- History and Memory: Reflections on Teaching the Holocaust — Charles A. Burris Article
- War Crimes, the Holocaust, and Today’s National Security State — Charles Burris article
- Unseasonable Truths: American Racism and Nazi Germany — Amazon book/DVD list
- Nazism: Ideas Have Consequences — Amazon book/DVD list
- COMBATING HOLOCAUST DENIAL: EVIDENCE OF THE HOLOCAUST PRESENTED AT NUREMBERG
- The Historiography of Genocide — Edited by Dan Stone
- The Historiography of the Holocaust — Edited by Dan Stone
- The Destruction of the European Jews — Book by Raul Hilberg
- The Gestapo: Power and Terror in the Third Reich — Book by Carsten Dams and Michael Stolle
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland — Book by Christopher R. Browning
- The Eternal Jew — Nazi Propaganda Feature Film
The Eternal Jew (1940) is a virulently antisemitic German Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary. The film’s title in German is Der Ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the “Wandering Jew” in medieval folklore. At the insistence of Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, the film was directed by Fritz Hippler. The screenplay is credited to Eberhard Taubert. The film consists of feature and documentary footage combined with materials filmed shortly after the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time Poland’s Jewish population was about three million, roughly ten percent of the total population. Actor Harry Giese (1903–1991) narrated.
- Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich — Documentary
Examines the way in which the National Socialists worked to marginalize mentally and physically disabled people. Includes propaganda films intended to justify and gain public support for Nazi policies and actions, including the killing or forced sterilizing of disabled individuals.
- Nazis’ Secret Killing Squads — Documentary
The Nazis’ Secret Killing Squads. A & E Documentary, Bill Kurtis Investigative Reports, 1999. Focuses upon the Einsatzgruppen (special action groups) and their SS leadership’s prosecution at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal by the heroic Benjamin Ferencz.
- Nazi Death Squads — Documentaries
This is an excellent four part series on the Einsatzgruppen (special action groups) which followed the German army when it invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. What is remarkable about this new series is the wide usage of documentary film footage of actual murders and horrific actions, as well as interviews with witnesses and survivors of this genocide. It shows how it was not just the SS and German troops who perpetrated this mass murder but Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, etc. locals who were recruited, hired, or volunteered for this project. You may watch all four episodes on the above link.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and The Jewish Community — Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies C-SPAN presentation
Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, looked at President Franklin Roosevelt’s relationship with the American Jewish community, and efforts by Jewish leaders to influence administration policy during the Nazi era.
- Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust — David Wyman and Rafael Medoff C-SPAN presentation
Authors David Wyman and Rafael Medoff discussed their book A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, published by The New Press.
Through a 12-hour interview with Peter Bergson, the authors document the campaign led by Peter Bergson, a Zionist activist and American immigrant during World War II, to inform the U.S. Government, media establishment, and American public of Nazi violence against European Jews.
The authors are joined in the discussion by fellow biographers David Nasaw and Blanche Wiesen-Cook.
- Memory of the Camps — Holocaust Documentary
This is the most important film you will ever see. Filmed by British, American, and Soviet forces in 1945 as the Nazi concentration and death camps were liberated. The searing graphic images are horrific. The wry ironic narration by the late Trevor Howard perfectly magnifies this horror.
- One Survivor Remembers — Documentary
This is the powerful and moving 1995 Academy Award-winning documentary on Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. After showing the film to my students for over a decade I had the opportunity to meet the courageous Ms. Klein, one of the high points of my life. In 2010 she was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference – Documentary
In 1937, a 17-year-old German Jew named Kurt Klein emigrated to the US to escape the growing discrimination against Jews that had become a terrible fact of life following Hitler’s rise in 1933. Together with his brother and sister, who had emigrated previously, Klein worked to establish himself so that he could obtain safe passage for his parents out of Germany. America and the Holocaust uses the moving tale of Klein’s struggles against a wall of bureaucracy to free his parents to explore the complex social and political factors that led the American government to turn its back on the plight of the Jews. The film is produced by Martin Ostrow. Hal Linden narrates.
- The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust — — Book by Jeffrey Herf
The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention for the past sixty years. The extent of atrocities, however, has overshadowed the calculus Nazis used to justify their deeds. According to German wartime media, it was German citizens who were targeted for extinction by a vast international conspiracy. Leading the assault was an insidious, belligerent Jewish clique, so crafty and powerful that it managed to manipulate the actions of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Hitler portrayed the Holocaust as a defensive act, a necessary move to destroy the Jews before they destroyed Germany. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, and Otto Dietrich’s Press Office translated this fanatical vision into a coherent cautionary narrative, which the Nazi propaganda machine disseminated into the recesses of everyday life.
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