"Essential. No library, whether public or academic, should be without this remarkable resource."
No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the and#147;German Renaissanceand#8221; promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horrorand#151;World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With The Third Reich Sourcebook, editors Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman present a comprehensive collection of newly translated documents drawn from wide-ranging primary sources, documenting both the official and unofficial cultures of National Socialist Germany from its inception to its defeat and collapse in 1945. Framed with introductions and annotations by the editors, the documents presented here include official government and party pronouncements, texts produced within Nazi structures, such as the official Jewish Cultural League, as well as documents detailing the impact of the horrors of National Socialism on those who fell prey to the regime, especially Jews and the handicapped. With thirty chapters on ideology, politics, law, society, cultural policy, the fine arts, high and popular culture, science and medicine, sexuality, education, and other topics, The Third Reich Sourcebook is the ultimate collection of primary sources on Nazi Germany.
"An absolutely magnificent achievement. After the mountain of books that have been published on Nazism, it can seem implausible that there is still more to learn. This brilliantly conceived collection of primary documents shows that there is indeed more - much more. No prior anthology or analysis does nearly so much to help readers enter the emotional landscape of the Third Reich, so as to understand better the at once savage and subtle ideological work that made the regime so terrifyingly successful." --Dagmar Herzog, Graduate Center, City University of New York
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One. The Beginnings of National Socialism
1. The Munich Years and the Legacy of the War
1. Guidelines of the German Workersand#8217; Party (1919)
2. Adolf Hitler, Letter to Adolf Gemlich (1919)
3. Wilfred Bade, The Founding of the Party in 1920 (1933)
4. Dietrich Eckart, Jewishness in and around Us (1919)
5. The Program of the German Workersand#8217; Party: The Twenty-Five Points (1920)
6. Gottfried Feder, Manifesto for Breaking the Bondage of Interest (1919)
7. Otto Gmelin, Prohn Fights for His People (1933)
8. Heinrich Lersch, The German Soldier; In the Military Hospital (1939)
9. Hanns Johst, Schlageter (1933)
10. Hans Hinkel, One of a Hundred Thousand (1937)
11. Wilfred Bade, The Hitler Trial (1933)
12. Wilfred Bade, The SA Conquers Berlin (1933)
13. Fritz Oerter, Our Speakers in the Anti-Marxist Struggle: The Balance of an Election Year (1932)
14. Hermann Fand#252;hrbach, How I Became a National Socialist (1934)
2. Nazism in Power: 1933
15. Walter Frank, On the History of National Socialism (1939)
16. Oswald Spengler, The White World Revolution (1933)
17. Hermann Goering, Radio Address: 30 January 1933
18. Joseph Goebbels, Day of Potsdam: 22 March 1933 (1933)
19. Erich Ebermayer, My Day of Potsdam: Diary Entry (1933)
20. Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of Volk and State (1933)
21. Anonymous, The Reichstag Fire: Declaration of Martial Law? (1933)
22. Otto Wels, Speech against the Passage of the Enabling Act (1933)
23. Law to Remedy the State of Emergency of Volk and Reich (1933)
24. Law for the Restoration of Professional Civil Service (1933)
25. Adolf Hitler, Speech to Commemorate National Labor Day (1933)
26. Das Schwarze Korps, Second-Class Comrades? (1936)
27. Carl Schmitt, State, Movement, Volk: The Tripartite Division of Political Unity (1933)
28. Ernst Forsthoff, The Total State (1933)
29. Alfred Rosenberg, The Total State? (1934)
30. Carl Schmitt, The Fand#252;hrer Protects the Law: On Adolf Hitlerand#8217;s Reichstag Address of 13 July 1934 (1934)
31. Hans Frank, On the Position of the Judge before National Socialist Law and in the National Socialist State (1936)
3. The Political Religion: Fand#252;hrer Cult, Ceremonies, and Symbol
32. Albert Reich, Adolf Hitlerand#8217;s Homeland (1933)
33. Baldur von Schirach, Hitler as No One Knows Him (1933)
34. Rudolf Hess, The Oath to Adolf Hitler (1934)
35. Baldur von Schirach, To the Fand#252;hrer; Hitler (1935)
36. David Lloyd George, I Talked to Hitler (1936)
37. Anonymous, This Is a National Poison? What the Ban on Fand#252;hrer Kitsch Is Supposed to Protect Us From (1933)
38. Anonymous, City and Countryside Shine in Celebratory Splendor (1939)
39. Engelbert Huber, The Swastika (1933)
40. Franz Alfred Six, The Propaganda of the Street and the Masses (1936)
41. Franz Alfred Six, The Power of the Spoken Word (1936)
42. Erwin Schockel, Good and Bad Posters (1939)
43. Das Schwarze Korps, With German Protestant Catholic Greetings (1935)
