The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust

Jürgen Matthäus, Frank Bajohr (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

528 Seiten

2017
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9780810895447 (ISBN)

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Based on previously inaccessible diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, this important book throws 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.

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.

Jürgen Matthäus is director of the Applied Research Division at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Frank Bajohr is director of the Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich.

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Guide

Part I: Introduction
Part II: Alfred Rosenberg’s Diary 1934-1944
Part III: Related Documents
Part IV: A “Final Solution” in “the East:” Rosenberg and the “Jewish Question”
Ideology Applied: Rosenberg’s Antisemitism and the Nazi SystemNew Opportunities: “Operation Barbarossa” and the Onset of GenocideA European Project: Rosenberg and the HolocaustFrom Selective Memory to Lost Record: The Post-war Fate of Rosenberg‘s Diary
List of Related Documents
Bibliography
About the Editors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	767 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780810895447 / 9780810895447
Zustand	Neuware