Bartov. Part IV Whose "Final Solution"? Revisted Intentionalism and Functionalism. Introduction. 14 Hitler’s Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939 : Adolf Hitler. 15 Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942. 16Intentions and the “Final Solution:” Berel Lang. 17 A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism: Martin Broszat and Saul Friedlaender. 18 Justice Jackson’s Report to the President on Atrocities and War Crimes, June 6, 1945: Robert H. Jackson. Part V Response and Testimony: At the Center of the Whirlwind. Introduction. 19 Inside the Ghetto: Emmanuel Ringelblum. 20 Notebook H: Oskar Rosenfeld. 21 The Second Winter: October 29, 1942--March 18, 1943: Herman Kruk. 22 Letters from Westerbork: Etty Hillesum. Part VI Genocide and the Holocaust. Introduction. 23 UnitedNations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948.. 24 Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept: Helen Fein. 25 Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide? Mark Levene. 26 Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the “Racial Century:” Genocides of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust: A. Dirk Moses