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Legislating The Holocaust » (New Edition)

Book cover image of Legislating The Holocaust by Karl Schleunes

Authors: Karl Schleunes, Bernhard Losener
ISBN-13: 9780813337753, ISBN-10: 0813337755
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westview Press
Date Published: May 2001
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Karl Schleunes

Karl A. Schleunes is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy Toward German Jews, 1933-1939. He is currently working on a book on the German background to the Holocaust which is to be part of series titled “A Comprehensive History Holocaust” sponsored by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Institute in Jerusalem.

Book Synopsis

The Loesener memoir offers a rare insider’s view into the functioning of the Nazi system and Schleunes’s essay provides an analysis of how Loesener’s activities served to promote as well as hinder that functioning.

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
1	The Enigma of Bernhard Loesener--Nazi Bureaucrat	3
	Notes	29
2	At the Desk of Racial Affairs in the Reich Ministry of the Interior	33
	Introductory Remarks	33
	How I Came to Hold the Desk for Racial Affairs	35
	Up Until the Nuremberg Laws	37
	The Origin of the "Nuremberg Laws" of 15 September 1935	46
	The Meaning of the Nuremberg Laws	52
	The Two "First Decrees" to the Nuremberg Laws of 14 November 1935	56
	How Some Provisions of the "First Decrees" Took a Wrong Turn	61
	Privileged Mixed Marriages	65
	The 1938 Pogrom and Spread of Persecution	68
	The Beginning of Forced Emigration	74
	The War Years	75
	The So-Called Final Solution of the Jewish Question	79
	The Jewish Star	87
	The Treatment of Individual Cases	95
	The End of My Work in the Ministry	99
	My Arrest by the Gestapo	101
	Notes	104
3	Bernhard Loesener's Testimony Before the Nuremberg Tribunal	111
Appendix	Nazi Legislation	153
	Selected Bibliography	181
	Index	185