The Germans and the Holocaust

Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-952-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did “ordinary” Germans know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know it, and how did they respond collectively and as individuals? This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence. Ranging from the roots of popular anti-Semitism to the complex motivations of Germans who hid Jews, these studies illuminate some of the most difficult questions in Holocaust historiography, supplemented with an array of fascinating primary source materials.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schrafstetter, Susanna

Steinweis, Alan E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures

Introduction: The German People and the Holocaust

Alan E. Steinweis and Susanna Schrafstetter

Chapter 1. Antisemitism in Germany, 1890-1933: How Popular Was It?

Richard S. Levy

Chapter 2. German Responses to the Persecution of the Jews as Reflected in Three Collections of Secret Reports

Frank Bajohr

Chapter 3. Indifference? Participation and Protest as Individual Responses to the Persecution of the Jews as Revealed in Berlin Police Logs and Trial Records, 1933-45

Wolf Gruner

Chapter 4. Babi Yar, but not Auschwitz: What Did Germans Know about the Final Solution?

Peter Fritzsche

Chapter 5. Submergence into Illegality: Hidden Jews in Munich, 1941-1945

Susanna Schrafstetter

Chapter 6.Where Did All “Our” Jews Go? Germans and Jews in Post-Nazi Germany

Atina Grossmann

Appendixes

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Proclamation of the Alliance against the Arrogance of Jewry, 1912

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Reports from American Diplomat George S. Messersmith to the State Department (Excerpts), 1933

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Police Precinct Report, Berlin, 1938

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Social Democratic Party (SoPaDe) Report on the November 1938 Pogrom (Excerpts), 1938

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Report from the Mayor of Amt Borgentreich to the Gestapo in Bielefeld (Excerpt), 1938

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SD Reports on German Popular Opinion during World War II (Excerpts), 1943-44

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Berlin Memories of Marcella Herrmann (Excerpt), Early 1940s

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Statement from Dr. Sophie Mayer (Excerpts), 1946

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Moses Moskowitz, “The Germans and the Jews: Postwar Report” (Excerpts), 1946

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schrafstetter, Susanna
Susanna Schrafstetter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont. She is the author of two books about the history of nuclear non-proliferation, and has recently published Flucht und Versteck, a book about fugitive Jews in Munich and Bavaria during World War Two.

Steinweis, Alan E
Alan E. Steinweis is the Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies and director of the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. His books include Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany and Kristallnacht 1938.

Alan E. Steinweis is the Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies and director of the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. His books include Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany and Kristallnacht 1938.