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Contents

• The Holocaust
• Anti-Semitism
  • Religious Anti-Semitism
  • Racist Anti-Semitism
  • Violent Racist Anti-Semitism
• The "Final Solution": The Murder of European Jewry
• Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
• The Handicapped
• The Roma [Gypsies]
• Serbs
• Homosexuals
• "Revisionism"
• Pre- and Post-Holocaust Genocides
  • Armenia 1914-
  • Bangladesh 1971
  • East Timor 1975-
  • Cambodia 1978
  • Rwanda 1996
  • Former Yugoslavia

• WEB Jewish History Sourcebook
• WEB The Holocaust [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Holocaust Timeline [At HistoryPlace]
• WEB Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies [At Yale]
  A collection of over 3,700 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust.
• WEB Simon Wiesenthal Center: Information Resources
• WEB The Adolf Eichman Trial [At Remember.Org]
• The Nazi Marking/Identification System [At HistoryPlace]
  This page contains a reproduction of an original document illustrating the various types of triangles/markings assigned to different categories of prisoner.
• Ressources documentaires sur le génocide nazi et sa négation / Documentary Resources on the Nazi Genocide and its Denial [In French and English]
• Nazi Source Documents on the Holocaust [At Shamash.org]

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Anti-Semitism

• 2ND Bernard Lazare: Antisemitism: Its History and Causes, 1894, full text  [At this Site]
• Mark Twain: Concerning The Jews, Harper's Magazine, March, 1898  [At this Site]
• Religious Anti-Semitism
  • See Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Selected Sources for texts on Medieval religious Anti-Semitism.
  • Martin Luther (1483-1546): Luther Before 1517: Letters to Spalatin  [At this Site]
    These letters are interesting in showing Luther's atitude towards Rome and towards theology. They also reveal that Luther's hatred of Jews, best seen in his 1543 letter, was not some affectation of old age, but was present very early on.
  • Martin Luther (1483-1546): The Jews and Their Lies 1543, excerpts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
  • Martin Luther (1483-1546): On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543, full text.  [At Medieval Sourcebook]
  • Pope Benedict IV: On Jews and Christians Living in the Same Space (A Quo Primum), 14 Jun 1751 [At Papal Encyclicals]
  • Chesterton and Antisemitism [At Second Spring][Modern Account]
    Modern effort to defend him.
  • Harold Brackman, The Not So Secret Relationship Between Jews and the Slave Trade: The Polemical Dimension, [At Jew Watch]
    Looks at a theme of continuing Anti-Semitism.
• Racist Anti-Semitism
  • Emile Zola (1840-1902): J'accuse, L'Aurore, 13 January 1898, in French [at Cnam] or Émile Zola: J'accuse [French text][At BPJJ]
    Zola's scathing attack on the Dreyfus case.
  • T.S. Eliot: Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar [At Bartleby]
    Eliot, one of the greatest of 20th-century poets was, nevertheless, an anti-Semite. The casual anti-Semitism of much of the Western elite tends to be overlooked in discussions of religious and racial anti-Semitism, but was an important contributor to the tragedy of the Holocaust. [See also Eliot's The Waste Land.]
  • Jacob Thorkelson: Smearing Jews in Congress, 1939 [At this Site]
• Violent Racist Anti-Semitism
  • The Jewish Chronicle: Outrages Upon Jews in Russia, May 6, 1881
  • Selections from Der Stuermer
  • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion [PDF File] [At D. Dickerson] [Full Text]
    Note that this text, which has directly caused the death of thousands of Jews, is a complete fabrication. See here for a discussion of the text. -Please note that this text is emphatically not endorsed by the Modern History Sourcebook.
  • Karl Lueger
  • Adolf Hitler: First Antisemitic Writing, September 16, 1919 [At H-Net]
  • Adolf Hitler: On Antisemitism in Vienna, 1925 [At H-Net][From Mein Kampf]
  • Selections from Der Stuermer [At this Site]
    Der Stuermer, edited by Julius Striecher, was a perhaps the most aggressively anti-Semitic Nazi publication.

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The "Final Solution": The Murder of European Jewry

• The Nuremberg Laws:Introduction, 1935 [At Holocaust/Shoah]
  • Law of Protection of the German Race: Hereditary Health
  • Law of Protection of the German Race: Citizenship
  • Law of Protection of the German Race: German Blood and German Honor
• The Wannsee Conference Minutes, January 1942 [At HistoryPlace] and here [At Hanover]
• Heinrich Himmler: Speech to SS Group Leaders at Posen, October 4 1943 [At HistoryPlace] and here [At Hanover]
• Hermann Friedrich Graebe: Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting,, 1942, excerpts [At this Site]
• Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony, 1946 [At this Site]
• Poetry in the Concentration Camp [At Telisphere]
• Elie Wesiel: Never Shall I Forget [At HMD]

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Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

• Julie Heifetz: The Confession, based on a speech to a high school class 1982 [At Telisphere]
• Christa M.: A German witness describes prisoners from Dachau [At Yale]
• Daniel J. Goldhagen: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust [At HistoryPlace][Modern Opinion Piece]

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The Handicapped

• Adolf Hitler: Order Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany, October 1939 [At H-Net]

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The Roma [Gypsies]

• WEB Roma in the Czech Republic
  Radio Prague site dedicated to Roma. Looks at history and culture, and continuing prejudice.
• WEB Patrin: Romani History and Culture, with a specific section on The Holocast [At Geocities]
• Gypsies in the Holocaust [At this Site]
• Anna W.: A Gypsy survivor describes medical experiments at Ravensbrück [With Multimedia][At Yale]

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Serbs

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Homosexuals 

• WEB People With a History: Online Guide to LGBT History: The Nazis and the Gays
• Heinrich Himmler: On Homosexuals [At PWH]
• Para. 175,[At PWH]
  The Nazi laws on homosexual activity.
• Pierre Seel: The Death of His Lover [At PWH]

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Revisionism

• Pierre Vidal-Naquet: The Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust [At CMU]
• Eberhard Jäckel: David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected [At Nizkor]
• Scott Lively/Kevin Abrams: The Pink Swastika [At Abiding Truth] or condensed version [At Leader U]
• Citizens Allied for Civic Action (CAFCA): THE ANNOTATED PINK SWASTIKA [At Geocities]
  Extensive point by point refutation of the Lively/Abrams book. The effort is worthwhile, but it should be noted that no serious historian takes the Lively/Abrams book seriously as anything other than evidence about the modern American far right [a phenomenon of serious historical interest.]

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Pre- and Post-Holocaust Genocides

• UN Resolution 260- On Genocide, 1948 [At this Site]
• Armenia 1914-
  • WEB The Armenian Genocide [At armeniapedia.org]
    The genocide of Armenians took place during WWI in Turkey's eastern provinces.
• Bangladesh 1971
• East Timor 1975-
  • East Timor 1975-Present: Interview with Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Der Spiegel 42/1996 (Oct. 14, 1996) [At Speigel]
• Cambodia 1978
  • François Ponchaud, Cambodia 1978: Year Zero, 1978, excerpts [At this Site]
• Rwanda 1996
  • Nightmares of a Rwandan Survivor, [At Internet Archive, from the Guardian]
• Former Yugoslavia

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