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11 of the Best Books and Articles on: Other Victims of the Holocaust

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1.

The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution » Read Now
by Henry Friedlander. 421 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Entire Library
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From 'Mercy Death' to Genocide: Julian Reed-Purvis Examines the Origins and Consequences of Nazi Euthanasia, in History Review » Read Now
by Julian Reed-Purvis. 4 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans ("Paying the Price of Resistance: Jehovah's Witnesses" begins on p. 238) » Read Now
by Eric A. Johnson. 638 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Nazi Terror tackles the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship head on by focusing on the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work. Based on years of research in Gestapo archives, on more than 1,100 Gestapo and "special court" case files, and on surveys and interviews with...
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Nazi Terror tackles the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship head on by focusing on the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work. Based on years of research in Gestapo archives, on more than 1,100 Gestapo and "special court" case files, and on surveys and interviews with German perpetrators, Jewish victims and ordinary Germans who experienced the Third Reich firsthand, Johnson's book settles many nagging questions about who, exactly, was responsible for what, who knew what, and when they knew it. Nazi Terror is the most fine-grained portrait we may ever have of the mechanism of terror in a dictatorship.
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Non-Jews and the Holocaust, in First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life » Read Now
by Peggy Obrecht. 2 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies » Read Now
by Guenter Lewy. 310 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity. They were branded as "asocials," harassed, and eventually herded into...
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Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity. They were branded as "asocials," harassed, and eventually herded into concentration camps where many thousands were killed. But until now the story of their persecution has either been overlooked or distorted. In The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, Guenter Lewy draws upon thousands of documents--many never before used--from German and Austrian archives to provide the most comprehensive and accurate study available of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi regime. Lewy traces the escalating vilification of the Gypsies as the Nazis instigated a widespread crackdown on the "work-shy" and "itinerants." But he shows that Nazi policy towards Gypsies was confused and changeable. At first, local officials persecuted gypsies, and those who behaved in gypsy-like fashion, for allegedly anti-social tendencies. Later, with the rise of race obsession, Gypsies were seen as a threat to German racial purity, though Himmler himself wavered, trying to save those he considered "pure Gypsies" descended from Aryan roots in India. Indeed, Lewy contradicts much existing scholarship in showing that, however much the Gypsies were persecuted, there was no general program of extermination analogous to the "final solution" for the Jews. Exploring in heart-rending detail the fates of individual Gypsies and their families, The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies makes an important addition to our understanding both of the history of this mysterious people and of all facets of the Nazi terror.
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National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria » Read Now
by Gilya Gerda Schmidt, Erika Thurner. 228 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Originally published in German, Erika Thurner's NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND GYPSIES IN AUSTRIA is the ground-breaking study of Nazi policy toward Gypsies during the Third Reich. The recent upsurge of anti-Gypsy violence in Austria illustrates both the horror of the treatment of Gypsy tribes and the timeliness of this volume. Illustrated.
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The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True, Life- and Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps » Read Now
by Heinz Heger. 120 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Bent Straight: The Destruction of Self in Martin Sherman's Bent, in Journal of European Studies » Read Now
by Eric Sterling. 13 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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Answering for the Past, Shaping the Future: In Memory of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in The Ecumenical Review » Read Now
by Wolfgang Huber. 8 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library
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Blacks under the Swastika: A Research Note, in The Journal of Negro History » Read Now
by Robert W. Kestling. 15 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath (Chap. 9 "Polish Catholics and the Jews during the Holocaust") » Read Now
by Joshua D. Zimmerman. 324 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This collection of essays attempts to reassess the existing historiography of Polish-Jewish relations just before, during and after World War II. Topics covered include the pre-war legacy of anti-semitism; and the official Polish response to the Nazi Final Solution.