Germans and the Holocaust

Susanna Schrafstetter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont. She is the author of two books about the history of nuclear non-proliferation, and has recently published Flucht und Versteck, a book about fugitive Jews in Munich and Bavaria during World War Two.

• PrefaceList of AbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction: The German People and the HolocaustAlan E. Steinweis and Susanna SchrafstetterChapter 1. Antisemitism in Germany, 1890-1933: How Popular Was It?Richard S. LevyChapter 2. German Responses to the Persecution of the Jews as Reflected in Three Collections of Secret ReportsFrank BajohrChapter 3. Indifference? Participation and Protest as Individual Responses to the Persecution of the Jews as Revealed in Berlin Police Logs and Trial Records, 1933-45Wolf GrunerChapter 4. Babi Yar, but not Auschwitz: What Did Germans Know about the Final Solution?Peter FritzscheChapter 5. Submergence into Illegality: Hidden Jews in Munich, 1941-1945Susanna SchrafstetterChapter 6. Where Did All “Our” Jews Go? Germans and Jews in Post-Nazi GermanyAtina GrossmannAppendixesProclamation of the Alliance against the Arrogance of Jewry, 1912Reports from American Diplomat George S. Messersmith to the State Department (Excerpts), 1933Police Precinct Report, Berlin, 1938Social Democratic Party (SoPaDe) Report on the November 1938 Pogrom (Excerpts), 1938Report from the Mayor of Amt Borgentreich to the Gestapo in Bielefeld (Excerpt), 1938SD Reports on German Popular Opinion during World War II (Excerpts), 1943-44Berlin Memories of Marcella Herrmann (Excerpt), Early 1940sStatement from Dr. Sophie Mayer (Excerpts), 1946Moses Moskowitz, “The Germans and the Jews: Postwar Report” (Excerpts), 1946ContributorsIndex

“This volume brings to light fresh material from hitherto neglected primary sources, and also makes available in English some findings only previously available to German readers. Especially valuable is the careful evaluation and comparison of reports about life in Nazi Germany from Nazi perpetrators, Jewish victims, and foreign bystanders.” · Geoffrey J. Giles, University of Florida