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This guide to further reading is arranged thematically - dealing

with issues in the order that they arose in the rest of the book.
Many more titles can be found in the notes and references of this
book, and indeed the following selection represents only a tiny
fragment. Inclusion here simply signifies that these texts are
among the most important and accessible. What follows is, there-
fore, a place to start.

General Holocaust histories

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality
of Evil (London, 2006)
Donald Bloxham, The Final Solution: A Genocide (Oxford, 2009)
Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933–45 (London,
1987)
Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, Holocaust: A History
(New York, 2002)
Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volumes 1 and 2
(New York, 1997 and 2008)
Philip Friedman, Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust
(New York, 1980)
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New Haven:
CT, 2002)
Helmut Krausnick and Martin Broszat (eds), Anatomy of the SS
State (London, 1970)

Holocaust history, historiography and memory

Donald Bloxham and Tony Kushner, The Holocaust: Critical His-
torical Approaches (Manchester, 2005)
Zvi Gitelman, Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the
USSR (Bloomington: IN, 1997)
Michael Marrus, The Holocaust in History (London, 1993)
Dan Michman, Holocaust Historiography: A Jewish Perspective
(London, 2003)
Alan Mintz, Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Mem-
ory in America (Washington: DC, 2001)
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Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (New York, 2000)

Dan Stone, Constructing the Holocaust (London, 2003)
James Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and
the Consequences of Interpretation (Bloomington: IN, 1988)

The Holocaust in context

Michael Thad Allen, The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave

Labour and the Concentration Camps (Chapel Hill: NC, 2002)
Götz Aly, Final Solution: Nazi Population Policy and the Murder
of the European Jews (London, 1999)
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York, 2004)
Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge,
1989)
Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary
Germans and the Holocaust (New York, 1996)
Robert Koehl, RKFDV: German Resettlement and Population
Policy 1939–45 (Cambridge: MA, 1957)
Hans Mommsen, From Weimar to Auschwitz (Princeton: NJ,
1991)
A. Dirk Moses and Dan Stone (eds), Colonialism and Genocide
(London, 2007)
George Mosse, Toward the Final Solution (1977)
Robert Jan van Pelt and Deborah Dwork, Auschwitz 1270 to the
Present (New Haven: CT, 2000)
Peter Pulzer, The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and
Austria (London, 1988)
Jurgen Zimmerer, ‘Colonialism and the Holocaust: Towards an
Archaeology of Genocide’, A. Dirk Moses (ed.) Genocide and
Settler Society (New York, 2004)

Bystanders to the Holocaust

Victoria Barnett, Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity During

the Holocaust (Westport: CT, 1999)
Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (London, 1981)
Tony Kushner, The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A
Social and Cultural History (London, 1994)
Louise London, Whitehall and the Jews 1933–48: British Immigra-
tion Policy and the Holocaust (Cambridge, 2000)
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Michael Phayer, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust (Bloom-

ington: IN, 2001)
John K. Roth and Carol Rittner (eds), Pope Pius XII and the Holo-
caust (London, 2002)
William D. Rubenstein, The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democra-
cies Could not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis (London,
2000)
Bernard Wasserstein, Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939–45
(Oxford, 1988)
David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the
Holocaust 1941–45 (New York, 2007)

The origins of the ‘Final Solution’

Martin Broszat, ‘Hitler and the Genesis of the Final Solution: a
reply to David Irving’, Yad Vashem Studies (Vol. 13, 1979), pp.
73–115
Christopher Browning (with Jürgen Matthäus), The Origins of the
Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy September
1939–March 1942 (Lincoln: NE, 2004)
Gerald Fleming, Hitler and the Final Solution (London, 1985)
Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthana-
sia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: NC, 1995)
Christian Gerlach, ‘The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German
Jews, and Hitler’s Decision in Principle to Exterminate all Euro-
pean Jews’, Journal of Modern History (Vol. 70, 1998), pp.
759–812.
Ian Kershaw, ‘Improvised Genocide: The Emergence of the ‘Final
Solution’ in the Warthegau’, Transactions of the Royal Histor-
ical Society, 6th Series, Vol. 2 (London, 1992), pp. 51–78
Peter Longerich, ‘The Wannsee Conference in the Development of
the Final Solution’, David Cesarani (ed)¸ The Holocaust: Criti-
cal Concepts in Historical Studies (London, 2004)
Jürgen Matthäus, ‘Controlled Escalation: Himmler’s Men in the
Summer of 1941 and the Holocaust in the Occupied Soviet Ter-
ritories’, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Vol. 21, No. 2, 2007)
Karl Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy
Toward German Jews 1933–39 (Chicago: IL, 1970)

