Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews

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by Peter Longerich


  Nationals 109–10

  Economic Group Retail 119

  Decree to Restore the Appearance of the

  economic issues

  Streets as affecting Jewish

  currency hoarding 63

  Businesses 117

  transfer of currency abroad 64

  ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition 83

  Economic Organization for the East 181

  Denmark 372

  economy: exclusion of Jews 99, 129

  Index

  631

  Economy and Armament Office,

  and Gypsies 242, 419

  OKW 284–5

  murders of mentally ill 240–1

  education 32, 39, 47, 117, 128–9

  and pogroms 192–203, 208, 212, 213

  anti-Jewish bias 75–7

  in Poland 144–5

  autonomous Jewish sector and 87, 88

  and prisoners of war 247–8

  Hitler Youth and 76

  and Russian campaign 184, 185–6, 187–91

  Jewish schools 45, 77, 133–4

  Einsatzkommandos 188, 204

  racial hygiene in humanities and

  Einsatzkommando 1a: 196

  sciences 77–81

  Einsatzkommando 1b: 237

  Reich Deputation of German Jews’

  Einsatzkommando 2: 230, 231, 252

  guidelines 88

  Einsatzkommando 3: 197, 230–1, 237, 242, universities 21, 22, 39, 76, 117, 128–9

  251–2, 298–9

  Editorial Law 40

  Einsatzkommando 5: 199–200, 225, 241,

  Education Committee of the Reich

  252

  Association 45

  Einsatzkommando 6: 199–200, 208, 211,

  Ehegesundheitsgesetz (Marriage Health

  225, 237, 241

  Law) 48, 50, 58

  Einsatzkommando 8: 198, 221–2, 223, 242,

  Ehler (commando leader) 189

  246, 252, 345

  Ehrhardt, Hermann 14

  Einsatzkommando 9: 198–9, 221, 223, 251,

  Ehrlinger, Erich 500 n. 71

  345

  Eichmann, Adolf 68, 69, 280

  Einsatzkommando 12: 227, 228, 252

  appointment of, by Heydrich 156

  Einsatzkommando Tilsit 197, 230, 231, 251

  deportation of Jews 151–2, 153, 174–5, 265, murder of Gypsies 242

  320 –1, 329, 360

  and pogroms 196–7, 198–200, 212

  deportation of Jews: from France 327,

  and Russian campaign 184, 185, 188–9

  363, 393, 394 –5

  Special Commando 4: 346

  deportation of Jews: from Greece 391

  Special Commando 4a: 200, 224, 226,

  deportation of Jews: from Hungary 367

  227, 241, 251

  deportation of Jews: into General

  Special Commando 4b: 200

  Government 156–7

  Special Commando 5: 346

  expulsion of Jews 105–6

  Special Commando 7: 198

  on Final Solution 262–3, 331

  Special Commando 7a: 221, 252

  and Hungary 409–10

  Special Commando 7b: 252

  and reprisals 300–1

  Special Commando 10a: 202, 228

  on resettlement/emigration 173

  Special Commando 10b: 202, 228, 229, 252

  and Wannsee Conference 306

  Special Commando 11a: 202, 228

  Eimann Special Guard Division

  Special Commando 11b: 202, 228, 229

  (Wachsturmbann Eimann) 138

  Special Commando 12: 203

  Einsatzgruppen (death squads) 204, 250–5

  Elkes (chairman of Kaunas Jewish

  Einsatzgruppe A: 193–4, 196–7, 230–9,

  council) 385

  240, 254

  emigration 65, 101–2, 117, 172, 173

  Einsatzgruppe B: 198–9, 208, 210–11, 213,

  from Austria 99

  219 –23, 240, 254, 519 n. 189

  ban on 285

  Einsatzgruppe C: 194, 195, 199–201, 208,

  decline in 101

  209, 210, 211, 223–7, 241, 242, 254,

  emigration tax 120

  315–16, 346, 519 n. 189

  émigrés: internment on return 55

  Einsatzgruppe D: 201–3, 209, 213, 227–30, Himmler on 102, 134–5, 158, 173, 285

  241, 254

  negotiations for international solution

  Einsatzgruppe H: 419

  through 125–6

  Einsatzgruppe for Special Purposes 201

  to Palestine 44, 67–8, 69

  and extermination through

  Tax Adjustment Law (October 1934)

