The Nazi Germany Sourcebook: An Anthology of Texts
Roderick Stackelberg
Language: English
Pages: 496
ISBN: 0415222141
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Nazi Germany Sourcebook is an exciting new collection of documents on the origins, rise, course and consequences of National Socialism, the Third Reich, the Second World War, and the Holocaust.
Packed full of both official and private papers from the perspectives of perpetrators and victims, these sources offer a revealing insight into why Nazism came into being, its extraordinary popularity in the 1930s, how it affected the lives of people, and what it means to us today.
This carefully edited series of 148 documents, drawn from 1850 to 2000, covers the pre-history and aftermath of Nazism:
* the ideological roots of Nazism, and the First World War
* the Weimar Republic
* the consolidation of Nazi power
* Hitler's motives, aims and preparation for war
* the Second World War
* the Holocaust
* the Cold War and recent historical debates.
The Nazi Germany Sourcebook focuses on key areas of study, helping students to understand and critically evaluate this extraordinary historical episode:
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Heidegger, History and the Holocaust (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)
Active resistance to Nazism both within and outside the Third Reich. The need to resist fascism even provided the ideological justification for the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961. While it was officially described as a protective wall against fascism, its true purpose was to prevent the migration of East Germans to the more prosperous and democratic West. The different social and political values in East and West inevitably determined their respective interpretations of Nazism. While East.
Common fight against the Communist International, 25 November 1936 Law on the Hitler Youth, 1 December 1936 National political course for the armed forces, 15–23 January 1937 Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, “The Church in Germany,” 14 March 1937 The Hossbach Memorandum, 5 November 1937 Decree concerning the leadership of the armed forces, 4 February 1938 Notes of Chief of the Army General Staff Ludwig Beck on the risks of war with Czechoslovakia, 16 July 1938 Orders issued to police by Gestapo.
Of staffs, whatever their composition, must not exceed four thousand … CHAPTER III. RECRUITING AND MILITARY TRAINING Article 173: Universal compulsory military service shall be abolished in Germany. The German Army may only be constituted and recruited by means of voluntary enlistment. Article 174: The period of enlistment for non-commissioned officers and privates must be twelve consecutive years … Article 175: The officers who are retained in the Army must undertake the obligation to serve in.
Biology to the “idealism” of the latter than to the “materialism” of the former. In Hitler’s Germany the eugenic movement would gain full governmental and institutional support. Combined with anti-Semitism, the ideology of racial hygiene eventually led to the Holocaust. 2.9a Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, Permitting the Destruction of Unworthy Life, 1920 KARL BINDING, “LEGAL EXPLANATION” … Are there human lives which have so completely lost the attribute of legal status that their continuation.
Payment, every promise became equal to naught. Soon a quarter of Germany was in his hands, and perversely, the masses, who in Germany always become intoxicated at a success that they can see with their eyes, cheered him as a genius. The unemployed stood around by the thousands and shook their fists at the profiteers and foreigners in their luxurious cars who bought whole rows of streets like a box of matches; everyone who could read and write traded, speculated, and profited and had a secret.