Chapter 1 Aspects of German Procedures in the Holocaust

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Editors’ Preface xi
5. Introduction: Nazi Responses to Popular Protest in the Reich 1
6. Chapter 1 Aspects of German Procedures in the Holocaust 10
7. Chapter 2 Women and Protest in Wartime Nazi Germany 18
8. Chapter 3 The Demonstrations in Support of the Protestant Provincial Bishop Hans Meiser: A Successful Protest Against the Nazi Regime? 38
9. Chapter 4 The Catholic Church, Bishop von Galen, and “Euthanasia” 55
10. Chapter 5 The Possibilities of Protest in the Third Reich: The Witten Demonstration in Context 76
11. Chapter 6 The “Legend” of Women’s Resistance in the Rosenstrasse 106
12. Chapter 7 Auschwitz, the “Fabrik-Aktion,” Rosenstrasse: A plea for a change of perspective 125
13. Chapter 8 The 1943 Rosenstrasse Protest and the Churches 143
14. Chapter 9 Protest and Aftermath: Placing Protest in the History of Nazi Germany 177
15. Afterword: Protest and Resistance 209
16. Appendix 1 The Situation of the “Mischlinge” in Germany, Mid-March 1943* 223
17. Appendix 2 Decree Regarding the Removal of Jews from Frankfurt/Oder Factories, February 24, 1943 229
18. Appendix 3 April 1, 1943, OSS Document Identifying Protest in Berlin with the Interruption of Deportation of Jews 233
19. Appendix 4 Translated Excerpts from the Diaries of Joseph Goebbels Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Frölich (Munich: K.G. Saur 235
20. Appendix 5 Excerpts from testimonies of women who protested for their Jewish husbands in response to a request from the Berlin Bureau of Reparations, 1955. 241
21. Appendix 6 Excerpts of Individual Sections and Paragraphs from Legal Texts and Ordinances (1933–1941) 243
22. Appendix 7 RSHA Guidelines for Deportation to Auschwitz, Berlin, February 20, 1943 247
23. Appendix 8 Documents of the SS at Auschwitz from early March 1943 indicating their “pull” for workers from Berlin and their expectation that more working Jews (intermarried) would be sent from Berlin 251
24. Appendix 9 Documents in response to the Witten Protest and from 1944 indicating Hitler’s continuing refusal to use force against “racial” civilians who refused to follow regime guidelines for evacuating bombed areas. 255
25. Appendix 10 Excerpts from the recent German press representing controversies about public protest by ordinary Germans in the Third Reich 259
26. Selected Bibliography 263
27. Index 267