The Third Reich Sourcebook

Anson Rabinbach, Sander L. Gilman

Univ of California Press, Jul 10, 2013 - History - 923 pages

No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the ÒGerman RenaissanceÓ promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horrorÑWorld 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

• Joseph Goebbels No Dialect in Radio Broadcasts 1942 300 FilmKurier First Television Broadcast Launched 1935: 22
• On Adolf Hitlers: 28
• 1933: 41
• Diary Entry 1933 20 Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of Volk and State 1933 21 Anonymous The Reichstag Fire Declaration of Mart...: 52
• The Tripartite Division: 58
• National Socialist Law and in the National Socialist State 1936: 67
• Rudolf Hess The Oath to Adolf Hitler 1934: 74
• 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 G...: 82
• Johann von Leers The Criminality of Jewry 1940 89 Das Schwarze Korps Concentration Camps and Their Inmates 1936 90 PeterHeinz Seraphim Je...: 88
• Reinhard Heydrich Instructions for Kristallnacht 1938 95 Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer: 94
• The Victory of Faith 1933 45 Willy Liebel Five Years Nuremberg City of Party Rallies 1938 46 Victor Klemperer Listening to Görings Speech at: 101
• Between Myth and Doctrine: 107
• Adolf Hitler Speech at the NSDAP Congress on Culture 1933: 113
• Ernst Krieck The RacialVölkischPolitical Conception of History 1934: 120
• Portraits of Perfection in Life and in Art 1937: 140
• Wolf Willrich The German Face 1935: 142
• Otto Höfler Secret Cultic Societies of the Germanic Peoples 1934: 144
• A Comment on Otto Höflers Secret Cultic Societies of the Germanic Peoples 1936: 146
• Eberhard Freidank Nordic Ecstasy 1933: 148
• Alfred Baeumler Hellas and Germania 1943: 149
• Racial Science: 151
• Ludolf Haase We Need a Reich Office of Racial Affairs 1933: 153
• A Speech to German Women 1934: 157
• Paul Brohmer Biological Studies and Völkisch Education 1933: 163
• Günther Hecht Biology and National Socialism 19371938: 167
• Johann Fahlbusch Colored Blood in the Rhineland 1935: 168
• Reichsführer SS Central Office for Racial Policy Racial Policy 1942: 169
• Germanys Colonial Mission: 172
• Karl Haushofer National Socialist Thought in the World 1933: 174
• Hans Simmer German Territory and German Volk 1934: 175
• Hans Grimm My Father My Colonies 1934: 177
• Ernst Gerhard Jacob Colonial Policy as Cultural Mission 1938: 178
• Ernst Janisch The BiologicalHistorical Background of German Living Space 1943: 180
• THE CORE DOCTRINE: 183
• The Visible Enemy: 185
• Adolf Hitler Aryan and Jew 1925: 187
• Engelbert Huber The AntiSemitism of the NSDAP 1933: 192
• E H Schulz and R Frercks Why the Aryan Law? A Contribution to the Jewish Question 1934: 195
• The Jews 1935: 197
• The Work of an Alien Race 1935: 199
• Martin Buber An Open Letter to Gerhard Kittel 1933: 200
• Gerhard Kittel Response to Martin Buber 1934: 202
• From the Nuremberg Laws to Kristallnacht: 204
• Joseph Goebbels Speech at the Opening of the Reich: 205
• Reich Citizenship Law 1935: 209
• Wilhelm Stuckart and Hans Globke Civil Rights and the Natural Inequality of Man 1936: 210
• Ernst Bertram Against Humanism 1935 212 Ricarda Huch Letter to Max von Schillings President of the Prussian: 211
• Carl Schmitt German Jurisprudence and the Struggle against the Jewish Spirit 1936: 216
• Joseph Goebbels Communism with the Mask Off 1935 56 Carl Schmitt National Socialist Legal Thought 1934 57 Hans F K Günther A Modest Racial ...: 228
• Actions against the Jews on 9 10 and 11 November 1938: 232
• PART FOUR NATIONALIZING GERMAN YOUTH: 239
• 58: 253
• Oberbannführer Stephan The League of German Girls: 259
• Science History and Philosophy Revised: 266
• Ernst Krieck Renewal of the German University 1933: 270
• Arthur Göpfert Eugen Fischer Martin Heidegger and Wilhelm Pinder Vow of Allegiance of the Professors of German Universities and Institutions of ...: 271
• Karl Alexander von Müller The State of the University 1938: 278
• E Günther Gründel The Intellectuals and National Socialism 1934: 280
• Jewish Physics 1939: 282
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS Citing Jewish Authors in Dissertations 1940: 283
• Christoph Steding Disease unto Death? Disease unto Life? 1938: 284
