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Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews

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by Peter Longerich


  on Riga ghetto: massacre of Jews in 299

  plans for Jewish reservation in

  on Romania 370

  Poland 148–9

  on Sobibor 379

  and pogroms in Lithuania 197

  and SS Death’s Head Formations 186–7

  Poles as workforce 157

  Ukraine: inspection tour in 229

  on prisoners of war 247

  widening of measures against

  on Reichskristallnacht 114

  Jews 219–20

  on resettlement of Jews 173

  Hindenburg, Paul von 38

  reprisals for death of 322

  Hinkel, Hans 39, 87, 171

  and Upper Silesia 343

  Hitler, Adolf 15, 17, 306, 320, 405

  at Wannsee Conference 307

  and Arabs 289–90

  Hilberg, Raul 2, 167, 202

  on armaments industry 369

  Himmler, Heinrich 55, 59, 68–9, 413

  and Asocial Operation 104

  on ‘Asiatic’ people 241

  on attacks on Jewish businesses 34, 183

  on asocials 324

  on Bolshevism 180

  at Auschwitz 335

  on culture 81, 463 n. 48

  concentration camp in Warsaw

  and Denmark 398

  ghetto 376

  deportation of Jews 172, 265–7, 274, 324

  on concentration camp prisoners’

  eradication of Jews 289–90

  performance rates 316

  and euthanasia programmes 136–7

  concentration camps in Soviet

  on executions 207, 214

  Union 383–4

  and extermination

  on conquest of Soviet Union 184, 185

  announcements 123–4

  and Croatian Jews 389

  on Horthy 407–8

  deportation of Jews 98, 153, 267, 274, 367,

  Jewish reservation plans 150

  409, 483 n. 12

  and Judenpolitik 115–16

  and Einsatzkommando 9: 199

  liquidation of Poles 143

  on emigration 102, 134–5, 158, 173, 285

  and Madagascar Plan 162, 163

  exemptions from deportations 318

  Reichstatthalter conference speech 40

  on extinction of concept ‘Jew’ 162

  resettlement in General Government 172

  and Final Solution 176, 329, 334–5

  Sportpalast speech 320

  and forced labour 316, 380

  Times interview 17

  on General Government 333, 334–5, 378

  on Warthegau 291

  and Gestapo action against asocials 92

  Hitler-Papen government 38

  on Gypsies 420

  Hitler Putsch (November 1923) 14

  and Heydrich: meetings with 359

  Hitler Youth

  and homosexuals, persecution of 93

  and boycotts of Jewish businesses 36

  Jewish armaments workers 342

  demonstrations outside Jewish

  Jewish prisoners as hostages 411–12

  businesses and restaurants 55–6

  636

  Index

  Hitler Youth (cont.)

