The Third Reich Sourcebook (Volume 47)

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism #47

by Anson Rabinbach, Sander L. Gilman, Lilian M. Friedberg (Translator)

No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the “German Renaissance” promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror—World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With The Third Reich Sourcebook, editors Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman present a comprehensive collection of newly translated documents drawn from wide-ranging primary sources, documenting both the official and unofficial cultures of National Socialist Germany from its inception to its defeat and collapse in 1945. Framed with introductions and annotations by the editors, the documents presented here include official government and party pronouncements, texts produced within Nazi structures, such as the official Jewish Cultural League, as well as documents detailing the impact of the horrors of National Socialism on those who fell prey to the regime, especially Jews and the handicapped. With thirty chapters on ideology, politics, law, society, cultural policy, the fine arts, high and popular culture, science and medicine, sexuality, education, and other topics, The Third Reich Sourcebook is the ultimate collection of primary sources on Nazi Germany.

Genres: History, Germany

956 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Anson Gilbert Rabinbach was an American historian of modern Europe and the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus at Princeton University. He is best known for his writings on labor, Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1973 he co-founded the journal New German Critique, which he continued to co-edit.

Reviews

[Michael Pesendorfer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was assigned to me while taking a class at University of Wisconsin-Madison taught by Jost Hermand, an escapee of the Hitler Youth Program. A truly remarkable collection of documents and information documenting one of the largest human rights violation in our history as a species.

Never Forget is right.

[Mills College Library]

943.086 T445 2013