• Johannes Haller The Epochs of German History 1936: 285
• Karl Alexander von Müller The Influence of the Peasantry in the National Community of the Volk 1938: 288
• Theodor Schieder East Prussia in the History of the Reich 1938: 289
• Kleo Pleyer Volk in the Field 1943: 291
• Ernst Krieck The German of the German Language Society 1934: 292
• Ernst Krieck Philosophy 1939: 293
• Arnold Gehlen The State and Philosophy 1935: 295
• Gerhard Fricke The German of the Enlightenment 1935: 296
• Alfred Baeumler Nietzsche and National Socialism 1943: 298
• Wolfgang Schultz Nietzsches Zarathustra and the Historical Zarathustra 1935: 300
• Heinrich Härtle Nietzsche and National Socialism 1938: 302
• PART FIVE THE RACIAL COMMUNITY: 305
• Women and the Woman Question: 307
• 137: 309
• Carola Struve Womans Freedom and Freedom of the Volk on Foundations of Camaraderie 1933: 311
• Hanns Johst Mother 1934: 314
• Emil Strauß The Mother 1934: 315
• Joseph Goebbels German Women 1933: 316
• Gertrud ScholtzKlink To Swedes and Germans 1937: 320
• A Matter for Our Women 1939: 321
• Office of Womens Affairs of the German Labor Front Working Women and Leisure Time: 323
• Gertrud AltmannGädke The Maternal Instinct Must Be Reinforced 1941: 325
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS Womens Reactions to Goebbelss Total War Speech 1943: 326
• Marriage and the Family: 327
• Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German Volk 1935: 329
• Otto Steche Guide to Racial Science and Eugenics Fostering Congenitally Sound Progeny and Family Science for the Intermediate Level 1937: 331
• Anonymous Selection and Breeding 1942: 332
• Otto Steche Erich Stengel and Maxim Wagner Womb Wars 1942: 334
• Asocials Criminals the Handicapped and the Mentally III: 335
• Law for the Protection against Hereditarily Diseased Offspring 1933: 338
• Kurt Daluege The National Socialist Fight against Criminality 1936: 339
• Reinhard Heydrich The Enemy in Disguise 1935: 341
• Kölnische Zeitung Socially FitAsocialAntisocial 1937: 343
• Adolf Hitler Memorandum Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia 1939: 344
• Clemens August Count von Galen Sermon on Euthanasia 1941: 345
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS On the Public Response to the Film Ich klage an I Accuse 1942: 347
• Rudolf Frercks Christianity and Sterilization 1942: 350
• Healthy and Unhealthy Sexuality: 351
• Das Schwarze Korps Is This Nudist Culture? Herr Stapel Is Outraged 1935: 355
• Das Schwarze Korps Sexual Indecency on Active Duty 1936: 356
• Wolfgang Willrich The Suffocating Nobility 1943: 358
• Hugo Hertwig Race and Love 1941: 361
• Jewish Doctors as Murderers 1939: 364
• A Aschenbrenner Incest and Hereditary Health 1940: 365
• Anonymous How Magnus Hirschfelds Institute for Sexual Science Was Demolished and Destroyed 1933: 367
• A Psychosexual Analysis of the Röhm Catastrophe 1934: 369
• Anonymous Illusions 1935: 371
• Revision to Paragraph 175 of the Penal Code 1935: 374
• Heinrich Himmler On Homosexuality and Abortion 1936 1937: 375
• SSUntersturmführer Professor Eckhardt Sexually Indecent Abominations against Nature Are Punishable by Death 1935: 377
• The German Soul and Psyche: 381
• Frank Maraun Christianity and Psychoanalysis 1933: 384
• The Psychoanalysis of the Jew Sigmund Freud 1933: 385
• Foundations of a German Psychotherapy 1933: 386
• Early Childhood Experiences Determine Development Later in Life 1939: 390
• Indictment and Commentaries 1935 1936: 393
• Ernest Jones Letter to Anna Freud 1935: 394
• Dr Fritz Bleiber Siegmund sic Freud and Psychoanalysis 1939: 396
• G Jung The State of Psychotherapy Today 1934: 399
• Ursula von Kardorff Suicide and Deportation 1943: 400
• Dr Leonard Reitberger On the Psychology of Suicide 1944: 401
• The Image of Japan in the German Population 1942: 403
• PART SIX THE CHURCHES: 407
• The National Socialist State and Christianity: 409
• Concordat between the Holy See and the German Reich 1933: 413
• Völkischer Beobachter Comments on the Meaning of the Concordat 1933: 419
• Declaration of the German Christians 1933: 420
• Karl Barth Theological Declaration of Barmen 1934: 421
• Statement of the Confessing Church 1934: 424
• O earth earth earth hear the word of the Lord 1938: 425