  Jedwabne pogrom 196

  and education 76

  Jeglava, Latvia 196, 240

  Höfle, Hans 262, 322, 340, 405

  Jersak, Tobias 261

  Hofmann, Otto 294

  Jewish Affairs and Evacuation Matters

  holiday resorts 24–5

  (Department IV B 4) 133

  Holz, Karl 108

  Jewish Aid and Rescue Committee

  homosexuality 46, 48, 50–1

  (Vaada) 408, 412

  homosexuals

  Jewish Assets Tax 119–20

  castration of 48

  Jewish Bolshevism 180–1, 182, 183, 300

  in concentration camps 93

  Jewish combat organization (Zydowska

  Hoppe, Günther 415

  Organizacja Bojowa, ZOB) 377

  Höppner, Rolf 264

  Jewish Councils

  Horthy, Miklós

  405, 406, 408–9

  and clearing of ghettos 339, 341

  Höß, Rudolf 261–2, 281

  and ghetto resistance 353

  hostages 35, 97, 116, 125, 130, 269, 273, 303,

  in ghettos 168–70, 171, 353

  412

  in Hungary 407

  Odessa: massacre in 229

  in Poland 161, 291, 296, 336

  shot in reprisals 202, 270, 276, 300–1, 319,

  in Slovakia 326

  327, 328

  Jewish Cultural Association 128

  see also Madagascar Plan

  Jewish half-breeds (Mischlinge) 310

  housing 210, 233

  definition of 61–2

  deportations and 269–70

  Jewish Military Association (Zydowski

  for Jews 117, 118, 134, 160

  Zwiazek Wojskowy, ZZW) 377

  evacuated by Jews, allocation of 288

  Jewish National Committee for Physical

  eviction of Jews from 269–70

  Education in Germany 46

  see also ghettoization

  Jewish police 336, 339, 344, 353

  Hugenberg, Alfred 20

  Jewish Reich National Association 67

  Hummel, Herbert 333

  Jewish reservation 148, 149–50, 156, 158–9

  Hungary 209, 364–5, 370, 371, 405–10

  Jewish Veterans’ Organization 37

  deportation of Jews from 367

  Jewish Winter Aid scheme 88

  Gypsies in 419

  Jodl, Alfred 182

  Jewish Councils in 407

  Johnson, Erik Arthur 465 n. 72

  massacre of Jews from 224

  journalism 129

  Judenpolitik 4–9, 30, 35–6, 70, 129–30,

  identification, see labelling

  374 –5, 399, 400, 413

  Immigration Law 58

  6 December 1938 meeting 115–16

  intelligentsia 144, 156, 162, 167, 200, 207,

  12 November 1938 meeting 114 –15

  247

  16 December 1938 meeting 116 –17

  intelligentsia campaign 145, 165

  Hitler and 115–16

  Jewish-Bolshevist 182, 183

  Jüdische Rundschau 66

  Intergovernmental Committee on Political

  Jung, Carl Gustav 460 n. 32

  Refugees 105

  Jungdeutscher Orden (Young German

  International Conference on Refugees

  Order) 13–14

  (1938) 105

  Jünger, Ernst 23

  Italy 364, 368, 369–70, 372, 396, 400, 401–2

  Jungfernhof camp 297, 300, 346

  jurisprudence: racial hygiene in 79

  Jäger, Karl 197, 230, 236

  Janovska concentration camp,

  Kaiserwald concentration camp 297, 298,

  Lemberg 382

  383, 384, 414

  Jansen, Hans 487 n. 101

  Kállay, Miklos 371, 406

  Jasenovac camp 419

  Kamenetsk-Podolsk 351

  Jeckeln, Friedrich 188, 199, 218, 223–5, 226,

  Kamenetsk-Podolsk massacre 224, 253

  236 –7

  Kammler, Hans 316

  and massacre of Jews 251, 299–300

  Kastner, Rudolf 412–13

  Index

  637

  Katowice, Poland 151–2

  labelling

  Katzmann, Fritz 294, 319, 337, 338, 551 n.

  of Jews 16, 65, 103, 116, 118, 160, 284, 371

  167

  of Jews: by means of Star of David 160,

  dissolution of Galician ghettos 378–9

  222, 232, 284, 361, 386, 408

  and Lemberg massacre 376

  opposition to 288

  Kaufmann broc
hure 266

  psychiatric labels 47

  Kaunas (Kovno) concentration

  labour camps 161, 167, 296

  camp 414–15

  as concentration camps 379

  Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto 213, 235–6, 297,

  liquidation of 379

  298–9

  Radom 376

  as concentration camp 384

  labour gangs 160, 212, 229, 232

  resistance movement 385

  LAF (Lithuanian Activist Front) 193

  Kaunas (Kovno) pogrom 193–4, 197

  Lammers, Hans-Heinrich 173, 216

  Keitel, Wilhelm 146, 184, 342, 528 n. 72

  Lange, Herbert 138, 279, 290, 297

  Kersten, Felix 416

  Latvia 233–4, 252, 346, 383–4

  Kherson massacre 228–9

  local voluntary troops 239

  Kiev 349

  mass murders in 254

  Killinger, Manfred 366

  murders of mentally ill 240

  Klee, Ernst 477 n. 44

  Laval, Pierre 360, 361, 393, 395–6

  kleindeutsch national identity 11–12

  law: racial hygiene in 79

  Klemperer, Victor 474 n. 9, 475 n. 19

  Law against Dangerous Habitual

  Kleß

  heim Conference ( 17–18 April, 1943) 405

  Criminals 48

  Kley, Stefan 473 n. 4

  Law against the Overcrowding of German

  Knoblauch, Kurt 187

  Schools and Universities 39

  Knochen, Helmut 327, 393, 394–5, 403

  Law for the Protection of German Blood

  Kocborowo (Conradstein) Mental

  and German Honour 60

  Hospital 138, 477 n. 44

  Law for the Protection of the Genetic

  Koch, Erich 172, 350, 352

  Health of the German People 48

  Koeppen, Werner 268

  Law for the Re-establishment of a

  Kohl, Lieutenant General (head of railway

  Professional Civil Service 38

  transport department) 327

  lawyers: action against 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 101

