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In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of
diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party's
chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet
territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining Rosenberg's diary notes
with additional key documents and in-depth analysis, this book
shows Rosenberg's crucial role in the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish
policy. In the second half of 1941 the territory administered by
Rosenberg became the region where the mass murder of Jewish men,
women, and children first became a systematic pattern. Indeed,
months before the emergence of German death camps in Poland, Nazi
leaders perceived the occupied Soviet Union as the area where the
"final solution of the Jewish question" could be executed on a
European scale. Covering almost the entire duration of the Third
Reich, these previously inaccessible sources throw new light on the
thoughts and actions of the leading men around Hitler during
critical junctures that led to war, genocide, and Nazi Germany's
final defeat.
In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of
diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party's
chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet
territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining Rosenberg's diary notes
with additional key documents and in-depth analysis, this book
shows Rosenberg's crucial role in the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish
policy. In the second half of 1941 the territory administered by
Rosenberg became the region where the mass murder of Jewish men,
women, and children first became a systematic pattern. Indeed,
months before the emergence of German death camps in Poland, Nazi
leaders perceived the occupied Soviet Union as the area where the
"final solution of the Jewish question" could be executed on a
European scale. Covering almost the entire duration of the Third
Reich, these previously inaccessible sources throw new light on the
thoughts and actions of the leading men around Hitler during
critical junctures that led to war, genocide, and Nazi Germany's
final defeat.
Much has been written about Nazi and anti-Jewish policies, about
atrocities of the Wehrmacht, and about the life of the Jews during
the Third Reich. However, relatively little is known about the
behaviour of non-Jewish Germans. This book, published to wide
acclaim in its original edition, shows how many ordinary Germans
became involved in what they saw as a legally sanctioned process of
ridding Germany and Europe of their Jews. Bajohr's study offers a
major contribution to our understanding of this process in that it
focuses on one of its most important aspects, namely the gradual
exclusion of Jews from economic life in Hamburg, one of the largest
centres of Jewish life in Europe and one in which many of them had
been part of the Hanseatic patriciate before 1933. The sad
conclusion of this study is that it was not necessarily
antisemitism that motivated ordinary burghers, but unrestrained
greed that led them to betray their former co-citizens.
This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the
mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of
political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership,
the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All
European societies experienced developments that led to the social
exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent's Jews. This
volume therefore questions Raul Hilbergs category of the
'bystander'. In societies where the political order expects
citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the
population, there cannot be any completely uninvolved bystanders.
Instead, this book examines the multifarious forms of social action
and behaviour connected with the Holocaust. It focuses on
institutions and persons, helpers, co-perpetrators, facilitators
and spectators, beneficiaries and profiteers, as well as Jewish
victims and Jewish organisations trying to cope with the dynamics
of exclusion and persecution.
Much has been written about Nazi anti-Jewish policies, about
atrocities of the Wehrmacht, and about the life of the Jews during
the Third Reich. However, relatively little is known about the
behavior of non-Jewish Germans. This book, published to wide
acclaim in its original edition, shows how many "ordinary Germans"
became involved in what they saw as a legally sanctioned process of
ridding Germany and Europe of their Jews. Bajohr's study offers a
major contribution to our understanding of this process in that it
focusses on one of its most important aspects, namely the gradual
exclusion of Jews from economic life in Hamburg, one of the largest
centers of Jewish life in Europe and one in which many of them had
been part of the Hanseatic patriciate before 1933. The sad
conclusion of this study is that it was not necessarily
antisemitism that motivated "ordinary burghers" but unrestrained
greed that led them to betray their former co-citizens. Frank
Bajohr is a historian at the Forschungsstelle fur Zeitgeschichte in
Hamburg and lecturer at the Department of History at the University
of Hamburg. At present he is a Research Fellow at the International
Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem."
This book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the
mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of
political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership,
the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic. All
European societies experienced developments that led to the social
exclusion, persecution and murder of the continent's Jews. This
volume therefore questions Raul Hilbergs category of the
'bystander'. In societies where the political order expects
citizens to endorse the exclusion of particular groups in the
population, there cannot be any completely uninvolved bystanders.
Instead, this book examines the multifarious forms of social action
and behaviour connected with the Holocaust. It focuses on
institutions and persons, helpers, co-perpetrators, facilitators
and spectators, beneficiaries and profiteers, as well as Jewish
victims and Jewish organisations trying to cope with the dynamics
of exclusion and persecution.
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