  labour 315–16

  and 65–6

  and gas vans 279

  see also Central Office for Jewish

  and ghettos 212–13

  Emigration

  632

  Index

  Emigration and Evacuation (Department

  Jews and 264, 266

  IV D 4) 133

  prisoners of war 249

  Enabling Act 34, 35

  in Soviet Union 181–2

  Erren, Gerhard 238, 347–8

  forced labour 120–2, 134, 160, 211, 307, 308,

  Essen: Gau Party rally (4 August,

  315, 368

  1935) 57–8

  in General Government 167, 341

  Estonia 237, 239, 254, 384–5

  Poland 167, 341–2, 376–7, 380

  Ethnic Germans’ Office 216

  responsibility for 167

  ethnicity research 78–9

  Slovakian Jews 325

  eugenics 50, 53, 58, 74–5: see also racial see also extermination through work;

  hygiene

  labour gangs; road building

  euthanasia programmes 132, 135–42, 277–8

  Foreign Ministry: and alien half-breeds

  extermination announcements 123–5,

  (fremdvölkische Mischlinge) 93–4

  289 –90

  Forster, Albert 172

  extermination camps 261, 262, 280, 282–3,

  Forsthoff, Ernst 462 n. 41

  284, 308, 309

  Fort VI, Poznan 138

  removal of traces of 410–13

  Four-Year Plan 62–6

  see also individual camps

  Decree against Support for the

  extermination policy

  Disguising of Jewish Business

  escalation of (spring/summer

  Enterprises 100

  1942) 356 – 60

  raw materials allocation measures 99

  in Poland (1942 on) 375–82

  traffic group report 545 n. 37

  in Soviet Union 382–5

  Four-Year-Plan Organization 181

  extermination through work 314–20, 324

  France

  denaturalization law 395–6

  Faith Movement of German Christians 22

  deportation of Jews 267, 271–4, 285, 308,

  false identities 381, 561 n. 31

  327–9, 360 –1, 363, 392–6

  fashion industry: exclusion of Jewish

  Gypsies in 419

  influence on 84–5

  radicalization of persecution 403–4

  Filbert, Alfred 221, 252

  resistance movement 273, 327

  films: exclusion of Jewish influence

  Frank, Hans 154, 158, 172, 264–5, 492 n.

  on 83–4

  155

  Final Solution 2, 6–7, 176

  on AB campaign 165

  decision on implementation of 259–63

  on annihilation of Jews 308

  in Denmark 397–9

  and definition of Jewishness 160

  in Eastern Europe 330–56

  on deportations from General

  in France 329

  Government 176, 293r />
  in Galicia 292–6

  on deportations to General

  in General Government 334–5

  Government 488 n. 104

  in Poland 330–45

  and Madagascar Plan 162–3

  RSHA and 307–8

  and Warsaw ghetto 175

  in Serbia 300–1

  Frankfurter, David 62

  in Soviet Union 345–56

  Frauendorfer, Max 333, 341

  in Warsaw 335–7

  fremdvölkische Mischlinge (alien half-

  in Warthegau 290–1

  breeds) 46, 93–4

  Finance Ministry: and Haavara

  Frick, Wilhelm 15, 57, 59

  Agreement 44

  and Reich Citizenship Law 58

  Finland 368–9, 389, 390

  and economic measures against

  Fischböck, Hans 125

  Jews 61

  Flag Law 59

  on forced labour 121

  Fleischmann, Gisi 326

  16 December 1938 Judenpolitik

  Flossenbürg camp 417

  meeting 116–17

  folk history: racial hygiene in 78–9

  Friedländer, Saul 2

  food-supply policies

  Fritsch, Werner von 96

  Index

  633

  Fundamental Decree Concerning

  Generalplan Ost (Overall Eastern Plan)

