The Policies of Genocide (RLE Nazi Germany Holocaust) by Gerhard Hirschfeld

Author:Gerhard Hirschfeld [Hirschfeld, Gerhard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138801424
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

This chapter is based on the German version of my inaugural lecture at the University of Frankfurt a.M. on 25 January 1984.

1 John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (eds), Historical Essays and Studies by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (London, 1907), p. 504.

2 See Klaus Hildebrand, Das Dritte Reich (Munich/Vienna, 1979), p. 88.

3 Tim Mason, ‘Intention and Explanation: A Current Controversy about the Interpretation of National Socialism’, in Gerhard Hirschfeld and Lothar Kettenacker (eds), The ‘Führer State’: Myth and Reality (Stuttgart, 1981), pp. 23–42. For the most recent historiographical survey as regards Hitler and the Holocaust see Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship (London, 1985), pp. 82–105. As to Jäckel’s position, see his ch. ‘Hitler orders the Holocaust’ in Hitler in History (Hanover and London, 1984), pp. 44–65.

4 Martin Broszat, ‘Hitler und die Genesis der “Endlösung”. Aus Anlaß der Thesen von David Irving’, Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte 25 (1977), pp. 739–75. As to Hans Mommsen’s interpretation, see his contribution to this volume (Chapter 5). An intermediate position is taken by Ian Kershaw who is inclined towards a ‘functionalist’ approach but states categorically: ‘Without Hitler as head of the German State between 1933 and 1945, and without his fanaticism on the “Jewish Question” as impulse and sanction, touchstone and legitimation, of escalating discrimination and persecution, it seems hardly conceivable that the “Final Solution” would have occurred’ (Kershaw, Nazi Dictatorship, as in n. 3, p. 90).

5 See Jochen von Lang, Das Eichmann-Protokoll (Berlin, 1982).

6 Hermann Graml, ‘Zur Genesis der “Endlösung”’, paper given at a conference of the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt in Freiberg i. Br. in March 1984, unpublished ms.

7 Eberhard Jäckel, Hitlers World View. A Blueprint for Power (Cambridge and London, 1981) pp. 58–9.

8 See Paul Kluke, ‘Der Fall Potempa. Eine Dokumentation’, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 5 (1957), pp. 2279–97.

9 Von Lang, Eichmann-Protokoll (as in n. 5), p. 137.

10 In this context, the Kristallnacht pogrom, coming only a few months after the Munich conference, had a shattering effect. See Andrew Sharf, The British Press and Jews under Nazi Rule (London, 1964), pp. 171 ff., also A. J. Sherman, Island Refuge (London, 1973), pp. 170 ff.

11 As to the pressure from below for action see Karl A. Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz. Nazi Policy towards German Jews, 1933–1939 (Chicago/London, 1970), pp. 71 ff.; also Helmut Genschel, Die Verdrängung der Juden aus der Wirtschaft im Dritten Reich (Göttingen, 1966).

12 Jeremy Noakes and Geoffrey Pridham (eds), Documents on Nazism, 1919–1945 (London, 1974), p. 38.

13 Joseph Walk (ed.), Das Sonderrecht für die Juden im NS-Staat (Heidelberg/Karlsruhe, 1981), p. 3 and p. 406.

14 ibid., decree nos. 287 (p.360), 305, 306 (p. 363), 310 (p. 364), 326 (p. 368), 368 (p. 376), 377 (p. 378).

15 ibid., decree no. 493 (p. 493).

16 Max Domarus (ed.), Hitler. Reden und Proklamationen, 1932–1945, vol. II, Part I (Munich, 1965), p. 1058.

17 See ‘Migration Statistics’, Appendix I in Sherman, Island Refuge (as in n. 10), pp. 269–272. The SS were particularly interested in facilitating emigration. On their initiative, on 24 January 1939 Göring set up a

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