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National Holocausts
(Covering those areas dealt with in the main text)
Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard
Death Camps (Bloomington: IN, 1987)
Randolph Braham, The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in
Hungary (New York, 1981)
David Cesarani (ed.), Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in
Hungary 1944 (Oxford, 1997)
Tim Cole, Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto (Lon-
don, 2003)
Martin Dean, Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the
Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine 1941–44 (London, 2000)
Jan Thomas Gross, Neighbors: the Destruction of the Jewish
Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Princeton: NJ, 2001)
Ulrich Herbert (ed.), National Socialist Extermination Policies
(Oxford, 2000)
Wendy Lower, Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
(Chapel Hill: NC, 2005)
Michael Marrus and Robert Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews
(Stanford: CA, 1981)
Bob Moore, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the
Jews in the Netherlands (London, 1997)
Jacob Presser, Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry
(London, 1968)

The Perpetrators of the Holocaust

Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion
101 and the Final Solution in Poland (London, 2002)
David Cesarani, Eichmann: His Life and Crimes (London, 2005)
Ernst Klee, Willi Dresden and Volker Reiss (eds), “The Good Old
Days”: The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders
(New York, 1991)
Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psy-
chology of Genocide (New York, 1986)
Yaacov Lozowick, Hitler’s Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security Police
and the Banality of Evil (London, 2002)
Hans Safrian, Eichmann’s Men (Cambridge, 2010)
Gitta Sereny, Into That Darkness: From mercy Killing to Mass
Murder (London, 1974)
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German society and the Holocaust

Götz Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War and the Nazi
Welfare State (New York, 2006)
Frank Bajohr, Aryanisation in Hamburg: The Economic Exclusion
of the Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Ger-
many (Oxford, 2002)
David Bankier, The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opin-
ion Under Nazism (Oxford, 1992)
David Bankier (ed.), Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism:
German Society and the Persecution of the Jews (Jerusalem,
2000)
Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi
Germany (Oxford, 2001)
Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World
War II and the Holocaust (Cambridge: MA, 2006)
Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third
Reich: Bavaria 1933–45 (Oxford, 1983)

Jewish resistance to the Holocaust

Samuel D. Kassow, Who Will Write Our History? Emmanuel
Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
(Bloomington: IN, 2007)
James M. Glass, Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Moral
Uses of Violence and Will (London, 2004)
Israel Gutman, Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Boston:
MA, 1994)
Hermann Langbein, Against All Hope: Resistance in Nazi Con-
centration Camps (London, 1994)
Ber Mark, The Scrolls of Auschwitz (Tel Aviv, 1985)
Jacob Sloan (ed.), The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum (New
York, 1958)

Ghetto society and Jewish leadership

Gustavo Corni, Hitler’s Ghettos: Voices from a Beleaguered Soci-
ety 1939–44 (London, 2002)
Yisrael Gutman (ed.), Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi
Europe 1933–45: Preoceedings of the Third Yad Vashem Histor-
ical Confernece (Jerusalem, 1979)
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Raul Hilberg et al. (eds), The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerni-

akow: Prelude to Doom (New York, 1994)
Samuel Gringauz, ‘The Ghetto as an Experiment of Jewish Social
Organisation’, Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 11, No. 1, 1949)
Shimon Huberband, Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cul-
tural Life in Poland (New York, 1987)
Janusz Korczak, The Ghetto Years 1939–42 (New York, 1978)
Avraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
(Oxford, 1988)
Vladka Meed, On Both Sides of the Wall (Tel Aviv, 1973)
Calel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish
Ghetto Policeman (New York, 1996)
Isaiah Trunk, Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe
Under Nazi Occupation (New York, 1972)

Holocaust testimonies
Judith Tydor Baumel, Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holo-
caust (London, 1998)
Cathy Caruth (ed), Trauma: Explorations in Memory (Baltimore:
MD, 1995)
Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crisis of Witnessing
in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (London, 1992)
Henry Greenspan, On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recount-
ing and Life History (Westport: CT, 1998)
Gideon Greif, We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish
Sonderkommando from Auschwitz (New Haven: CT, 2005)
Geoffrey H. Hartman, The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of
the Holocaust (Bloomington: IN, 1996)
Lawrence Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
(New Haven: CT, 1991)
Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved (New York, 1998)
Dalia Ofer and Leonore Weitzmann, Women and the Holocaust
(New Haven: CT, 1998)
Carol Rittner and John Roth (eds), Different Voices: Women and
the Holocaust (St. Paul: MN, 1993)
Mark Roseman, The Past in Hiding (London, 2001)
Tsvetan Todorov, Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concen-
tration Camps (New York, 1996)
Zoë Vania Waxman, Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony,
Representation (Oxford, 2006)
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