  Preventive Crime-Fighting by the

  216

  Police 91

  Gens, Jacob 385

  Genschel, Helmut 66

  Galicia 208

  Gerlach, Christian 209–10, 243, 249, 263,

  deportations to extermination

  542 n. 5 & 6, 552 n. 182, 568 n. 200

  camps 331–2, 337–8

  Final Solution 2

  Final Solution in 292–6

  gas vans 531 n. 11

  forced labour projects 319

  murder of mentally ill 531 n. 13

  ghettos, dissolution of 378–9

  German Academy 21

  Jewish Councils in 296

  German-Austrian Alpine Club 21

  Jews in hiding 381

  German Historians’ Congress (1934) 78–9

  liquidation of labour camps 379

  German League (Deutschbund) 14

  mass murders (1943) 376

  German League of Gymnasts 21

  Ganzenmüller, Albert 334–5

  German National Association of

  gas chambers 139, 140, 276, 279–80, 297, 314

  Commercial Employees (DHV) 20, 23

  in Auschwitz 263, 280–2, 326, 334–5, 344,

  German National People’s Party, see DNVP

  345, 359, 408, 409, 420

  German National Student Union 21

  in Belzec 330, 334, 338

  German People’s Defence and Offence

  in Mauthausen 417

  League (Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und

  mobile 138: see also gas vans

  Trutzbund) 13, 14

  in Ravensbrück 416

  German Self-Defence Corps (volksdeutscher

  removal of traces of 410, 411

  Selbstschutz) 145

  in Stutthof 415

  German University Circle (DHR) 21

  in Treblinka 339, 340, 378, 411

  German Völkisch Freedom Party

  in Sobibor 322, 334

  (DVFP) 13

  gas vans 240–1, 278–9, 280, 531 n. 11

  German Völkisch Yearbook 13

  Chelmno 290, 380

  Gestapo 465 n. 72

  Warthegau 290

  and Aryanization 66

  Gau Party rally (4 August, 1935) 57–8

  asocials, action against 92

  Gellately, Robert 465 n. 72

  and deportations 286

  Gemeinnützigen Kranken-Transport GmbH

  farmers, action against 65

  (Public Patient Transport

  and Jewish schools 134

  Company) 139

  Kurfürstendamm café raid 103

  General Commissariat Ostland 297–300

  and security police 90, 133

  General Government 147, 153

  and Russian campaign 185

  and Aryanization 160

  Ghetto Chronicle, Lodz 344

  Department of Population and

  ghettoization 117, 118, 157, 160–1, 211

  Welfare 296

  in General Government 161, 165–6

  deportation from 176, 293, 309

  ghettos 116, 214, 308, 338, 350–2

  deportation of Gypsies into 488 n. 104

  black market in 169

  deportation of Jews into 156–7, 159, 165,

  as concentration camps 384

  172–3, 488 n. 104

  death penalty for living outside 293

  deportation of Poles into 159, 172–3, 488

  dissolution of: in Galicia 378–8

  n. 104

  Einsatzgruppen and 212–13

  extermination through labour 319

  General Government 331

  Final Solution in 292–6

  Jewish Councils in 168–70, 171

  forced labour 167, 341

  life in 167–71, 321

  ghettos 161, 165–6, 321, 331

  liquidation of Polish 376–81

  Gypsies in 157, 420

  mass murders in 221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 230

  Jewish Councils in 161

  as part of Final Solution 213

  and labelling of Jews 160

  resistance movements in 170, 353–5, 376,

  see also Aktion Reinhardt; Galicia;

  378, 385

  Madagascar Plan

  smuggling in 169

  634

  Index

  ghettos (cont.)

