Introduction Part I. The Context of Christian Antisemitism 1. Excerpts from the New Testament 2. Jewish chronicle of murders in Rhine cities in 1096 during the First Crusade 3. Excerpts from Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543 4. Papal bull about Jews, Cum nimis absurdum by Pope Paul IV, 14 July 1555 5. Excerpts from article Jewish Morality in Vatican newspaper, 10 January 1893 Part II. The Creation of Monsters in Germany: Jews and Others 6. Bavarian petition opposing equality for Jews, 10 January 1850 7. Excerpt from Heinrich von Treitschke, Our Views, 1879 8. Excerpt from Permission for the Extermination of Life Unworthy of Life, 1920 9. Excerpts from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 10. Court judgment in the murder of a Polish laborer by SA men on 10 August 1932 Part III. The Nazi Attack on Jews and Other Undesirables in the Third Reich, 19331938 11. Bavarian state report about the murder of a Jewish businessman, 20 March 1933 12. Memoir by Dr Paula Tobias about boycott of 1 April 1933 13. Minutes of a meeting about Jewish attacks against the race, 5 June 1934 14. Report of underground Social Democratic Party on persecution of German Jews, August 1935 15. Nuremberg Law against intermarriage between Jews and German citizens, 15 September 1935 16. Form for Jehovahs Witnesses to renounce their religious beliefs, 1936 17. Speech by Heinrich Himmler to SS leaders on homosexuality, 18 February 1937 18. Excerpts from the Nazi Party training manual for Hitler Youth, About the German People and its Living Space: Handbook for Training the Hitler Youth, 1938 19. Childrens story from Ernst Hiemer, The Poisonous Mushroom, 1938 20. Decree by Heinrich Himmler on Combatting the Gypsy Plague, 8 December 1938 Part IV. The Physical Assault on Jews in Germany, 1938-1939 21. Memoir by Walter Grab about persecution of Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss of March 1938 22. Letter urging that Jews be fired from Austrian industry, 29 June 1938 23. Letter resisting the confiscation of a Jewish business, 14 July 1938 24. Letter confirming possession of Chinese visa, 23 September 1938 25. British memorandum on Evian conference, 17 October 1938 26. Report of Darmstadt SA on Kristallnacht, 11 November 1938 27. Transcript of Nazi Party meeting led by Field Marshall Hermann Goring after Kristallnacht, 12 November 1938 28. Letter about finding work in British households for Czech Jewish refugees, 17 November 1938 29. Gestapo report from Bielefeld about Kristallnacht destruction, 26 November 1938 30. Instruction from Foreign Office on eliminating Jews from German life, 25 January 1939 31. Instruction from US Secretary of State on preventing Jewish refugees from entering Shanghai, 18 February 1939 Part V. The Perfection of Genocide as National Policy, 1939-1943 32. Letter from Reinhard Heydrich planning theconcentration of Polish Jews, 21 September 1939 33. War diary of Lt. Col. Helmuth Groscurth about massacres of Polish civilians on 78 October 1939 34. Announcement that Jews in the Lodz region must wear yellow armband, 14 November 1939 35. Postwar testimony about the first successful gassing of intellectually disabled people on 4 January 1940 36. Minutes of conference about deportation of Poles, Jews and Roma, 30 January 1940 37. Report of meeting of German mayors concerning murder of disabled people, 3 April 1940 38. Memorandum from US State Department on delaying immigration, 26 June 1940 39. Report of the murder of Jews by Lithuanians in Vilna by Grigorij Schur, June 1941 40. Table of money saved by murdering disabled people, 1941 41. Report of Einsatzgruppen murders in Soviet Union, 2 October 1941 42. German Army orders on the Conduct of the Troops in the Eastern Territories, 10 October 1941 43. Plan for solution of the Jewish question by mass gassing, 25 October 1941 44. Foreign Office memorandum on murder of Jews in Yugoslavia, 25 October 1941 45. German Army report on shootings of Jews and Roma in Yugoslavia, 2730 October 1941 46. Report