The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust (Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context) PDF
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■ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Documenting Life and Destruction Holocaust Sources in Context SERIES EDITOR Jürgen Matthäus CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Jan Lambertz DOCUMENTING LIFE AND DESTRUCTION HOLOCAUST SOURCES IN CONTEXT Th is groundbreaking series provides a new perspective on history using fi rst- hand accounts of the lives of those who suff ered through the Holocaust, those who perpetrated it, and those who witnessed it as bystanders. Th e United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies presents a wide range of documents from diff erent archival holdings, expanding knowledge about the lives and fates of Holocaust victims and making these resources broadly available to the general public and scholarly communities for the fi rst time. Books in the Series 1. Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume I, 1933–1938, Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Roseman (2010) 2. Children during the Holocaust, Patricia Heberer (2011) 3. Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume II, 1938–1940, Alexandra Garbarini with Emil Kerenji, Jan Lambertz, and Avinoam Patt (2011) 4. Th e Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia, Wendy Lower (2011) 5. Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume III, 1941–1942, Jürgen Matthäus with Emil Kerenji, Jan Lambertz, and Leah Wolfson (2013) 6. The Holocaust in Hungary: Evolution of a Genocide, Zoltán Vági, László Csősz, and Gábor Kádár (2013) 7. War, Pacifi cation, and Mass Murder, 1939: Th e Einsatzgruppen in Poland, Jürgen Matthäus, Jochen Böhler, and Klaus-Michael Mallman (2014) 8. Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume IV, 1942–1943, Emil Kerenji (2015) 9. Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume V, 1944–1946, Leah Wolfson (2015) 10. Th e Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust, Jürgen Matthäus and Frank Bajohr (2015) A project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Sara J. Bloomfield Director Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Paul A. Shapiro Director Jürgen Matthäus Director, Applied Research under the auspices of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council Peter Hayes, Chair Doris L. Bergen Sara Horowitz Alvin H. Rosenfeld Richard Breitman Steven T. Katz Menachem Z. Rosensaft Christopher R. Browning William S. Levine George D. Schwab David Engel Deborah E. Lipstadt Michael A. Stein Zvi Y. Gitelman Wendy Lower Jeff rey Veidlinger Paul Hanebrink Michael R. Marrus James E. Young John T. Pawlikowski Th is publication has been made possible by support from Th e Blum Family Foundation and Th e Curt E. and Else Silberman Fund Documenting Life and Destruction Holocaust Sources in Context THE POLITICAL DIARY OF ALFRED ROSENBERG AND THE ONSET OF THE HOLOCAUST Jürgen Matthäus and Frank Bajohr Edited by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the Zentrum für Holocaust- Studien at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich Advisory Committee: Christopher R. Browning David Engel Sara Horowitz Steven T. Katz Alvin H. Rosenfeld Rowman & Littlefi eld in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2015 For USHMM: Project Manager: Mel Hecker Translators: Kathleen Luft, Jan Lambertz Researcher: Holly Robertson Huff nagle Map: Peter Palm Published by Rowman & Littlefi eld 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com Front cover: Alfred Rosenberg in Paris, November 1940, USHMMPA WS#75932. Copyright © 2015 by Rowman & Littlefi eld British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Matthäus, Jürgen, 1959– Th e political diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the onset of the Holocaust / Jürgen Matthäus and Frank Bajohr. pages cm. — (Holocaust sources in context) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4422-5167-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4422-5168-7 (ebook) All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. ™ Th e paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America German-occupied territories in Eastern Europe, 1941–1942 (Peter Palm/Berlin) Contents Map vii Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xv Editors’ Note xvii PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ALFRED ROSENBERG AND HIS DIARY 1 PART II: ALFRED ROSENBERG’S DIARY 1934–1944 17 PART III: RELATED DOCUMENTS 353 PART IV: A “FINAL SOLUTION” IN “THE EAST”: ROSENBERG AND THE “JEWISH QUESTION” 413 Ideology Applied: Rosenberg’s Antisemitism and the Nazi System 413 New Opportunities: Operation Barbarossa and the Onset of Genocide 432 A “Final Solution” in “the East”: Rosenberg and the Holocaust 447 From Selective Memory to Lost Record: Th e Postwar Fate of Rosenberg’s Diary Notes 468 List of Related Documents 481 Bibliography 485 Index 491 About the Editors 509 ix
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