The Third Reich Sourcebook

Anson Rabinbach, Sander L. Gilman

University of California Press, Jul 10, 2013 - History - 956 pages

No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror—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.

Contents

• PART TWO THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORLDVIEW: 105
• THE CORE DOCTRINE: 183
• PART FOUR NATIONALIZING GERMAN YOUTH: 239
• PART FIVE THE RACIAL COMMUNITY: 305
• PART SIX THE CHURCHES: 407
• PART SEVEN NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE ARTS: 443
• PART EIGHT WORK INDUSTRY MODERNITY: 647
• PART NINE BODY CULTURE SPORTS PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS: 693
• PART TEN WAR CONQUEST AND THE ANNIHILATION OF THE JEWS: 719
• PART ELEVEN RESISTANCE: 839
• PART TWELVE DEFEAT: 869
• Bibliography of EnglishLanguage Works: 875
• Credits: 887
• Index: 895

About the author

Anson Rabinbach is professor of history at Princeton University, founder and co-editor of New German Critique, and author of several books, including In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment. Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as a professor of psychiatry at Emory University, and is the author or editor of over eighty books, including Obesity: The Biography and Wagner and Cinema (co-edited with Jeongwon Joe).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Third Reich Sourcebook; Volume 47 of Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
• Authors: Anson Rabinbach, Sander L. Gilman
• Publisher: University of California Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0520955145, 9780520955141
• Length: 956 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / General