Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 01: The Years of Persecution

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by Saul Friedlander


  Historische Zeitschrift (HZ), 190–91, 227–28, 373

  Hitler, Adolf, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 25, 26, 28, 52, 53, 59–60, 61, 62, 64, 68, 90, 111, 131, 132, 140, 141–44, 145, 148, 151, 167, 200, 206, 207, 209, 222, 225, 226, 249, 254, 258, 260, 267, 321, 341

  Anschluss and, 239

  as armed forces commander, 236

  Aryanization orders and, 280, 281, 283, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 293

  Concordat signed between Vatican and, 46–47, 48–49, 69, 70

  decision-making methods of, 146, 148–49

  50th birthday celebration of, 332

  Four-Year Plan and, 182–83, 236

  future goals of anti-Jewish program hinted at by, 35–36, 72, 100, 143–44, 147, 187–88, 280, 309–10, 314, 315

  German resistance against, 134

  international opinion and response to, 19, 177–78, 222, 265, 291, 300, 308–9

  Kristallnacht and, 270–74, 277, 300

  Nuremberg Laws announced by, 141–43

  personal interventions by, 32, 52, 124–25, 153–54, 259, 336, 346

  Poland invaded by, 330–31

  political and economic factors in decisions made by, 3, 20, 23, 24, 29, 30, 69–72, 116–17, 139, 150, 181, 227, 291, 336, 358

  psychological makeup of, 111–12, 357, 358

  redemptive anti-Semitism as worldview of, 3, 4, 20, 46, 71–72, 74, 95–104, 177, 180, 183–89, 192, 280, 358, 359

  rise to power of, 9, 14, 17, 103, 114–16, 121, 131, 308

  and secret responsibility for brutality, 278–79

  Hitler Youth, 137, 262

  Hlond, Augustus Cardinal, 216–17

  Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 252

  Hofstadter, Richard, 84

  Höhn, Reinhard, 198

  Holländer, Ludwig, 15, 118–19

  Holocaust, 40, 247

  establishing historical account of, 1–6, 335

  Gypsies as target in, 204–5

  homosexuals as target in, 113–14, 203, 205–7

  homosexuals, 113–14, 203, 205–7, 236, 247, 302

  Honecker, Martin, 54

  Hönigswald, Richard, 52

  Hossbach, Friedrich, 150

  household help, 148, 150, 160–61, 163, 235

  housing, 260–61, 291, 320–21

  Huch, Ricarda, 11, 14

  Hull, Cordell, 69, 261

  Humani Generis Unitas, 251

  Hungary, 80, 93, 215, 244, 245, 265–66, 356, 383

  Husserl, Edmund, 53, 54

  Hüttemann, Anneliese, 197

  identity cards, for Jews, 254

  If I Were the Kaiser (Class), 34, 76

  I. G. Farben, 25–26, 234, 243

  Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, 248–49, 288, 315, 316

  Interior Ministry, German, 18, 28, 40, 51, 137, 149, 152, 154, 203, 224, 236, 254, 258, 368

  Berthold and, 31, 155–56, 321–22

  Population and Race Policy Committee of, 71, 146, 208

  Interior Ministry, Prussian, 30, 34, 207

  “International Jewry” (Hagen), 313

  international opinion, 3

  on Jewish refugee problem, 248–51, 263–68, 299–305

  on Nazi military advances, 177–78, 311, 330–31

  on Nazi programs, 19, 20, 68–70, 146, 181, 213–14, 222, 228–29, 250, 262, 291, 298–99, 300

  Isak, David, 125

  Israelitisches Familienblatt, 14, 30

  Italy, 115, 177–78, 249, 250, 251, 265, 292, 301, 383

  Jäckel, Eberhard, 97, 358

  Jacoby, Felix, 16, 55

  Japan, 178, 303

  Jehovah’s Witnesses, 203

  Jesuits, 43, 84, 250–51

  Jesus Christ, 177, 296

  Jewish, definition of, 27–28

  Jewish Chronicle (London), 146

  “Jewish question,” Hitler’s letter on, 72, 96

  “Jewish Question as the Task of Historical Research, The” (Grau), 191

  “Jew Is Human Too, The” (Weltsch), 130

  Jewish War Veterans, 21

  Jews:

  businesses owned by, see businesses, Jewish-owned

  card indexes compiled on, 28, 199

  conversions of, to Christianity, 43, 46, 47

  definition of, 76, 117–20, 148, 149, 152, 220, 367–68; see also Mischlinge

  emancipation of, 80, 82, 85–86

  emigration and expulsions of, 9, 12, 55, 61–65, 128, 134, 140–41, 165, 167–70, 179, 200–201, 214, 224–25, 237–38, 244–45, 254, 260, 280, 282–83, 287–88, 299–305, 314–19, 370, 382, 384, 393

  expressions of sympathy for, 128–30, 166, 345

  German economy and, 77–80, 126–28, 139, 168, 203, 232–39, 260, 363; see also businesses, Jewish-owned

  identifying signs for, 283, 286, 288, 291

  Jung on psyche of, 171–72, 371

  marriage between Christians and, 44, 120–22, 138, 142, 146, 148, 149–50, 152, 153, 155, 157–58, 167, 290–91

  names and name changes of, 27, 34–35, 36, 125, 135–36, 152, 254–55

  as “other,” 84, 107, 116

  reactions to Nazi anti-Jewish measures by, 14–17, 19, 20–21, 33, 55, 60–68, 167–73

  self-hating, 89

  see also anti-Semitism

  Jodl, Alfred, 153

  Jogisches, Leo, 91

  Jost, Heinz, 198

  Judaism in Music (Wagner), 88

  Judenkartei, 199

  Jüdische Rundschau, 29, 58, 129–30, 168–69, 283–84

  Jüdisches Familienblatt, 138–39

  Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt, 284

  Jung, Carl Gustav, 171–72, 371

  Jungdeutscher Orden, 103–4, 107

  Justice Ministry, German, 29, 36, 114, 125, 146, 162, 206, 208, 254, 260, 264, 270, 276, 307

  Kafka, Franz, 300

  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics, 32, 207

  Kaiser Wilhelm Society, 51–52, 131

  Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur, 109, 133, 134

  Kantorowicz, Ernst, 55–56

  Kantorowicz, Hermann, 49–50

  Kareski, Georg, 61

  Karl, Herbert, 246

  Kater, Michael, 56, 132

  Katz, Jacob, 83

  Katznelson, Berl, 64

  Keitel, Wilhelm, 236

  Kempf, Annemarie, 296

  Kennan, George F., 305

  Kerrl, Hanns, 29, 120, 154

  Kershaw, Ian, 115–16

  Kestler, Fritz, 294

  Kiel, University of, 49–50, 379

  Killy, Leo, 32

  Kipnis, Alexander, 14

  Kirk, Alexander, 291

  Klemperer, Otto, 9

  Klemperer, Viktor, 58–59, 126, 145, 324

  Klepper, Jochen, 138, 290

  Kokoschka, Oskar, 12

  Kreisler, Fritz, 133

  Kristallnacht pogrom, 20, 70, 153, 236, 258, 261, 269–76, 289, 293, 296, 299, 300, 310, 332, 387, 391

  Krojanker, Gustav, 119

  Ksinski, Max, 126

  Kube, Wilhelm, 154

  Kuhn, Richard, 52

  Kulka, Otto Dov, 164

  Kulturbund deutscher Juden, 65–66, 136, 350

  Kun, Béla, 93, 215, 356

  Künneth, Walter, 46

  labor, compulsory, 319–20

  labor camps, 245–46, 247

  Labor Ministry, German, 31–32, 208

  LaFarge, John, 250–51

  Lagarde, Paul de, 87, 219

  La grande peur des bien-pensants (Bernanos), 211–12

  Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, 220

  Lammers, Hans-Heinrich, 15, 26, 125, 135, 153, 209, 226, 270–71, 289, 331

  Landauer, Georg, 317–18

  Landsmann, Nathan, 200

  Lausegger, Gerhard, 275

  Law Against the Overcrowding of German Schools and Universities, 30–31, 38

  Law for the Compensation of Damages Caused to the German Reich by Jews, 243

  Law for the Defense of German Blood and Hono
r, 142, 149, 153, 154, 155, 159, 162, 164

  Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring, 39–40

  Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People, 152–53

  Law for the Protection of the Republic, 120

  Law for the Repeal of Naturalization and Recognition of German Citizenship, 27

  Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 12, 33, 35, 145, 226, 340–41

