This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in a total of 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. The work illustrates the contemporary contexts, the dynamics, and the intermediate stages of the political and social processes that led to this unprecedented mass crime. It can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and all other interested parties. The edition comprises authentic testimony by persecutors, victims, and onlookers. These testimonies are furnished with academic annotations and the vast majority of them are published here for the first time in English. Volume 1 documents the persecution of the Jews between 1933 and 1937. The chronologically-arranged written sources reveal how the disenfranchisement and social isolation of the Jews in Germany was driven forward, and which role terror, calculations on the part of the state, and the indifference of very many Germans played.
Biografie (Wolf Gruner)
Wolf Gruner, geboren 1960 in Berlin (Ost), Studium der Geschichtswissenschaften, 1994 Dr. phil., anschließend wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter u.a. am Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung (TU Berlin), Gastwissenschaftler und -professor in Israel, Japan und den USA. Zur Zeit Stipendiat der S. Fischer Stiftung am Institut für Zeitgeschichte / Abteilung Berlin. Autor mehrerer Bücher zur nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung der Juden.