  Gramml, Hermann 436 n. 2

  in Soviet Union 345, 346

  Greece 368, 391, 402–3

  Wehrmacht and 212

  Green Folder 182

  White Ruthenia 383

  Greifelt, Ulrich 274

  see also individual ghettos

  Greiser, Artur 271, 291, 299, 380

  Gienanth, Curt Ludwig Freiherr von 342

  Grohé, Josef 55

  Glebokie ghetto 383

  Gross, Jan Tomasz 196

  Globocnik, Odilo 154, 216, 264, 294–5, 333,

  Gross, Walter 94

  402

  großdeutsch national identity 11–12

  and Bialystok ghetto, liquidation of 381

  Groß-Rosen concentration camp

  415–16

  and Final Solution 331

  Gruner, Wolf 121

  and General Government labour

  Grynspan, Herschel 110

  camps 379

  Guidelines for the Bearing of Forenames 98

  and Lublin ghetto, deportations from 330

  Guidelines for the Conduct of Troops in

  Ostindustrie 377

  Russia 184, 241

  Goebbels, Joseph 56, 104, 267, 562 n. 67

  Guidelines for the Treatment of Political

  and boycotts of Jewish businesses 36

  Commissars 184, 241

  on clearance of Lublin ghetto 331

  Günther, Albrecht 23

  on deportations 171, 175, 265–6, 268, 269,

  Gunzenhauzen attacks 42

  286

  Gürtner, Franz 58

  on euthanasia 278

  Gustloff, Wilhelm 62

  and exclusion of Jews from culture 82,

  Gutman, Israel 335

  83, 463 n. 54

  Gymnasts’ Movement 14

  on exclusion of Jews from everyday

  Gypsies 46, 49–50, 73, 149, 418–21

  life 114–15

  Criminal Police, persecution by 92–3

  on extermination of Jews 289

  deportation of 152, 157, 158, 286, 288–9,

  on Germany’s allies 400

  420 />
  identification of Jews by yellow star 284

  Einsatzgruppen and 419

  Jews in General Government 378

  in ghettos 289

  on mixed marriages 57–8

  and marriage 50

  and November 1938 pogrom 110–11

  murder of 242

  and segregation of Jews 103

  in Poland 419

  Goering, Hermann 19, 64, 116

  shot in reprisals 300, 301

  appointed Commissioner for Raw

  in Soviet Union in 242, 245, 419

  Materials and Currency 63

  sterilization of 49, 50, 420–1

  on Aryanization 109, 114, 116

  on attacks on Jewish businesses 33–4

  Haavara Agreement 44

  and Central Office for Jewish

  Hadamar gas chamber 139, 140

  Emigration 126

  Hagen, Herbert 68, 69, 106–7

  Daily Express interview 19

  Halder, Franz 183

  on emigration of Jews 158

  Harzburg Front 20

  and Final Solution 175–6

  Haushofer, Albrecht 155

  Green Folder 182

  Headquarters of Criminal Genealogy 91

  at Judenpolitik 12 November 1938

  health system: exclusion of Jews 74 –5,

  meeting 114

  128

  Order concerning the Verification of

  Heilpraktiker 75

  Entjudung deals 120

  Helldorf, Count 103

  on reduction of Soviet population 181

  Helm, Hans 389

  and theatre 39

  Herberer, Patricia 530 n. 9

  Goering, Matthias Heinrich 460 n. 32

  Herbert, Ulrich 440 n. 20

  Gottberg, Curt von 383

  hereditary diseases 46–7

  Gottong, Heinrich 488 n. 104

  Hereditary Illnesses Tribunal 48

  Grafeneck Mental Hospital,

  Herrmann, Günther 500 n. 71

  Württemberg 139, 140

  Hess, Rudolf 55

  Index

  635

  Hesse: riots in 110

  Jews as partisans 198

  Heydebrand von der Lasa, Ernst von 19

  and killing methods 279

  Heydrich, Reinhard 63, 64, 65, 105, 182, 190

  liquidation of Polish forced labour

  appointment of Eichmann 156

  camps 380

  and Central Office for Jewish

  in Lublin 330–1

  Emigration 126

  and newly occupied eastern areas 214–18

  and deportation of Jews 175, 275, 307, 327, order to cease killing Jews 416

  323, 363

  on Pinsk ghetto 351

  and Einsatzkommando 9: 199

  and pogroms in Lithuania 197

  and emigration policy 102, 115

  Posen (Poznan) speech 382

  and Final Solution 175–6, 260, 261, 308,

  Reichskommissar for the Strengthening

  310, 328

  of the German Nation

  and Himmler, meetings with 359

  (Reichskommissar für die Festigung

  liquidation of Poles 143–4

  deutschen Volkstum) 155

  and Madagascar Plan 163

  repatriation of Germans 150

  on Mischlinge 310

 

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