The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945.

About this book

Covered here are the events involved in the preparation and implementation of the planned annihilation of Europes Jews by the Nazis. Part I is a compact history of preparatory steps leading to the decision to destroy the Jews physically including Western anti-Semitic practices and doctrines the collapse of the Weimar Republic leading to the rise of Nazism and Hitlers rise to power the early anti-Jewish laws and the crucial events of 1938 including Kristallnacht. The text also deals with the German invasion of Russia and the mass executions of Jews by mobile killing units that accompanied the army forced ghettoization of Jews in German-occupied Europe Jewish resistance efforts deportations from western central and southeastern Europe and rescue efforts and failures. Part II includes 100 readings that document and elucidate these events and include first-hand testimony official Nazi and Allied documents eyewitness accounts and diary and memoir excerpts.