6. Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany and the “Jewish Question”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword VII
3. Editorial Note IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. Contents XIII
6. List of Illustrations XV
7. Reflections on Jewish Studies, the Jerusalem School and the Research on the Era of the “Final Solution” 1
8. I. German Jewry under the National Socialism in Historical Perspective
9. 1. German Jewry under the National Socialism in Historical Perspective 13
10. 2. History and Historical Consciousness. Similarities and Dissimilarities in the History of German and Czech Jews 1918–1945 37
11. II. Modern Antisemitism and the Ideology of the “Final Solution”
12. 3. Critique of Judaism in European Thought. On the Historical Meaning of Modern Antisemitism 63
13. 4. Richard Wagner and the Origins of the Redemptive Antisemitism 77
14. 5. Uniqueness in Context. Review of Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949 95
15. III. German Society and the Jews under the Nazi Regime
16. 6. Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany and the “Jewish Question” 109
17. 7. German Population in Nazi Germany as a Factor in the Policy of the “Solution of the Jewish Question”: The Nuremberg Laws and the Reichskristallnacht 143
18. 8. German Population and the “Solution of the Jewish Question” at the Time of the Wannsee Conference 171
19. IV. Jewish Society and its Leadership in Nazi Germany
20. 9. Jewish Society in Germany as Reflected in Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion 1933–1943 181
21. 10. The Reichsvereinigung and the Fate of the Jews. Continuity or Discontinuity in German- Jewish History in the Third Reich 197
22. 11. Ghetto in an Annihilation Camp. Jewish Social History in the Years of the “Final Solution” and its Ultimate Limits 209
23. V. Historiography of the National Socialism and the “Final Solution”
24. 12. Major Trends and Tendencies in German Historiography on National Socialism and the “Final Solution” 1924–1984 227
25. 13. Singularity and its Relativization. Changing Views in German Historiography on National Socialism and the “Final Solution” 267
26. 14. The Historikerstreit from a Personal Retrospective. On the “Case Nolte” and his Generation 295
27. VI. In Search of History and Memory
28. 15. In Search of History and Memory. Excerpts from Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death 311
29. Annotated References 327
30. Index of Names and Places 333