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Published March 2026 Forced Labor for Siemens in the Women’s Concentration Camp Ravensbrück
Reports from Contemporary Witnesses
International Friends Association of the Ravensbrück Memorial (Eds)
In 1942-1945, Siemens & Halske AG maintained an armaments factory adjacent to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, where up to 2,300 female prisoners were deployed in forced labor. This volume contains the testimonies of Ravensbrück survivors, shedding light on the system of forced labor in the context of the concentration camp
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
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Published February 2026
With a Penetrating Gaze from the Sidelines
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, and the History of Holocaust Historiography
Schlott, R. & Kansteiner, W. (eds)
Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews (1961) was a foundational text in the field of Holocaust historiography. Hilberg describes the persecution as a bureaucratic process involving the entire German society. This volume explores the origins of Hilberg’s study, debates in which it was implicated, its accomplishments and shortcomings.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2025
A History of the I.G. Farben Trial
Armament, Exploitation, Auschwitz
Lindner, S.
In this exacting examination of the history of the I.G. Farben trial, Stephan H. Lindner charts the build up and aftermath of this watershed event, in order to highlight its implications for understanding the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial complex on trial.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published September 2025
German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945
Lessons about Religion, Home, and Fatherland
Kennedy, K.
Analyzing the correlation between the educational system and ideas about religion, community, and nationhood, German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945 highlights how an investment in children’s moral and national education united the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi eras, providing a vital lens for charting the continuities and changes within German society.
Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Genocide History
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Published June 2025
Hammerstein’s Daughters
An Aristocratic Family Caught Between Tradition and Resistance
Paasche, G.
An enlightening chronicle of General Kurt von Hammerstein’s daughters, Marie Louise, Maria Therese, and Helga, and their attempts to thwart Hitler’s regime, this book provides an unrivalled insight into an overlooked history of tradition, resistance, adaptation, and rebellion in Nazi Germany.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published April 2025
Passing Misery
The Journal of a Forced Laborer in the Third Reich
Pasquiers, J. L. M. (au) & Thompson, R.L. (ed)
An illuminating translation of the journal of Jean Louis Mary Pasquiers, a former teacher and forced laborer, Passing Misery documents Pasquiers’ life within war-torn Europe, in unwilling service to the Nazi regime. In doing so, this book offers an unrivalled insight into the reality of collaboration and culpability during war.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2024
The Trial of a Nazi Doctor
Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver
Wisely, A.
The Trial of a Nazi Doctor documents the career, crimes, and prosecution of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor who tried to deflect his participation in the Nazi’s genocidal projects and juxtaposes them with a wide range of testimonials from witnesses including former camp inmates and Holocaust survivors.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2023
After Liberation
Toward a Sociology of the Shoah
Selected EssaysAdler, H. G.
This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of H.G. Adler’s most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and connected themes. Spanning his thought across three decades they focus on the fate of the ‘coerced’ human being and reflect on freedom, enslavement, terror, dread, charisma, loneliness, and ideology.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
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Published April 2023
The Burden of German History
A Transatlantic Life
Jarausch, K. H.
The Burden of Germany History is Konrad H Jarausch’s much anticipated transatlantic autobiography set against the development and transformation of German studies over the past half-century. Using his life story, Jarausch’s concurrent life in the US and Germany brings us a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History History: World War II
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Published April 2021
East German Film and the Holocaust
Ward, E.
By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2020
Bureaucracy, Work and Violence
The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
Nützenadel, A. (ed)
In Bureaucracy, Work and Violence, the Reich Ministry of Labor is for the first time systematically illuminated as the bureaucratic arm responsible for the implementation of the National Socialist work doctrine. Historians reveal through pioneering research that the classical administrative apparatuses were far more involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes than has long been suspected.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published November 2019
German Railroads, Jewish Souls
The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution
Browning, C. R., Hayes, P. & Hilberg, R.
This book centers around preeminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg’s landmark study of Nazi railways and their roles within the Jewish genocide. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and a comprehensive historical survey from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes, this is a rich and accessible introduction to a topic in Holocaust history that remains understudied even today.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History Transport Studies
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Published September 2019
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia
Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses
Gruner, W.