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS The Churches Attempts to Undermine AntiJewish Sentiments in the Populace 1941: 427
• Alfred Rosenberg Theses on the Worldview 1941: 429
• Aryan or Jew? 1936: 433
• Walter Grundmann Jesus of Nazareth and Jewry 1940: 435
• Where Do We Stand? 1936: 437
• Martin Bormann National Socialism and Christianity Are Irreconcilable 1941: 440
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer Resistance and Resignation 1945: 441
• PART SEVEN NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE ARTS: 443
• Official Culture and Its Outcasts: 445
• German Student Association Down with the UnGerman Spirit 1933: 449
• All AntiSemitic Students Are Assholes 1933: 450
• Association of German Peoples Librarians General Guidelines for Compiling Blacklists 1933: 451
• German Student Association Head Office for Enlightenment and Publicity To the Individual Student Associations 1933: 452
• Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung The Public Burning of Outlawed Works 1933: 453
• Oskar Maria Graf Burn Me 1933: 454
• Academy of the Arts 1933 213 Josef Nadler Nation State and Literature 1937 214 Heinz Kindermann The New Literary Values 1939: 457
• German Art vs Degenerate: 483
• Ernst Barlach Letter to Joseph Goebbels 1936: 493
• Adolf Ziegler Speech at the Opening of the Degenerate: 500
• Werner Rittich Contemporary Architecture and Architectural: 506
• 140: 514
• Fritz Todt The Meaning of the New Building 1937: 518
• The Wagner Cult vs Degenerate Music: 525
• Fritz Stege Future Tasks of Musicology 1933: 531
• Joseph Goebbels Speech at the Kaiserhof 1933: 560
• 261: 563
• Hans Traub The Cinema as Entertainment Site 1933: 566
• Reich Directive 36K 1940: 570
• Ewald von Demandowsky Film as I See It 1939: 579
• A Typical German Program 1939: 582
• Enemy of the Reich 1940: 584
• FilmKurier Leni Riefenstahl Spoke 1935: 587
• FilmKurier Triumph over the HeartTriumph of the Will 1935: 588
• Frank Maraun Franz Goelz Olympia 1938: 590
• Germanys Number One Filmmaker 1937: 593
• The Jewish Chimp in America 1940: 594
• Film of a 2000Year Rat Migration 1940: 595
• FilmKurier Review of The Eternal Jew 1941: 596
• Gerhard Starke Review of Jew Süss 1940: 597
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS The Popularity of Jew Süss 1940: 599
• On the Situation of Refugees in Hollywood 1940: 601
• Theater Radio and Television: 603
• Ludwig Moshamer The Thingstätte and Its Meaning for the Future of German Theater 1935: 606
• Radio Play in Six Acts 1933: 607
• Hermann Wanderscheck The Transformation of the Theater in the Third Reich 1939: 609
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS On Performances of Works by George Bernard Shaw 1941: 611
• Joseph Goebbels Radio as the Eighth Great Power 1933: 612
• Franz Hartung Radio and Politics 1933: 616
• Ferdinand Eckhardt No More Stars 1933: 618
• The Numbers 1934: 620
• A Wulff 500 Schoolchildren in Berlin Tell about Radio 1934: 622
• Heinz Goedecke and Wilhelm Krug Solders of the German Army Lend Us Your Ears 1941: 623
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS Armed Forces Radio Request Program Well Received 1940: 624
• Memo to Ernst Kaltenbrunner 1943: 625
• Kurt Singer Lets Get Started 1933: 632
• of the Reich Organization of Jewish Cultural Leagues in Germany 1936 303 Hans Hinkel The Policy of Purging Jews from the Theater 1936 304 Ro...: 638
• Emigration Distinctions Emancipation Military Service 1937 308 Culture Department of the Vilna Ghetto Judenrat Cultural Activities: 644
• A German Takes on: 682
• Roosevelts Struggle: 689
• The 1936 Olympics and the World of Sports: 695
• And the Match Goes to the Opponent 1936 338 Das Schwarze Korps Jewish Victor in the German College: 704
• Laughter in the Third Reich: 710
• American Committee for AntiNazi Literature Coffee Shortage: 716
• Adolf Hitler Speech to the Great German Reichstag 1939 351 Julius Streicher Bolshevism and Synagogue 1941 723: 723
• Four Decrees Issued in Occupied Poland 19391941: 725
• Black France Enlists Negroes as Cannon Fodder for the Eternal Jew 1940: 727
• Alfred Rosenberg The Jewish Question as World Problem 1941: 728
• Victor Klemperer Reading Rosenbergs Myth in 1942 1942: 732
• Heinrich Himmler Some Thoughts on the Treatment of Racial Aliens in the East 1940: 733
