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22 - Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich

from Part III - The Modern Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

By
Steven T. Katz
Edited by
Steven Katz
Steven Katz
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Summary

The Weimar Republic, established in Germany at the end of World War I, was not a success and led to the rise of radical politics and the birth of the Nazi party. The racial antisemitism of Nazi ideology is discussed, as is Hitler’s control of Germany and his quest for a “Final Solution” to the so-called Jewish problem, leading to the creation of ghettos, Einsatzgruppen (killing squads), concentration camps, and the killing centers of the Holocaust.

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Weimar RepublicThird ReichFinal SolutionEinsatzgruppenghettos
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The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 412 - 429
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Cesarani, D., Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933–1949 (New York, 2016). The most recent, complete study of the Holocaust using newly available documentation.Google Scholar
Des Pres, T., The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (New York, 1976). A powerful depiction of life in the death camps and the origin of the notion of “excremental assault.”Google Scholar
Friedlander, S., Nazi Germany and the Jews, 2 vols. (New York, 2008). A highly influential history of the Holocaust noted for its heavy use of Jewish sources.Google Scholar
Hilberg, R., The Destruction of the European Jews (New York, 1985), student one-volume edition. The most influential of all histories of the Holocaust. Draws mainly on German documents and answers the question, How did it happen?Google Scholar
Katz, S. T., The Holocaust and New World Slavery, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 2019). Volume 2 has detailed discussions of the Nazi treatment of Jewish women and children including their abuse in the ghettos and death camps.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kershaw, I., Hitler: A Biography, 2 vols. (New York, 2000). The most thorough and well-constructed biography of Hitler in English.Google Scholar
Lagnado, L. M., and Dekel, S. C., Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz (New York, 1991). Mengele’s special interest in experimenting on twins is explained and documented in this study.Google Scholar
Longerich, P., Heinrich Himmler (Oxford, 2012). The main study of the man who directed the day-to-day murder of European Jewry. Thoroughly researched.Google Scholar
Niewyk, D. L., The Jews in Weimar Germany, 2nd ed. (New Brunswick, NJ, 2001). The standard study of antisemitism in the Weimar Republic.Google Scholar
Posner, G. L., and Ware, J., Mengele: The Complete Story (New York, 1986). Tells the entire story of this arch criminal in a readable and reliable way.Google Scholar
Schleunes, K. A., The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy toward German Jews, 1933–1939, 2nd ed. (Champagne, IL, 1990). A classic discussion of the turns and twists that Nazi antisemitism took from 1933 to the carrying out of the Final Solution.Google Scholar
Weindling, P., Health, Race and German Politics between Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945 (New York, 1989). A reliable history of the criminal character of Nazi medical experiments.Google Scholar

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