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The persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

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2019-
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Götz, Aly
Gruner, Wolf
Heim, Susanne
Hollmann, Michael
Steinbacher, Sybille
Walther-von Jena, Simone
Wirsching, Andreas
Bundesarchiv Koblenz
Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Yad Vashem
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Berlin ; Boston
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De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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This landmark collection of primary sources provides unique first-hand insights into the persecution and murder of the Jews of Europe under Nazi rule. The documents, all translated from the language of the original source, range from the police orders and administrative decrees issued by the Nazi apparatus across Germany and occupied Europe to the diaries and letters of Jewish men, women, and children facing discrimination, impoverishment, violent assaults, incarceration, deportation, and death. The observations and reactions of bystanders not directly involved in the crimes – some shocked, some indifferent, some approving - also come across vividly. Substantial introductions, scholarly footnotes, and an extensive thematic index help guide the reader through the rich documentary material and add to the value of the series as a resource for teaching and learning about the Second World War and the Holocaust. The series is edited on behalf of the German Federal Archives, the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), the Chair of Modern History at the University of Freiburg and in collaboration with Yad Vashem.
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    Reihenband
    5
    Western and Northern Europe 1940–June 1942
    (2021) Happe, Katja; Mayer, Michael; Peers, Maja
    In April-May 1940 the German Wehrmacht invaded Northern and Western Europe. The subsequent occupation of Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France brought the Jewish population of these countries – both established residents and refugees – under German control. From autumn 1941 in Luxembourg and from spring/summer 1942 in Belgium, the Netherlands and occupied France, Jews were required to wear the ‘Jewish star’ and many were subjected to forced labour. By mid-1942, deportations from Luxembourg and France to the ghettos and extermination camps in occupied Eastern Europe had already begun, while in the other occupied countries they were imminent. In April 1942 Alfred Oppenheimer, the Jewish elder in Luxembourg, wrote: ‘A dreadful fate hangs over our community again. The worst that can happen has now happened and the Poland transport is a certainty.’ This volume covers Norway and Western Europe during the period from the German invasion to mid 1942 (developments in Denmark for this period are documented in vol. 12) and records how Jews in these parts of Europe were excluded from society and stripped of their rights, livelihoods, and property. Letters and diary entries by the persecuted Jews detail life under German occupation and the attempts by many Jews to emigrate. The sources show how Jewish organizations sought to alleviate the impact of persecution, and how the German occupiers and local collaborators targeted Jews with increasingly stringent measures and clamped down on any form of resistance.
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    Reihenband
    3
    German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, September 1939 - September 1941
    (2020) Löw, Andrea
    Volume 3 documents the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich after the start of the Second World War and in the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia", created in March 1939, until September 1941. It reveals the increasing isolation of the German and Czechoslovak Jews but also the perpetrators' plans up to the eve of systematic deportations.