Series; The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ; 14. Edition; 1st ed. Physical description; xii, 335 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1991. "Brandeis University Press." Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-309) and index. English. Subjects; Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945). Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Schutzstaffel. Nazis - Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). Jews - Germany - History - (1939-1945). National socialists - Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany. Genocide - History. World War, (1939-1945). Germany - Politics and government - (1933-1945). Germany - History - (1933-1945). biography, individual. breaches of international law. atrocities. crimes against humanity. war crimes. alleged atrocities and atrocities committed against racial groups. alleged and actual atrocities committed against jews in europe. Fascism. War criminals. Final Solution (nazi terminology). Jews - Genocide. Genres; Bibliography. Biography.

The architect of genocide: Himmler and the final solution

Breitman, Richard

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

A biography of Heinrich Himmler, who devised the plans that enabled the Holocaust to take place

The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

KNOPF

At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, this book provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime. As the direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, the volume draws upon many documents declassified under this law to reveal what U.S. intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some U.S. corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. The work also reveals startling new details on the Cold War connections between the U.S. government and Hitler's former officers.

U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis

History

Wolfe, Robert

Naftali, Timothy

Goda, Norman J.W.

Americas

Cambridge University Press

Winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary HistoryAmong the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a peculiarly memorable place in the roster of Nazi war criminals: he was the man most closely associated with the creation and operation of the Final Solution, the programme of formal mass murder responsible for the deaths of six million Jews in death camps. Thus, to understand the Holocaust it is first necessary to understand Himmler, and it is this The Architect of Genocide at last permits us to do. Drawing on thousands of published and unpublished sources—ranging from the Nuremburg War Crimes trial records to papers held in the Central State Archives of the October Revolution of the Ukrainian SSR in Kiev—Breitman shows us the man himself, growing from unlikeable boyhood to be the perfect bureaucrat, seemingly the antithesis of the mad policies he espoused. At the same time, with unchallengeable authority, he presents us with the hitherto mysterious and much—debated facts about the origins of those policies, establishing among other things that before the war, Himmler had plans to murder all German Jews who would not- or could not—leave the country and that as early as 1939, Himmler was considering the use of gas chambers and crematoriums.

The Architect of Genocide : Himmler and the Final Solution

Biographies & Memoirs

GRAFTON

Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew

World

Viking/Penquin

Chronicles the efforts of German industrialist Eduard Schulte, the Allied agent who first provided evidence of Hitler's campaign of genocide against the Jews, and the contributions of the Germans who aided Schulte

Breaking the Silence

LAQUEUR, Walter

Touchstone Books

Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent and indict him for keeping America's gates closed to Jewish refugees and failing to bomb Auschwitz's gas chambers.
 In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician-compassionate but also pragmatic-struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions. For most of his presidency Roosevelt indeed did little to aid the imperiled Jews of Europe. He put domestic policy priorities ahead of helping Jews and deferred to others' fears of an anti-Semitic backlash. Yet he also acted decisively at times to rescue Jews, often withstanding contrary pressures from his advisers and the American public. Even Jewish citizens who petitioned the president could not agree on how best to aid their co-religionists abroad.
 Though his actions may seem inadequate in retrospect, the authors bring to light a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure. His moral position was tempered by the political realities of depression and war, a conflict all too familiar to American politicians in the twenty-first century.

FDR and the Jews

Lichtman, Allan J.

Belknap Press

Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent and indict him for keeping America's gates closed to Jewish refugees and failing to bomb Auschwitz's gas chambers.
In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician-compassionate but also pragmatic-struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions. For most of his presidency Roosevelt indeed did little to aid the imperiled Jews of Europe. He put domestic policy priorities ahead of helping Jews and deferred to others' fears of an anti-Semitic backlash. Yet he also acted decisively at times to rescue Jews, often withstanding contrary pressures from his advisers and the American public. Even Jewish citizens who petitioned the president could not agree on how best to aid their co-religionists abroad.
Though his actions may seem inadequate in retrospect, the authors bring to light a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure. His moral position was tempered by the political realities of depression and war, a conflict all too familiar to American politicians in the twenty-first century.

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

How Germany's Social Democratic Party continued to advocate gradual change and political accommodation with nonsocialist forces following World War I.

German Socialism and Weimar Democracy

Europe

The University of North Carolina Press

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