After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Czech and German authorities adopted radicalized anti-Jewish policies, including depriving Jews of their property, hauling them into forced labor, and deporting them to concentration camps. In this pioneering study, Wolf Gruner demonstrates that these proceedings were not only controlled by Berlin, but also driven forward by the Czech government and local authorities.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published September 2019
Testimonies of Resistance
Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando
Chare, N. & Williams, D. (eds)
As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, the Sonderkommando comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—both by themselves and by others—during and since the Holocaust.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published September 2019
A Sad Fiasco
Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908
Kreienbaum, J.
Comparative studies on concentration camps have tended to neglect the African colonial experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A Sad Fiasco delves deeper into the daily lives led in the colonial concentration camps in southern Africa and the motives behind the mass extinction of thousands of internees.
Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2019
Submerged on the Surface
The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945
Lutjens Jr., R. N.
Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in Nazi Germany. This book sheds light on the daily life of those who hid and on the city that was both the source of their persecution and the site of their survival.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published March 2019
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht
Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military
Sait, B.
Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals. This in-depth study reveals that military indoctrination was but one piece of the larger effort at the socialization of young men during the Nazi era.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2017
The Participants
The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Jasch, H.-C., & Kreutzmüller, C. (eds)
Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in modern history.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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Published January 2016
The Anatomy of Murder
Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
Hildebrandt, S.
Of the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received little attention. As historian and physician Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, anatomists progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression; in some cases, the traditional model of working with deceased bodies gave way to experimentation with the “future dead.”
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published November 2015
The Germans and the Holocaust
Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews
Schrafstetter, S. & Steinweis, A. E. (eds)
For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars, employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published August 2015
Final Sale in Berlin
The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945
Kreutzmüller, C.
Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its destruction in Nazi Berlin
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2013
A Fatal Balancing Act
The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945
Meyer, B.
“Beate Meyer has chosen to research a serious subject that is by any standard difficult and painful to confront in an honest way… The book is a careful, detailed study of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany.” · Canadian Journal of History
“[The author] keeps the focus on the individual without ever losing sight of the overall crime. This book…can be considered as an essential contribution to the history of the extermination of the German Jews.” · Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt
“Beate Meyer succeeds in producing a nearly complete picture of procedures and decisions within the organization. In addition she describes openly but not without empathy the diverse, often narrow perspectives and possibilities of responsible individuals in their respective situation.” · Sehepunkte
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published August 2012
Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography
Priemel, K. C. & Stiller, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion
Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919–1939
Wildt, M.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published July 2010
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Dilemmas and Responses
Nicosia, F. & Scrase, D. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
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Published July 2009
The Train Journey
Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust
Gigliotti, S.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Memory Studies Transport Studies
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Published May 2007
Robbery and Restitution
The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe
Dean, M., Goschler, C. & Ther, P. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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Published January 2006
The Women's Camp in Moringen
A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany 1936-1937
Herz, G.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published July 2005
Gray Zones
Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Petropolous, J. & Roth, J. (eds)
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published March 2005
Holocaust Monuments and National Memory
France and Germany since 1989
Carrier, P.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Heritage Studies
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Published January 2005
German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945
Haar, I. & Fahlbusch, M. (eds)
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2004
Networks of Nazi Persecution
Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust
Feldman, G. & Seibel, W. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published March 2004
Business and Industry in Nazi Germany
Nicosia, F.R. & Huener, J. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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Published November 2002
Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime
Hesse, H. (ed)
Subjects: Genocide History Anthropology of Religion
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Published May 2002
Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany
Origins, Practices, Legacies
Nicosia, F.R. & Huener, J. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published October 2000
War of Extermination
The German Military in World War II
Heer, H. & Naumann. K. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History
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Published September 2000
Shedding Light on the Darkness
A Guide to Teaching the Holocaust
Lauckner, N. & Jokiniemi, M.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies
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Published January 2000
National Socialist Extermination Policies
Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies
Herbert, U. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
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