The Origins of the Holocaust

Michael Robert Marrus

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783598215520
• eBook ISBN: 9783110970494
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

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Table of contents

• Series Preface
• Introduction
• Part One: Racism, the Occult, and Eugenics
• Social Darwinism in Germany, Seen as a Historical Problem
• The Mystical Origins of National Socialism
• On Racism and Anti-Semitism in Occultism and Nazism
• Hitler’s Racial Ideology: Content and Occult Sources
• Science and Values: The Eugenics Movement in Germany and Russia in the 1920s
• Part Two: Antisemitic Background
• Prolegomena to Any Present Analysis of Hostility against the Jews
• The Theory and Practice of Anti-Semitism
• European History – Seedbed of the Holocaust
• The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism
• Comparative Perspectives on Modern Anti-Semitism in the West
• An Economic Interpretation of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe
• German Antisemitism in the Light of Post-War Historiography
• Why Was There a Jewish Question in Imperial Germany?
• Antisemitism as a Cultural Code: Reflections on the History and Historiography of Antisemitism in Imperial Germany
• Part Three: Hitler’s Antisemitism: Politics and Psychohistory
• Hitler’s Anti-Semitism: A Political Appraisal
• Adolf Hitler’s Anti-Semitism: A Study in History and Psychoanalysis
• Hitler’s Concept of Lebensraum: the Psychological Basis
• The Hitler Controversy
• Part Four: Nazi Persecution of the Jews, 1933–
• An Overall Plan for Anti-Jewish Legislation in the Third Reich?
• Social Outcasts in the Third Reich
• The German Jews, 1933–1939
• The Third Reich and the Transfer Agreement
• The Expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany October 1938 to July 1939: A Documentation
• The Kristallnacht as Turning Point: Jewish Reactions to Nazi Policies
• The Kristallnacht as a Public Degradation Ritual
• The Strange Story of Herschel Grynszpan
• Jews in Concentration Camps in Germany Prior to World War II
• National Socialist Vienna: Antisemitism as a Housing Policy
• The Ultimate Refuge: Suicide in the Jewish Community under the Nazis
• The Jewish Badge and the Yellow Star in the Nazi Era
• Copyright Information
• Index