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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797953803321

Titolo

The Germans and the Holocaust : popular responses to the persecution and murder of the Jews / / edited by Susanna Schrafstetter and Alan E. Steinweis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78238-953-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

Classificazione

NQ 2360

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

Jews - Persecutions - Germany - History

Antisemitism - Germany - History - 19th century

Antisemitism - Germany - History - 20th century

Public opinion - Germany

Germany Jews Public opinion Congresses

Germany Ethnic relations History Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The contributions to this volume are based on lectures delivered at a symposium on The German People and the Persecution of the Jews, which took place at the University of Vermont on April 22, 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Figures; Introduction - The German People and the Holocaust; Chapter 1 - Anti-Semitism in Germany, 1890-1933: How Popular Was It?; Chapter 2 - German Responses to the Persecution of the Jews as Reflected in Three Collections of Secret Reports; 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; Chapter 4 - Babi Yar, but Not Auschwitz: What Did Germans Know about the Final Solution?

Chapter 5 - Submergence into Illegality: Hidden Jews in Munich, 1941-45Chapter 6 - Where Did All ""Our"" Jews Go? Germans and Jews in Post-Nazi Germany; Appendix A - Proclamation of the Alliance against the Arrogance of Jewry 1912; Appendix B - Reports from American Diplomat George S. Messersmith to the State Department (Excerpts)



1933; Appendix C - Police Precinct Report, Berlin 1938; Appendix D - Social Democratic Party (SoPaDe) Report on the November 1938 Pogrom (Excerpts) 1938; Appendix E - Report from the Mayor of Amt Borgentreich to the Gestapo in Bielefeld (Excerpt) 1938

Appendix F - SD Reports on German Popular Opinion during World War II (Excerpts) 1943-44Appendix G - Statement by Benno Schülein (Excerpt) 1946; Appendix H - Statement by Dr Sophie Mayer (Excerpts) 1946; Appendix I - Moses Moskowitz, ""The Germans and the Jews: Postwar Report"" (Excerpts) 1946; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.