  Kolbow, Karl 278, 530 n. 1

  Lebensraum programme 179–80

  Könekamp, Eduard 154–5

  Lecca, Radu 557 n. 298

  Königsberg Church Congress (1927) 22

  Lemberg (Lvov): Janovska concentration

  Koppe, Wilhelm 156, 267

  camp 382

  Körner, Paul 212

  Lemberg (Lvov) extermination camp 282,

  Krakowski, Shmuel 381

  533 n. 40

  Krausnick, Helmut 188, 436 n. 2, 503 n. 38,

  Lemberg (Lvov) ghetto 331–2, 337, 376

  521 n. 1

  Levetzow, von (Chief of Berlin Police

  Kremenec ghetto 351

  Force) 56

  Kripo, see Criminal Police

  Lida ghetto 383

  Kristallnacht 109–13

  Liepaja, Latvia 196, 236

  Krüger, Friedrich Wilhelm 153, 267, 294,

  ban on executions 297–8

  332, 333, 338, 341–2, 375, 376, 483 n. 28

  Lithuania 252, 346, 383, 384

  General Government 378, 379, 492 n. 155

  local voluntary troops 239, 240

  Krzemieniec pogrom 195

  mass murders in 197, 198–9, 235–7, 254

  Kube, Wilhelm 237, 297, 298, 347, 348

  murders of mentally ill 240

  Kulturbund Deutscher Juden (Cultural

  Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) 193

  Association of German Jews) 45–6

  local voluntary troops

  Kurfürstendamm, Berlin

  (Schutzmannschaften) 239–40

  café raid 103

  Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto 160, 167, 267,

  riots 56

  271, 291, 344, 380 –1

  Kutno ghetto 160

  deportations to Auschwitz 380–1

  Kwaternik, Slavko 265

  Ghetto Chronicle 344

  638

  Index

  Lodz (cont.)

  mass murders: justification for 313–14

  Gypsies in 288

  Masur, Norbert 570 n. 261

  Jewish Councils in 291

  Mauthausen concentration camp 361, 417

  Lohse, Hinrich 232, 235, 280, 297–8, 348

  May, Rudolf 218

  Lorraine 171–2

  Mayer, Saly 413

  Losacker, Ludwig 333

  medicine

  Lösener, Bernhard 59–60, 121–2, 455 n. 34

  autonomous Jewish sector and 88

  Lothian, Lord 453 n. 8

  racial hygiene in 80

  Lower Silesia 415

  Mein Kampf (Hitler) 179

  Lublin 159, 167, 264, 302, 314, 321–2, 333

  Meldepflicht über missgestaltete usw.

  Aktion Reinhardt in 292–6

  Neugeborene (Requirement to Report

  deportations from 332, 337

  Newborn Children with any form of

  identity cards 296

  Handicap) 136

  mass murders in 330–1, 334, 338, 357–8, 382

  mentally ill

  see also Belzec extermination camp;