• Three Decrees 1938 1939: 735
• Johannes Blaskowitz The Military and the Slaughter of the Jews 1940: 736
• Joseph Goebbels The Jews Are Guilty 1941: 737
• Hermann Göring Order to Heydrich to Begin Preparations for the Final Solution to the Jewish Question 1941: 740
• Karl Baumböck Jews Practice World Politics 1942: 742
• The Annihilation of European Jewry 19421945: 745
• Reinhard Heydrich Policy and Operations Concerning Jews in the Occupied Territories 1939: 749
• Wannsee Protocol 1942: 752
• the Takeover of Power 1936: 753
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS Battle against the Jews 1942: 758
• Reich Leader SSSS Main Office The Jew 1943: 759
• Interview in Warsaw 1941: 760
• Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniaków 1940 1942: 764
• Stefan Ernest Warsaw Ghetto Diary 1942: 765
• Abba Kovner and Others A Summons to Resistance Vilna Ghetto 1942: 767
• Hans Frank Diary Entry 1943: 769
• Walter Gross Racial Political Prerequisites for the Solution of the Jewish Problem 1943: 770
• Józef Zelkowicz Diary of the Łódź Ghetto 1942: 771
• Dawid Sierakowiak Notebooks from the Łódź Ghetto 1942: 775
• Stanislaw Sznapman Warsaw Ghetto Diary 1943: 776
• Stefania Staszewska Warsaw Ghetto Diary 1944: 778
• General Jürgen Stroop Report on the Destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto 1943: 779
• Heinrich Himmler Speech at Posen 1943: 785
• Egon Gonda Redlich Theresienstadt Diary 1944: 791
• Oswald Pohl Expanding Auschwitz 1942: 795
• Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba Auschwitz Protocols 1944: 797
• A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando 1944: 803
• 19391945: 815
• Theodor Schieder Notes on Settlement and Population Surveys in the Reclaimed Eastern Provinces 1939: 818
• Major General Hellmuth Stieff Letter from Poland 1939: 819
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS Bilingualism as Means and Expression of German Superiority in the East 1940: 820
• Joseph Goebbels Address to the Leaders of the NSDAP in Vienna 1940: 821
• Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars 1941: 822
• On the Treatment of NonGerman Populations in the Eastern Territories 1942: 823
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS Rumors and Murmurings 1942: 824
• The Image of Russia in the Populace 1942: 825
• Hermann Ernst Grobig Why Racial Hygiene in Wartime? 1944: 826
• Joseph Goebbels Now People Rise Up and Let the Storm Winds Blow 1943: 828
• Thomas Mann Response to Joseph Goebbels 1943: 831
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS Reactions to Goebbelss Speech 1943: 832
• Reactions to the Katyn Forest Massacre 1943: 833
• Martin Bormann Safeguarding the Future of the German People 1944: 834
• PART ELEVEN RESISTANCE: 839
• Communists Socialists Youth and the Conservative Resistance: 841
• The Brown Book The Road to Power 1933: 844
• The Bloody Thirtieth of June in Germany 1934: 848
• Miles Walter Löwenheim Socialisms New Beginning 1934: 850
• Wilhelm Reich The Mass Psychology of Fascism 1933: 851
• Willi Münzenberg Propaganda as a Weapon 1937: 852
• Second Leaflet 1942: 855
• Secret Report of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS Reports on the Program to Combat Criminal Subversion 1943: 857
• Reactions to the Weekly Newsreel for 27 February5 March 1943: 859
• Heinrich Himmler Decree on Youth Gangs 1944: 860
• Ludwig Beck Becks Response to Hitlers Arguments on 5 November 1937 1939: 862
• Ulrich von Hassell Diary Entry 1941: 863
• Helmuth James von Moltke Principles for the New Order: 865
• Hitlers Last Will and Testament: 871
• Credits: 887
• Jutta Rüdiger The Eastern Deployment of the BDM 1942: 889
• Wilfrid Bade The Führer and the Automobile 1938: 892
• Index: 895
• Curt Belling The Beginning of National Socialist Film 1936: 896
• Gerhard Engel Adolf Hitler on the Reichsautobahn 1938 321 Fritz Todt Nordic Man and Transportation 1937 322 Friedrich Tamms The Reichsauto...: 916

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; Volume 47 of Weimar and now
• Authors: Anson Rabinbach, Sander L. Gilman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0520208676, 9780520208674
• Length: 923 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / General