The Third Reich Sourcebook (Volume 47) (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the “German Renaissance” promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror—World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With __The Third Reich Sourcebook__, editors Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman present a comprehensive collection of newly translated documents drawn from wide-ranging primary sources, documenting both the official and unofficial cultures of National Socialist Germany from its inception to its defeat and collapse in 1945. Framed with introductions and annotations by the editors, the documents presented here include official government and party pronouncements, texts produced within Nazi structures, such as the official Jewish Cultural League, as well as documents detailing the impact of the horrors of National Socialism on those who fell prey to the regime, especially Jews and the handicapped. With thirty chapters on ideology, politics, law, society, cultural policy, the fine arts, high and popular culture, science and medicine, sexuality, education, and other topics, __The Third Reich Sourcebook__ is the ultimate collection of primary sources on Nazi Germany. "This book is a collection of documents, mostly translated from the German, that covers the entire Third Reich, from the beginnings of National Socialism in Munich in 1919, through the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, and ultimately the defeat of the Third Reich. It is wide-ranging, covering the core doctrine of anti-Semitism, education, German youth, women and marriage, science, health, the Church, literature, visual arts, music, the body, industry, sports, and the resistance"-- Provided by publisher Part one. The beginnings of National Socialism -- Part two. The National Socialist worldview -- Part three. Antisemitism : the core doctrine -- Part four. Nationalizing German youth -- Part five. The racial community -- Part six. The churches -- Part seven. National Socialism and the arts -- Part eight. Work, industry, modernity -- Part nine. Body culture, sports, public amusements -- Part ten. War, conquest, and the annihilation of the Jews -- Part eleven. Resistance -- Part 12. Defeat