The Holocaust: A Reader
Simone Gigliotti
Language: English
Pages: 486
ISBN: 1405114002
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.
- Interdisciplinary content encourages students to engage with philosophical, political, cultural and literary debate as well as historiographical issues.
- Integrates oral histories and testimonies from both victims and perpetrators, including Jewish council leaders, victims of ghettos and camps, SS officials and German soldiers.
- Subsections can be used as the basis for oral or written exercises.
- Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.
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The popes. Thus, for example, in 1515 the archbishop of Seville, a former grand inquisitor, barred second generation descendants of ‘‘heretics’’ from holding any ecclesiastical office or benefice in the cathedral of that city. This statute was approved by the Pope, and subsequently extended to include the grandchildren and later the great-grandchildren of heretics. In 1530, the bishop of Cordova adopted a similar set of rules but went further, banning even the admission of New Christian.
Repressed sexual dimension to Hitler’s Judeophobia also seems striking: ‘‘With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting maiden whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people. With every means he tries to destroy the racial foundations of the people he has set out to subjugate.’’22 Hitler drew a direct parallel between this highly personal racist fantasy, drawn from the back streets of imperial Vienna, and the postwar occupation.
Forced to live in certain places. Unterstaatssekreta¨r Wo¨rmann of the Foreign Office replied that the nationals involved were Jews (dass es sich um Juden handele) and that Jews of Soviet nationality were receiving the same treatment as Jews of other nationalities.60 By the end of 1941 almost all Jews in the incorporated territories and the Generalgouvernement were living in the ghettos. Their incarceration was accompanied by changes in German control machinery and enlargements of the Jewish.
Harnessing the productive capacities of the conquered territories to the war effort.35 There were other problems as well. No trains were available until mid-February.36 And Himmler, worried about a sufficient stock of German blood to repopulate the incorporated territories, insisted that cases of contested ethnic German status and Poles capable of Germanization not be deported without screening; hence only Jews and recent Polish emigrants but not longtime Polish residents were to be deported.37.
Biuletyn Glownej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich W Polsce (hereafter cited as Biuletyn), XI, pp. 11F–14F, and Hans Frank, Diensttagebuch des deutschen Generalgouverneurs in Polen 1939– 1945, ed. by Werner Pra¨g and Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Stuttgart, 1975), pp. 60–1 (conference of 8.11.39). 18 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (hereafter cited as USHMM), RG 15.005m, 2 / 104 / 15 (Mu¨ller, RSHA, to EG VI in Posen, 8.11.39). 19 IMT, vol. 30, p. 95 (2278-PS). 20 FGM, p. 46 (Frank speech in.