The Realization of the Unthinkable: the (Final Solution of the Jewish Question in the Third Reich

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Mommsen
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich

scholarly journals Income Tax for 1939 and Occupation of Upper Silesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1 ENGLISH ONLINE VERSION) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Konrad Graczyk
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
Upper Silesia ◽  
Legislation And Jurisprudence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Proposed Regulation

The article concerns the attitude of the occupation administration of the Third Reich introduced in Upper Silesia in September 1939 to the issue of income tax for 1939. The article discusses the analysis of Polish legislation and jurisprudence in the field of tax law carried out by German officials, the proposed regulation, its motives and the final solution. The considerations concerning Polish income tax were preceded by the presentation of analogous measures taken by Germany in connection with the incorporation of Austria and the Sudetenland.

scholarly journals Ideological Transfers and Bureaucratic Entanglements: Nazi ‘Experts’ on the ‘Jewish Question’ and the Romanian-German Relations, 1940–1944

Fascism ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-100
Author(s):  
Constantin Iordachi ◽  
Ottmar Traşcă
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
World War ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Second World

This article focuses on the transfer of the Nazi legal and ideological model to East Central Europe and its subsequent adoption, modification and fusion with local legal-political practices. To illustrate this process, we explore the evolution of the anti-Semitic policy of the Antonescu regime in Romania (1940–1944) from an under-researched perspective: the activity of the Nazi ‘advisors on the Jewish Question’ dispatched to Bucharest. Based on a wide range of published and unpublished archival sources, we attempt to provide answers to the following questions: To what extent did the Third Reich shape Romania’s anti-Semitic polices during the Second World War? What was the role played by the Nazi advisors in this process? In answering these questions, special attention is devoted to the activity of the Hauptsturmführer ss Gustav Richter, who served as Berater für Juden und Arisierungsfragen [advisor to the Jewish and Aryanization questions] in the German Legation in Bucharest from 1st of April 1941 until 23 August 1944. We argue that, by evaluating the work of the Nazi experts in Bucharest, we can better grasp the immediate as well as the longer-term objectives followed by the Third Reich in Romania on the ‘Jewish Question,’ and the evolution of this issue within the context of the Romanian-German diplomatic relations and political interactions. By taking into account a variety of internal and external factors and by reconstructing the complicated web of political and bureaucratic interactions that led to the crystallization of General Ion Antonescu’s policy towards the Jews, we are able to provide a richer and more nuanced analysis of German-Romanian relations during the Second World War.

Forschungen Zur Judenfrage: A Notorious Journal and Some of its Contributors

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-415
Author(s):  
Reinhard Markner
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Many

AbstractAmong the many publishing ventures of the “Reichsinstitut für die Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands,” the journal Forschungen zur Judenfrage (1936–1944) has gained most notoriety. In its nine volumes, various aspects of the “Jewish question,” ranging from the Jews in antiquity to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, were dealt with from a strictly National Socialist point of view. The ambitious project proved to be a failure even before the Third Reich collapsed. While some of the journal's contributors managed to pursue their academic careers in post-war West Germany, its founder, Walter Frank, committed suicide in 1945.

scholarly journals A Devil of the Details: The Life and Crimes of Nazi Wilhelm Frick

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Kost
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Instrumental Role

Wilhelm Frick, the Minister of the Interior in the Third Reich, has never garnered the same notoriety as some of his Nazi peers—in spite of the fact that he played an instrumental role in Jewish persecution. From his co-authoring of the Nuremberg Laws to his involvement in the Third Reich’s police and concentration camps, Frick’s background in law, policing, and politics helped him become a lethal and influential tool for the Nazi Party. This paper argues that Frick served as a judicial architect of the Holocaust and facilitator of the Final Solution, who has—somehow—remained   largely unknown.

Christopher R. Browning. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942, with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, and Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2004. xii, 615 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Engel
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Official Policy ◽  
Crucial Problem ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Lincoln University

Christopher Browning is perhaps most widely known for his seminal study of the motives of the “ordinary men” who perpetrated the systematic murder of European Jewry at the behest of the Third Reich. Nevertheless, in the past two decades he has devoted much of his attention to studying the processes and decisions that led the Reich to make systematic mass murder its official policy and to provide the impetus and means for its implementation. Now he has brought his empirical findings and interpretations together in a single volume that provides the most rigorous, cogent, and lucid analysis currently available of this crucial problem in the history of the encounter between Nazi Germany and the Jews.

scholarly journals The Third Reich Documents on the ?vian Conference of 1938: Conniving Indifference of World Powers towards Nazis’ Anti-Semitic Policies

2018 ◽  
pp. 717-730
Author(s):  
Boris L. Khavkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Modern World ◽  
80Th Anniversary ◽  
The Third ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Refugee Problem

The year 2018 is the 80th anniversary of the international conference on refugees held on July 5-16, 1938 in a French town of ?vian. Despite great significance of the refugee problem in the modern world, the history of the ?vian conference remains on the periphery of historical science. There are no studies of the topic in Russian scholarship; the Western historiography on the conniving indifference of the world powers towards Nazi anti-Semitic policies, which resulted in the Holocaust, is scarce. The object of this study is the 1938 international ?vian conference on refugees and its reflection in sources and scholarship. The subject of the study is previously unpublished German documents on the ?vian conference stored in the fond of the ‘Chief Directorate for Imperial Security’ in the Russian State Military Archive (RGVA). The purpose of the article is to give a new interpretation of the role of Germany in the ?vian conference drawing on German documents on the ?vian conference from the fonds of the RGVA and to show the historical significance of the conference for the Nazis’ turn towards the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. The tasks of the article are to use traditional methods of historical research to study new German sources on the topic of the study. The documents have been translated in Russian in order to put them into source and literary context and to provide their scientific interpretation. For the first time in Russian historiography, the article notes that at the ?vian conference the German Jews submitted a memorandum with a 4-year plan of emigration of 200,000 Jews from Germany, but their action-oriented proposals were buried in platitudes. The conference participants’ speeches demonstrated the unwillingness of the majority of countries to open their borders to refugees from the Third Reich. The study concludes that the failure of the ?vian conference opened the door to the Holocaust. The significance of the study is due not just to the 80th anniversary of the ?vian conference, but also to the urgency of the refugee problem in Europe and worldwide.

scholarly journals The Nazi Madagascar Plan in Hitler’s Agenda

2020 ◽  
pp. 451-466
Author(s):  
Boris L. Khavkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
80Th Anniversary ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Red Army ◽  
The Third Reich

2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the 80th anniversary of Nazi plans to deport 4 million European Jews to the island of Madagascar. Despite the relevance of the Holocaust history, this page of it has been little studied: perhaps because these plans have remained on paper; the literature on the Madagascar Project (both Polish and German) is very scarce. Object of this study is the history of the plan of deportation of European Jews to Madagascar. The subject of research is a document, previously unpublished in Russia: “Madagascar Plan” of the Third Reich (1940). The purpose of the publication is to present this source to the Russian scientific community, the archival community, and students. The objectives of the publication are to introduce this new German-language source into Russian historiography on the Holocaust by translating it into Russian; to show its historical significance in the escalation of the Nazi plans for the “final solution of the Jewish question.” The study concludes that the failure of the Madagascar Project opened a gate for the “final solution of the Jewish question” by physical destruction of 6 million European Jews. The country that saved the European Jews from total annihilation was the Soviet Union with its Red Army, which liberated the world from the Nazism.

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