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347–8

WVHA 316, 379, 414

Slovakia 285, 345, 364, 370, 404–5

SS Brigades 214, 215, 218, 250–1

deportation of Jews from 275, 295–6,

SS Cavalry Brigade 218, 219–21, 223–4, 251

308, 318, 324 – 6, 334, 328, 405

Stahlecker, Walther 105, 152, 232–3, 297

Gypsies in 419

Stahlecker Report 193

and transport moratorium 334

Stahlhelm 53, see Steel Helmet Veterans’

Ustredna Zidov 326

Organization

Slutsk: Reserve Police Battalion 11 in 237–8,

Stangl, Franz 340

240, 383

Stapel, Wilhelm 20, 23

smuggling 166, 169, 333

state terror 97

Sobibor extermination camp 280, 295–6,

Steel Helmet Veterans’ Organization

309, 322, 332, 340, 387, 411

(Stahlhelm) 20, 25, 445 n. 94

as concentration camp 379

sterilization 46–50, 93, 176, 135, 137

deportations to 337, 378–9

of Gypsies 49, 50, 420–1

extension of gas chambers in 334

Sterilization Law 40, 46–8

liquidation of 382

alterations to 48

removal of traces 410

psychiatric labels 47

Slovakian Jews 325–6

stock market crash (1873) 10

social misfits, see asocials

Storch, Hillel 416

644

Index

Stralsund Mental Hospital 138, 477 n. 44

Trial of the Major War Criminals,

Strasser, Gregor 19

Nuremberg 187

Streckenbach, Bruno 155, 187, 188, 225

Trunk, Isaiah 489 n. 126

Streicher, Julius 36, 59, 108

Tschenstochau ghetto 337

Streim, Alfred 188, 248

Tuka, Vojtech 295, 326, 328, 404

Stresa Front 55

Tunisia 390

Stroop, Jürgen 377

Turner, Harald 529 n. 91

Stuckart, Wilhelm 59, 64, 310, 473 n. 13

student organizations 21

Uebelhör, Friedrich 271

Stülpnagel, Karl-Heinrich von 242–3

Ukraine 208, 226, 346, 349, 350

Stürmabteilung, see SA

Himmler’s inspection tour in 229

Stürmer, Der 56–7

local voluntary troops 239

Stutthof concentration camp 414–15, 418

murder of mentally ill 241

Süddeutsches Monatshefte 23

see also Lemberg (Lvov): Lemberg (Lvov)

Sudeten Crisis 106

extermination camp; Lemberg (Lvov)

