DOKUMENTE über die BEHANDLUNG DER JUDEN durch das DRITTE REICH - Documents on the Treatment of Jews by the Third Reich. Verlag Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland - Published by the General Weekly Newspaper of Jews in Germany - a collection of official Nazi documents revealing the deliberate extermination plan the Nazis planned and executed against the Jews. Düsseldorf 1958. German.
"The documents published here on the treatment of Jews in the Third Reich chronicle a story of suffering that is still unmatched. They deal with a notoriously cruel and cynical ideology that turned people into statistics and murder into a craft. But it is precisely these primeval sounds of fanaticism that make the events, which grew out of diabolical demons like poisonous vermin, even more shocking. Without pathos, without sentimentality, and even without understandable and ultimately comforting sadness, the events awaken again and it must be said "never again". (From the introduction by Karl Marx).
A special issue published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of November 9, 1938 - Kristallnacht, with the aim of commemorating again the "documents of eternal shame" of what the Nazis did to the Jews, in light of the forgetting and denial of the Holocaust events that began to emerge among politicians and also among young people in the 1950s. The booklet quotes the most terrible documents of the extermination orders against the Jews issued by senior Nazis before and during the war. Starting with the difficult passages written in "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler, followed by excerpts from the Nazi press in which senior members of the Nazi government explicitly call for the extermination of Jews: sentences such as "the Jew must die" published in the daily press in Germany as a necessary conclusion from the Nazi ideology that sees in the Jew an entity that "dismantles and pollutes the order of nations", and finally the execution - the official documents in which the order was given for the mass extermination of Jews, such as a document sent by Himmler to the head of the Security Police and SD in Berlin in 1943: "I have ordered a large number of copies of the book 'The Jewish Murders' and distributed them to the Standartenführer. I am sending you a few hundred copies so that you can send them to your task forces, but mainly to the men...". The documents contain the explicit instructions given to commanders regarding the looting and persecution of Jews on Kristallnacht, the explicit decrees for the expropriation of Jewish businesses, the explicit instructions signed by the heads of the Nazi government regarding the extermination plan itself, horrific clauses in the "Punishment Instructions" against Jews given to SS commanders after the conquest of Poland, excerpts from Hitler's speech in January 1939 in which he outlines the "final solution", quotes from Goebbels' speeches calling for the persecution of Jews, ongoing reports from official documents by SS leaders on the implementation of the order to exterminate Jews during the war years, official instructions on the deportation of Jews to camps, including lists of the total amount of money confiscated from Jews in the various conquered cities, documents and explicit declarations in which SS leaders admit to the extermination of millions of Jews (the declaration of the head of the Wehrmacht High Command Wilhelm Keitel at the Nuremberg Trials is quoted, in which he explicitly says: "About four million Jews were killed in the various extermination camps, while another two million died in other ways..."), documents containing deportation and murder orders for the Jews of Belgium, the "resettlement" plan and the preservation of Jewish property for future generations after the extermination of the Jewish people planned by the Nazis, and many more.
44 pages. Very good condition.