  “Aryan” of, 27–28, 34, 44–45, 46, 117, 344

  intermarriage and, 120–22

  supplementary decrees to, 31

  universities and, 49–60

  law profession, Jews in, 28–29, 31, 33, 56, 149, 258, 385

  Law Regulating the Position of the Jews, 35

  League of Jewish Women, 110

  League of Middle-Class Employees and Artisans, 19

  League of Nations, 169, 377

  Ledochowski, Wladimir, 251

  Leewald, Oswald, 117

  legislation, anti-Jewish, 17, 117–28, 137, 139–44, 145–73

  see also Nuremberg Laws; specific laws

  Lehar, Franz, 133, 134

  Lehmann, Margarete, 160

  Leiber, Robert, 43

  Leipzig University, 145, 193, 228, 321

  Lepecki, Mieczyslaw, 219

  Levi, Paul, 91

  Lichtenberg, Bernhard, 42, 297

  Liebehenschel, Arthur, 197

  Liebermann, Max, 12

  Liebknecht, Karl, 91

  Liepmann, Erich, 283–84

  Lippmann, Walter, 19

  List, Emanuel, 14

  Lithuania, 141, 266

  Lochner, Louis P., 332–33

  Loerke, Oskar, 130

  Loewenstein, Hugo, 117

  London, 21, 170

  Lösener, Bernhard, 147–48, 149, 151, 155, 330

  Löwenherz, Joseph, 244, 382

  Löwenstein, Leo, 15

  Löwy, Alfred, 53

  Ludendorff, Erich, 74, 196

  Ludwig, Carl, 263

  Ludwig, Emil, 34, 182

  Luitpold Gymnasium, 92

  Luther, Hans, 25

  Lutheran Church, 76

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 91, 93, 94

  Mackensen, August von, 28

  Madagascar, proposed transfer of Jews to, 219, 283, 301, 310, 377

  Mager, Hans Wolfgang, 327

  Mahraun, Arthur, 103–4

  Main Office for the Security of the Reich (RSHA), 198

  Malinoff, E. O., 120

  Mann, Heinrich, 11

  Mann, Klaus, 10, 62, 336

  Mann, Thomas, 11, 13–14, 79, 108, 130, 300, 337

  Marcuse, Herbert, 192

  marriage between Jews and Christians, 44, 120–22, 138, 142, 146, 148, 149–50, 152, 153, 155, 157–58, 167, 290–91

  Marrus, Michael, 220

  Marxism, see anti-Communism; Communism

  Maurras, Charles, 212, 221

  Mauthausen, 207, 246–47

  Mayer, Joseph, 210

  media:

  anti-Jewish articles in, 123–25, 223

  Jews in, 26, 33, 79, 80

  sympathy for Jews expressed in, 128–30

  see also international opinion

  medical profession, Jews in, 30, 31, 33, 56, 69, 149, 161, 225–26, 258, 379, 385

  Medicus, Franz Albrecht, 147

  Meinecke, Friedrich, 190

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), 46, 74, 97, 98, 100, 101, 192, 207

  Melanchthon, Philipp, 327

  Melchior, Carl, 74

  “Memorandum on the Jewish Question,” 61–62

  Mennecke, Friedrich, 196

  mental patients, 209, 328–29, 331

  Messersmith, George S., 69

  Metz, Friedrich, 293

  Meyerhof, Otto, 51–52

  Milch, Erhard, 153, 321

  Mildenstein, Baron Leopold Itz Edler von, 63–64, 198

  military service, Jewish:

