The Holocaust

General Links

• Jewish History Sourcebook

• The Holocaust  

• Holocaust Timeline  

• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies A collection of over 3,700 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust.

• Simon Wiesenthal Center: Information Resources

• The Adolf Eichman Trial  

• The Nazi Marking/Identification System This page contains a reproduction of an original document illustrating the various types of triangles/markings assigned to different categories of prisoner.

• Nazi Source Documents on the Holocaust  

Roots of Anti-Semitism

• Bernard Lazare: Antisemitism: Its History and Causes, 1894

• Mark Twain: Concerning The Jews, Harper's Magazine, March, 1898  

• Jacob Thorkelson: Smearing Jews in Congress, 1939 

• The Jewish Chronicle: Outrages Upon Jews in Russia, May 6, 1881

• Selections from Der Stuermer

• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 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.

• Adolf Hitler: First Antisemitic Writing, September 16, 1919 [At HNet]

• Adolf Hitler: On Antisemitism in Vienna, 1925 

The Final Solution

• The Nuremberg Laws:Introduction, 1935 

  • 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 and here  

• Heinrich Himmler: Speech to SS Group Leaders at Posen, October 4 1943 and here  

• Hermann Friedrich Graebe: Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting,, 1942

• Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony, 1946 

• Adolf Hitler: Order Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany, October 1939 

Gypsies

• Patrin: Romani History and Culture, with a specific section on The Holocast  
• Gypsies in the Holocaust  

Homosexuals

• People With a History: Online Guide to LGBT History: The Nazis and the Gays

• Heinrich Himmler: On Homosexuals  
• Para. 175 The Nazi laws on homosexual activity.
• Pierre Seel: The Death of His Lover  

Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

• Julie Heifetz: The Confession, based on a speech to a high school class 1982 
• Daniel J. Goldhagen: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust  

Revisionism

• Pierre Vidal-Naquet: The Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust

•  David Irving's Hitler Index

• Eberhard Jäckel: David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected 
• Raul Hilberg: The Destruction of the European Jews, 
• Scott Lively/Kevin Abrams: The Pink Swastika or condensed version