Sweden 416

ghetto

synagogues: attacks on 18, 41, 56, 104,

Union Générale des Israélites de France

107–8, 110, 114

272

Szàlasy, Ferenc 410

universities 76, 117, 128–9

Sztojay, Dominik 371, 396, 405, 408–9

attacks on Jews 22

Sztojay government 407

restrictions on number of Jewish

students 39

Tannenberg League 14

student organizations 21

Tarnopol pogrom 194, 195

Upper Silesia 146, 155, 159, 291–2, 343, 345

Tax Adjustment Law (October 1934): and

concentration camps 318–19

emigration 65–6

liquidation of ghettos 380

taxes 119–20

see also Nisko Project

emigration tax 120

Upper Silesia Accord 69

wealth tax on Jews 120

Ustasha regime 365, 389

theatre 39

Ustredna Zidov, Slovakia 326

exclusion of Jewish influence on 84

Theresienstadt 321

Vaada (Jewish Aid and Rescue

deportations to 323–4, 386–7, 405

Committee) 408, 412

old people’s ghetto 323, 324

Vaivara concentration camp 385, 415

Thessaloniki 275

Vallat, Xavier 272

Thierack, Otto 543 n. 1

Van Pelt, Robert Jan 281–2

Thomas, Georg 212, 271, 494 n. 7

Vatican 326

Thuringian Regional Parliament 15

Veesenmayer, Edmund 404, 406, 409

Times, The

Vichy goverment

articles on events in Germany 447 n. 11

Commissariat for the Jews 272

Hitler interview 17

Statut des Juifs 272

Tiso, Joseph 295

Vienna 99

Todt Organisation 381

anti-Jewish riots 108

Topf & Söhne 281, 282

deportation of Jews 152

Trampedach, Friedrich 297

Viking League 14

Transnistria 228, 230, 252, 419

Vileyka 221, 251, 346, 347, 383

transport moratorium 323, 324, 333–4,

Vilnius: resistance movements 385

338

Vilnius ghettos 236, 384

Trawniki men 330, 338, 339

Vitebsk ghetto 223

Treblinka extermination camp 280,

Volhynia-Podolia 349, 350, 351, 352

339 – 41, 411

resistance in 354

deportations to 324, 337, 392

völkisch movement 12–14, 20–1

removal of traces 410

Catholic Church and 23

temporary closure 340

Protestant Church and 22–3

Index

645

Völkische Beobachter 18

welfare services: Jewish community

volksdeutscher Selbstschutz (German Self-

and 72–3

Defence Corps) 145

Welzer, Harald 440 n. 20

Westerkamp, Eberhard 293

Wachsturmbann Eimann (Eimann Special

Western Allies: negotiations with Nazi

Guard Division) 138

regime 411–12

Wächter, Otto 293

Wetzel (Adviser on Racial Issues in the

Waffen-SS 145, 184, 185

Eastern Ministry) 279–80, 297

Wagner (Quartermaster General) 249

White Ruthenia 346, 347, 349, 382

Wagner, Adolf 48

ghettos 383

Wagner, Eduard 182

Winter Relief Organization of the German

Wagner, Gerhard 59, 74

People 73

Wagner, Horst 404

Wirth, Christian 262, 280

Wagner, Josef 159

and Aktion Reinhardt 340

Wagner, Robert 172

and temporary closure of Belzec 331

Walbaum, Jost 293

Wisliceny, Dieter 68, 326, 371, 391, 412

Walk, Joseph 134

Wohltat (Ministerial Director, Reich

Wannsee Conference 305–10, 357

Economics Ministry) 125–6

War Refugee Board 413

Wolff, Karl 334

Warsaw ghetto 159, 161, 166, 167, 321, 324,

Wurm, Paul 289

333, 489 n. 126, 524 n.38

WVHA (SS Business and Administration

concentration camp in 376

Head Office) 316, 379, 414

deportations to Treblinka 376

Final Solution 335–7

Yahil, Leni 487 n. 101

Frank and 175

Yanov ghetto 350–1

Jewish Councils in 336

Young German Order (Jungdeutscher

uprising 377–8, 401

Orden) 13–14

Warthegau 138, 155, 156, 264, 343–4

deportations from 159, 174

ZAL Plaszow (Plaszow labour camp) 376,

Final Solution in 290–1

382

forced labour camps 380

Zapp (commando leader) 189

mentally ill, murder of 138

Zeitschel, Carltheo 274, 329, 396

Warthegau ghettos 160

Zentralestelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen

Warthenau ghetto 380

zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer

weapons: ban on Jews owning 98, 117

Verbrechen (Central Office for the

Wehrmacht 180, 182, 345, 346

Investigation of Nazi Crimes) 8

Armaments Inspection 341–2

Zentralestelle für jüdische Auswanderung,

and criminal offences 183

see Central Office for Jewish

and ghettos 212

Emigration

mass murders in Soviet Union 242–7

Zhitomir 348, 349–50

and pogroms 194

Zhitomir ghetto 224, 226, 518 n. 181

and prisoners of war 249

Ziegler, Hans Severus 82

and reprisals 246

Zimmermann, Michael 517 n. 174

retaliatory actions 301

Zionist Organization for Germany 43, 44, 105

Weiss, Aharon 169–70

Zionists 377

Weissmandel, Michael Dor 326

Zlocow pogrom 194

Weizsäcker (Secretary of State) 404

ZOB (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa,

welfare benefits: as indication of ‘social

Jewish combat organization) 377

misfits’ 49

Zyklon B gas 281, 345, 415

welfare organizations: autonomous Jewish

ZZW (Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy, Jewish

sector and 88

Military Association) 377

Document Outline

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Historical Background: Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic

PART I: RACIAL PERSECUTION, 1933�1939

1. The Displacement of the Jews from Public Life, 1933�1934

2. Segregation and Comprehensive Discrimination, 1935�1937

3. Interim Conclusions: The Removal of Jews from German Society, the Formation of the National Socialist �People�s Community�, and its Consequences for Jewish Life in Germany

4. The Intensification of the Racial Persecution of Non-Jewish Groups by the Police Apparatus, 1936�1937

5. Comprehensive Deprivation of Rights and Forced Emigration, late 1937�1939

6. The Politics of Organized Expulsion

PART II: THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, 1939�1941

7. The Persecution of Jews in the Territory of the Reich, 1939�1940

8. German Occupation and the Persecution of the Jews in Poland, 1939�1940/1941: The First Variant of a �Territorial Solution�

9. Deportations

PART III: MASS EXECUTIONS OF JEWS IN THE OCCUPIED SOVIET ZONES, 1941

10. Laying the Ground for a War of Racial Annihilation

11. The Mass Murder of Jewish Men

12. The Transition from Anti-Semitic Terror to Genocide

13. Enforcing the Annihilation Policy: Extending the Shootings to the Whole Jewish Population

PART IV: GENESIS OF THE FINAL SOLUTION ON A EUROPEAN SCALE, 1941

14. Plans for a Europe-Wide Deportation Programme after the Start of Barbarossa

15. Autumn 1941: Beginning of the Deportations and Regional Mass Murders

16. The Wannsee Conference

PART V: THE EXTERMINATION OF THE EUROPEAN JEW, 1942�1945

17. The Beginning of the Extermination Policy on a European Scale in 1942

18. The Further Development of the Policy of Extermination after the Turning of the War in 1942�1943: Continuation of the Murders and Geographical Expansion of the Deportations

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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