on police battalion murder of Jews in Belorussia, 30 October 1941 47. Article by Josef Goebbels on Jews in Das Reich, 16 November 1941 48. Minutes of the Wannsee Conference about the final solution, 20 January 1942 49. Report on use of trucks to kill Jews with exhaust gas in Soviet Union, 16 May 1942 50. Proposal that several million Jews be sterilized for slave labor, 23 June 1942 51. Letter from Gestapo ordering deportation of Jews in Schwerin, 6 July 1942 52. Report by Gestapo on French-German cooperation on deportation of Jews, 8 July 1942 53. Protest of the Bishop of Montauban against deportations in France, 26 August 1942 54. Report by Himmler to Hitler on mass murder of partisans in Soviet Union, 29 December 1942 55. Gestapo report on deportation of Jews from France, 6 March 1943 56. Protest by Bulgarian legislators against deportation of Jews, 17 March 1943 57. Order by Himmler to destroy Ukraine, 7 September 1943 58. Speech by Himmler to SS-Gruppenfuhrer in Posen, 4 October 1943 59. Postwar testimony about exhumation and cremation of corpses in 194344 60. Report by Odilo Globocnik on how death camps were financed, December 1943 Part VI. 'Arbeit Macht Frei': Work and Death in Concentration Camps and Ghettos 61. Normal murders at Buchenwald in 1941 62. Speech by Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of Lodz Jewish Council, 17 January 1942 63. Call for resistance in the Vilna Ghetto by Abba Kovner, 31 December 1941 64. Letter about feeding Soviet POWs working for German industry, 21 February 1942 65. Order to Warsaw Jewish Council to organize deportation to the East, 22 July 1942 66. Diary of Oskar Singer in Lodz Ghetto, 27 July 1942 67. Diary of Emanuel Ringelblum in Warsaw Ghetto, 14 December 1942 68. Report of SS Concentration Camp Office on mortality of prisoners, 28 December 1942 69. SS report on revolt in Warsaw Ghetto, 13 May 1943 70. Diary of Hanna Levy-Hass in Bergen-Belsen, March 1945 71. Mauthausen death list, 19 March 1945 72. Report of SS doctor on health conditions in Neuengamme, 29 March 1945 Part VII. Assembly Lines of Death: Extermination Camps 73. Postwar deposition about the use of gas chambers in Belzec in August 1942 74. Memoir by Filip Muller on use of gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1942 75. Memoir by Irene Schwarz of Gestapo office work at Birkenau 76. Memoir by Shalom Kohn of the revolt in Treblinka on 2 August 1943 77. Postwar statement by Arnest Tauber about slave labor at Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 78. Report on Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 by escaped prisoners Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, April 1944 79. Letter by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden about bombing Auschwitz, 7 July 1944 80. Memoir by Judith Isaacson on selection of women in Auschwitz, July 1944 81. List of transports to Birkenau gas chambers during October 1944 Part VIII. The Aftermath 82. London Agreement among Allies about nature of war crimes trial, 8 August 1945 83. Summary of evidence from defense witnesses at Nuremberg Trial, August 1946 84. West German law to compensate victims of persecution, 29 June 1956 85. Statement of Lutherans about Christians and Jews, July 1983 86. Speech by Elie Wiesel about President Ronald Reagans planned visit to Bitburg cemetery, 19 April 1985 87. Resolution of the East German Parliament on the Holocaust, 12 April 1990 Part IX. The Holocaust in Contemporary Life 88. Website about memorial Stolpersteine 89. Recommendation of Norwegian government to compensate Jews, 26 June 1998 90. Article In Defense of Hitler in Egyptian government newspaper, 27 May 2001 91. International Tribunal judgement against Radislav Krsti_ for Srebrenica massacre, 2 August 2001 92. Joint resolution of Maine legislature on Holocaust remembrance, 13 March 2002 93. Speech by Bjorn Hocke in Dresden, organized by the Youth Organization of the Alternative fur Deutschland, 17 January 2017 Conclusion Sources Select Further Reading Index