44. Wilfred Bade, The Party Rally Day of Victory: The Victory of Faith (1933)
45. Willy Liebel, Five Years: Nuremberg, City of Party Rallies (1938)
46. Victor Klemperer, Listening to Goeringand#8217;s Speech
at the 1938 Nuremberg Rally (1938)
47. Law Concerning Holidays (1934)
48. Hannes Kremer, New Meanings for and#147;Inheritedand#8221; Customs? (1937)
49. Frank Leberecht, Call to the Fire (1934)
50. Central Cultural Office, Reich Propaganda Leadership, Honoring Fallen Heroes: NSDAP Veteransand#8217; Memorial Day Celebrations (1939)
Part Two. The National Socialist Worldview
4. Between Myth and Doctrine
51. Adolf Hitler,The Aryan (1925)
52. Adolf Hitler, Speech at the NSDAP Congress on Culture (1933)
53. Ernst Krieck, The Racial-Vand#246;lkisch-Political Conception of History (1934)
54. Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century: On the Third Edition (1930)
55. Joseph Goebbels, Communism with the Mask Off (1935)
56. Carl Schmitt, National Socialist Legal Thought (1934)
57. Hans F.{ths}K. Gand#252;nther, A Modest Racial Study of the German People (1929)
58. Susanna Pertz, The Word Nordic (1939)
59. Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Nordic Beauty: Portraits of Perfection in Life and in Art (1937)
60. Wolf Willrich, The German Face (1935)
61. Otto Hand#246;fler, Secret Cultic Societies of the Germanic Peoples (1934)
62. Harald Spehr, Were the Germans and#147;Ecstaticsand#8221;?: A Comment on Otto Hand#246;flerand#8217;s Secret Cultic Societies of the Germanic Peoples (1936)
63. Eberhard Freidank, Nordic Ecstasy (1933)
64. Alfred Band#228;umler, Hellas and Germania (1943)
5. Racial Science
65. Ludolf Haase, We Need a Reich Office of Racial Affairs (1933)
66. Walter Gross, National Socialist Racial Policy: A Speech to German Women (1934)
67. Paul Brohmer, Biological Studies and Vand#246;lkisch Education (1933)
68. Gand#252;nther Hecht, Biology and National Socialism (1937/1938)
69. Johann Fahlbusch, Colored Blood in the Rhineland (1935)
70. Reichsfand#252;hrer SS Central Office for Racial Policy, Racial Policy (1942)
6. Germanyand#8217;s Colonial Mission
71. Karl Haushofer, National Socialist Thought in the World (1933)
72. Hans Simmer, German Territory and German Volk (1934)
73. Hans Grimm, My Father, My Colonies (1934)
74. Ernst Gerhard Jacob, Colonial Policy as Cultural Mission (1938)
75. Ernst Janisch, The Biological-Historical Background of German Living Space (1943)
Part Three. Antisemitism: The Core Doctrine
7. Jews: The Visible Enemy
76. Adolf Hitler, Aryan and Jew (1925)
77. Engelbert Huber, The Anti-Semitism of the NSDAP (1933)
78. E.{ths}H. Schulz and R. Frercks, Why the Aryan Law? A Contribution to the Jewish Question (1934)
79. Reinhard Heydrich, The Visible Enemy: The Jews (1935)
80. Alfred Rosenberg, Bolshevism: The Work of an Alien Race (1935)
81. Martin Buber, An Open Letter to Gerhard Kittel (1933)
82. Gerhard Kittel, Response to Martin Buber (1934)
8. Eliminating the Jews: From the Nuremberg Laws to Kristallnacht
83. Reich Citizenship Law (1935)
84. Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (1935)
85. Wilhelm Stuckart and Hans Globke, Civil Rights and the Natural Inequality of Man (1936)
86. Carl Schmitt, German Jurisprudence and the Struggle against the Jewish Spirit (1936)
87. Hertwig Hartner-Hnizdo, Accident of History or Destiny of the Race? (1939)
88. Johann von Leers, The Criminality of Jewry (1940)
89. Das Schwarze Korps, Concentration Camps and Their Inmates (1936)
90. Peter-Heinz Seraphim, Jewry in the Eastern European Space (1938)
91. Karl Friedrich Euler, The Yiddish Language as Expression of the Jewish Mind (1942)
92. Second Decree Concerning Implementation of the Law on Changes to Family Names and First Names (1938)
93. Fritz Arlt, The Final Struggle against Jewry: A Historical Reflection on Jewish Enmity (1938)
94. Reinhard Heydrich, Instructions for Kristallnacht (1938)
95. Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsfand#252;hrer SS, Actions Against the Jews on 9, 10, and 11 November 1938 (1938)
96. Betty Scholem, Report on Kristallnacht (1939)
97. Sopade, Reactions of the Populace to Reichskristallnacht (1938)
98. Das Schwarze Korps, What Now, Jews? (1938)
Part Four. Nationalizing German Youth
9. Educating the Race: Children and Adolescents
99. Unknown Child, Adolf Hitler Is Our Fand#252;hrer!
100. Anonymous, Conference Minutes: Horst Wessel School in Kassel (1933and#150;45)
101. Paul Garz and Otto Hartmann, German Grammar: Active/Passive Voice (1937)
102. Paul Habermann, Arthur Laudien, and Rudolf Tobler, Heritage and Mission: A German Primer for Young Readers (1941)
103. Baldur von Schirach, To the Flag (1942)
104. Dietrich Klagges, German History for Schools (1942)
105. Gerhard Kand#246;lling and Eugen Land#246;ffler, Math Lessons (1942)
106. Otto Steche, Erich Stengel, and Maxim Wagner, School