  banning of, 117, 137

  in World War I, 15, 16, 28, 29, 55, 58, 61, 73–75, 117, 292–93

  Mischlinge, 140, 144, 153, 170–71, 181, 229, 254, 289, 327, 350–51, 367

  categories of, 117, 148, 149–50, 151, 156–57

  marriage and citizenship laws and, 148, 149–50, 157–58, 164, 237, 290–91, 321–23

  Mommsen, Hans, 34, 341

  Mosse, Rudolf, 79

  Moutet, Marius, 219

  Mrugowsky, Joachim, 373

  Muchow, Reinhold, 19

  Müller, Heinrich, 198, 319

  Müller, Karl Alexander von, 190–91, 192

  Müller, Ludwig, 44, 124

  Munich, 22, 24, 92, 102, 115, 131, 133, 137–38, 229, 253, 265, 272, 284

  Munich University, 52, 347

  “Murder in Davos” (Ludwig), 182

  music, de-Judaization of, 131–35, 252–53, 336, 365

  Mussolini, Benito, 250, 265

  Mutschmann, Martin, 145

  “My Way as German and Jew” (Wassermann), 109–10

  names, name changes, of Jews, 27, 34–35, 36, 125, 135–36, 152, 254–55

  National Association of Jews in Germany, 60

  nationalism, 2, 44, 56, 178, 309

  anti-Semitism and, 85, 87, 93–94, 215, 218

  National Representation of German Jews, 60–61, 124

  National Representation of Jews in Germany, 167

  National Socialist Association of Teachers, 298

  National Socialist Students Association, 13, 56, 57, 58

  Naumann, Max, 15, 109

  Nazi Enterprise Cells Organization (NSBO), 19

  Nazi Party, 16, 37, 39, 40, 46, 63, 97, 101, 105, 117–18, 120, 270

  anti-Semitic enemies of, 165–66

  Congress of, 71, 141–43, 147–48, 155, 183, 184, 255

  conservative faction of, 236–37, 259, 279

  early anti-Semitism in, 359

  early political targets and agenda of, 17–26

  electoral successes of, 102–3, 106

  formal name of, 17–18, 95

  Heidegger and Schmitt’s memberships in, 55

  Jews excluded from, 340–41

  language and logic as used by, 306–8

  Racial Policy Office of, 55, 139, 144, 154, 245

  radical faction of, 3–4, 19–20, 23, 24, 29, 70–71, 137, 138, 148–49, 163, 164, 313, 335

  Reich Central Party Office of, 133

  short vs. long-term goals of, 18, 26

  state power of, 194–95

  “Nazi Visits Palestine, A” (Mildenstein), 63–64

  Negroes, 153, 195, 196, 207–8

  Neurath, Konstantin Freiherr von, 20, 34, 146, 236, 238

  newspapers, Jewish, banning of, 130, 283–84

  “New Testament and the Race Question, The,” 45

  Nicolai, Helmut von, 27

  Nicosia, Francis, 64, 349

  Niederstetten, 41–42

  Niemöller, Martin, 45, 163, 344

  Night of the Long Knives, 114–15, 137, 147, 206, 207

  Nipperdey, Thomas, 81

  Nobel Prize laureates, 50, 51, 57, 131

  Nolte, Ernst, 98

  “non-Aryan,” definition of, 27

  Now and Forever (Roth), 372

  Nuremberg Laws, 34, 65, 117, 122, 141–44, 145–51, 161, 181, 187, 204, 235, 283, 291, 330, 367–68

  see also Citizenship Law; Law for the Defense of German Blood and Honor; Reich Flag Law

  Nuremberg Trials, 146

  Oberdorfer, Erich Israel, 325–26

  Oberländer, Theodor, 186

  Obermayer, Leopold, 113–14, 205–7

  Oesterreich, Traugott Konstantin, 50

  Offenburg, 231–32

  Office of the Deputy Führer, 224, 225, 243

  Ogilvie-Forbes, Sir George, 316

  Ohlendorf, Otto, 198

  Okhrana, 94

  Olympic Games, of 1936, 117, 123, 139, 180–81, 205, 371

  Orthodox German Jewry, 167, 198

  Ostjuden, 18, 353

  Ostmark, 241

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bsp; pacifists, 56, 57, 109, 213

  Palestine, 9, 21, 218, 270, 300, 313

  division of, 237–38

  Jewish emigration to, 61–65, 165, 168–70, 201, 225, 237–38, 299, 304, 370

  Pan-German League, 76

  Paris, 55, 220, 268, 280, 292

  Pastor’s Emergency League, 45

  Patriotic Front, 242

  Pechel, Rudolf, 109–10

  Peel Commission, 237–38

  People at Sea (Priestley), 332–33

  People’s Tribunal, 20

  Pfundtner, Hans, 135, 148, 150, 226

  Physicians’ Honor Tribunal, 30

  physics, 193–94

  Pieczuch, Konrad, 111

  Pietrowski, Edmund, 26

  Pius XI, Pope, 190, 250–51

  Pius XII, Pope, 43, 47, 223, 251

  placards, anti-Jewish, 116–17

  Planck, Max, 52, 131, 346

  pogroms, 108, 269–78

  Kristallnacht, 20, 70, 153, 236, 258, 261, 269–77, 289, 293, 296, 299, 300, 310, 332

  in Poland, 218, 352–53

  Pohl, Oswald, 246

  Poland, 20, 186, 266–67, 278, 377

  anti-Semitism in, 214, 215–19, 352–53

  Nazi invasion of, 311, 330–31

  police forces, German, 194–95

  political parties, dissolution of, 17, 39

  Polkes, Feivel, 201

  Pollack, Isidor, 243

  Popitz, Johannes, 139, 279

  population:

  of Austrian Jews, 241

  of concentration camps, 203

  of French Jews, 220, 378

  of German Jews, 15, 16, 62, 77, 150–51, 257, 316–17, 338, 352–53, 393

 

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