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Today's Views of Nationalist Socialist Extermination Policies

Pages 61-78 | Published online: 02 Jul 2010

  • General Editor Omer Baitov, Rutgeis University. It was originally published in 1998, as Nationalsozialistische Vermchtungspolitik, 1939-1945: Neue Forschungen und Kontroversen , Frankfurt am Main : Fisher Taschenbuchverlag GmbH . This English language edition is Volume 2 of the series "War and Genocide,"
  • Goldhagen , Daniel Jonah . 1996 . Hitler's Willing Executioners New York
  • This issue was extensively dealt with in the 1960s by I.A. Alexander and Margarete Mitschedich (The Inability to Mourn: Principles of Collective Behavior, out of print); by Ralph Giordano (Die Zweite Schuld, out of print); by Jörg Friedrich (Die Kalte Amnestie, out of print); and more recently by Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer and His Battle with UK Truth (Vintage Books, 1996). The Mitscherlichs write "… It is illusory to assume that a young generation could discard the yoke of the past, abandon sacred traditions and prejudices […] if there were a prescription against the continuation of subliminal motivations, it would be the promotion of a new emancipation […] We are dealing with a colossus of guilt which resists such an orientation …."
  • AIy , Gotz and Roth , Karl Heinz . 2000 . Die restlose Erfassung. Volks-zahlen, Identifizieren, Nationaboziatismus , 176 SF 18 Frankfurt am Main : Fischer-TaschenbuchVerlag . The study has been re-issued:
  • Musial , Bogdan . 1999 . a Polish-German historian working in Warsaw who is well known within Germany for his strong critique of the exhibit "Crimes of the Wehrmacht" has recently explored this phase at some length in a new book Deutsche Zivuvenvaltung und Judenverfolgung im Generalgouvernement , 435 Harassowirtz Verlag . DM58. Musial blames the retreating Russian army and the atrocities they committed for having-indirectly-caused the subsequent German Wehrmacht crimes. According to Musial, 20,000-30,000 Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, and other counter-revolutionary enemies of Russia were murdered by the NKVD in the summer of 1941 before they retreated East. According to his theory, the German Wehrmacht soldiers were profoundly shocked to see proof of such enormous cruelty committed against innocent people by the enemy that they immediately proceeded to do likewise.
  • Herbert's , Ulrich . 1996 . “ important book "Best" ” . In Biographische Studien über Radikalismus Weltanschauung und Vernunft, 1903-1989 , Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger . About whom see ), ISBN 3-8012-5019-9
  • 1988 . The letter is reproduced on pages 190-3 of Detlev Qaussen's Vomjudenhass zum Antisemitismus, , 2nd edition , Luchlerhand : Darmstadt . ), ISBN 3-630-61677-1
  • 1993 . Stationen , Wiesbaden : Founder Verlag .
  • 2001 . The Art of Darkness , Houston, TX : University Trace Press .
  • On 6 April 2000, The New York Times published a relatively small advertisement containing an "Appeal" to the Bavarian and German governments opposing "racist databases" assembled by the Bavarian police on Sinti and Roma. The protest was signed by Simon Wiesenthal, Ignatz Bubis, Gregory Peck, Armin Müller-Stahl, Klaus Staeck, Siegfried Lenz, Ralph Giordanno, Michael Verhoeven, Vanessa Redgrave, and many other German and international cultural luminaries and human rights activists. "[] during the 1990s the Bavarian police registered Sinti and Roma on special police forms without reason or legal basis, justifying this practice as vorbeugende VerbrechensbekSmpfung (preventive activities against potential criminals) because they believed that "Gypsies" could become a public danger. Parenthetically, this is the exact language used by the police in the Nazi period." From: Sybil Milton, Siftfi and Rama in Twentieth-Century Austria and Germany (Washington, DQ in German Studies Review xDÉ(2) (May 2000).
  • Especially the catalog for the "Crimes of the Wehrmacht" exhibit. It contains hundreds of pictures, letters, documents, in Vernichtungskrieg, VeAnAm Eá Wehrmacht 1941-1944 (Hamburg, Hamburger Vedagsges mbH: Institut fur Sozialforschung), 218 pp. ISBN 3930908-24-7. In her new book Ikonen der Vernichtung [Icons of Extermination] (Berlin: Akademie Verlag), ISBN 3-05-003211, DM 98, the author Cornelia Brink develops an interesting theory concerning the post-war use of photographs from National Socialist concentration camps after 1945. She coins the expression "failed optical denazification" and reports that-according to her research-the viewers' reaction equated "seeing" with ocing seen and, by way of denying facts and distancing themselves Hum this painful past history, left the issues mm-aH, uncomprchended and unidentified. Consequently, barbed wire, watchtower, chimneys barracks, crematoria and other symbols or the Shoah remain alien, frozen visions.
  • Grüner , Wolf . 1997 . Der geschlossene Arbeitseinsatz deutscher Juden: Zur Zwangsarbeit ab Element der Verfolgung, 1938-1943 , Berlin : Metropol Verlag . In the towns where I am intimately acquainted with the events of that time (Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Mainz, Giessen, Koblenz and others), there was no compensation paid for this work from the respective "employers" whenever the work was done on behalf of a public institution-cleaning streets, shoveling snow, tending the gardens of the Gestapo building, cleaning railroad cars, streetcars, buses, automobiles, running errands. In all these cases, minimum wages had to be paid out of the coffers of the local Jewish Congregation. Private employers and privately owned factories did pay their Jewish laborers at the existing minimum rate scale. Betw. RM 3.-and 4.-for women, RM 4.-for men. Also see

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