  mental deficiency label 47, 48

  Majdanek concentration camp; Nisko

  murders of 240–1, 279

  Project; Ostindustrie; Sobibor

  Metz, Wilhelm 154

  concentration camp

  Meyer, Alfred 382

  Lublin ghettos 157, 161, 321, 380

  Meyer, Konrad 216, 274, 309

  clearance of 330–1, 378

  military service

  deportations to Belzec 331

  exclusion of Jews 55, 121

  Ludendorff, General Erich 14

  reintroduction of 55

  Ludin, Hans 404

  Minsk 348

  Luniniec ghetto 350

  Final Solution 347

  Luther, Martin (Foreign Office) 285, 300–1,

  murder of ‘Asiatic’-looking people 241–2

  366, 367, 370, 371, 405

  murders of mentally ill 240

  on Belgian Jews 387–8

  transports to 322–3

  and deportations from Greece 391

  Minsk extermination camp 284

  on Italy 372

  Minsk ghetto 213, 222, 271, 298, 383

  resistance in 355

  Mach, Sano 295

  Mischlinge (half-breeds) 61

  Mackensen, Eberhard von 393

  alien half-breeds (artfremde/

  Madagascar Plan 148, 161–5

  fremdvölkische Mischlinge) 46, 93–4

  consequences of 171–3

  definition of 61–2

  successor to 173–6

  Gypsies 420

  Majdanek concentration camp 321, 322, 332,

  Heydrich on 310

  340, 382, 411

  Mogilev, Belarus 222, 240–1, 282

  expansion of 315

  Mokrov ghetto 350

  Slovakian Jews 325

  Mommsen, Hans 1, 71, 437 n. 5

  sub-camps 379

  Movement for Life Reform 14

  Makkabi movement 451 n. 86

  Müller, Heinrich 126, 151, 152–3, 318, 395

  Maly Trostinets 323, 344

  Müller, Hellmuth 294, 295

  Manstein, Erich von 242

  Munich: anti-Semitic violence 55

  marriage 50

  Musial, Bogdan 501 n. 2, 537 n. 100, 538 n.

  Certificates of Suitability for Marriage 48

  111/2

  Gypsies and 50

  Mussolini, Benito 368, 369–70, 372, 393–4,

  mixed 54–5, 57–8, 60

  396

  marriage loans 41, 48

  Musy, Jean-Marie 413

  Marriage Health Law

  (Ehegesundheitsgesetz) 48, 50, 58 />
  National Air-Raid Protection League

  marriage loans 41, 48

  (Reichsluftschutzbund) 134

  Marschler (Nazi Thuringian Minister) 445

  National German Freedom Movement 15

  n. 89

  National Rural League (Reichslandbund,

  mass escapes 354–5, 381

  RLB) 20

  Index

  639

  National Socialist Campaign Group for

  Oberg, Carl 327, 329, 361, 395

  German Culture 39

  Oberhauser, Josef 331

  National Socialist German Workers Party,

  Odessa massacre 229, 366

  see Nazi Party

  Ohlendorf, Otto 187, 188–9, 227, 229, 252

  National Socialist League of German

  OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres, Army

  Students 22

  High Command) 144, 183, 184, 383

  National Socialist Monthly Journal 19

  OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht,

  National Socialist Motor Corps 145

  Army High Command) 270, 284–5

  National Socialist Organization of Small

  Olympic Games, Berlin 62

  Businesses 59

  Order concerning Domicile

  National Socialist Student League 39

  Restrictions 166

  National Socialist Trade Organization (NS-

  Order concerning the Verification of

  Hago) 41

  Entjudung deals 120

  National Socialist Welfare Provision 73

  Order Police 345, 346, 351, 382

  nationalism 11–12

  and pogroms in Belarus 198

  natural sciences: racial hygiene in 80

  and Russian campaign 184, 185, 186

  Nazi Party (National Socialist German

  Ordnungspolizei (regular police force) 145

  Workers Party, NSDAP) 13, 14

  Organisation Schmelt 280, 292, 343, 360,

  anti-miscegenation draft laws 15–16

  380

  anti-Semitic propaganda 15–17

  Organization of German Zionists 37

  exclusion of Jews from everyday life

  Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

  15, 18

  (OUN) 193, 194, 195

  first anti-Semitic wave during seizure of

  Ostindustrie 377, 381

  power 32–46

  Ostmark 152, 158, 320, 321

  Judenpolitik 4–9, 35–6

  Ostrava, Moravia 151–3

  persecution of other groups 46–51

  Oswald, Michael 333

  racial policies 30–2, 70–2

  OUN (Organization of Ukrainian

  Racial Policy Office 156

  Nationalists) 193, 194, 195

  refounding of 15

  Overall Eastern Plan (Generalplan Ost) 216

  Nebe, Artur 152, 198, 221, 252, 279

  Owinska (Teskau) Mental Hospital 138

  murder of mentally ill 531 n. 13

  Netherlands

  Palestine: Jewish emigration to 44, 67–8, 69

  deportations from 360, 361–2, 363,

  Pan-German League (Alldeutscher

  387

  Verband, AdV) 14

  Gypsies in 419

  Paramilitary Police (Schutzpolizei) 145

  Neuengamme, Germany 416, 417, 418

 

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