Bøger af Klaus-Peter Friedrich

This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in a total of 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. The work illustrates the contemporary contexts, the dynamics, and the intermediate stages of the political and social processes that led to this unprecedented mass crime. It can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and all other interested parties. The edition comprises authentic testimony by persecutors, victims, and onlookers. These testimonies are furnished with academic annotations and the vast majority of them are published here for the first time in English. Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/

Executive editor: Klaus-Peter Friedrich; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce This volume, the first of three in the series focusing on the persecution and murder of the Jews in occupied Poland, documents the developments from the attack on Poland in September 1939 up to July 1941. It covers the territories of western and northern Poland annexed to the Reich as well as the General Government. With the attack on Poland, around two million Polish Jews came under German rule. Jews were immediately subjected to stigmatization and humiliation, exposed to arbitrary acts of violence, deprived of their livelihoods, subjected to forced labour and forcibly displaced. In July 1940, a report by representatives of Polish Jews on the situation in the annexed territories of Poland sent to the US embassy in Berlin described a 'downcast, stigmatized Jewish population', terrorized and powerless in face of displacement, expulsions and the increasing incarceration of the Jewish population in ghettos, and it predicted that 'the process of destruction is not yet complete'. The volume documents the drive by the occupiers systematically to confiscate the property of the Polish Jews, and the different, often chaotic and conflicting strategies for displacing Jews in the annexed territories and in the General Government. The volume shows a range of reactions by the non-Jewish population of Poland to the escalating persecution of the Polish Jews. It also shows the efforts by Jewish organizations to publicize their plight abroad, to withstand the onslaught on their communities and to manage daily life in the increasingly desperate conditions of the ghettos. Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/

Das Generalgouvernement, der östliche Teil des deutsch besetzten Polen, war der zentrale Tatort des Holocaust. Hier lebten nach dem Überfall der Wehrmacht auf die Sowjetunion im Sommer 1941 etwa 2,3 Millionen Juden - meist unter katastrophalen Bedingungen in Gettos oder Zwangsarbeitslagern. Nach der Entscheidung, alle europäischen Juden zu töten, errichteten die deutschen Besatzer seit Anfang 1942 die vier Vernichtungslager der "Aktion Reinhardt", in deren Gaskammern bis Herbst 1943 fast sämtliche Bewohner der Gettos im Generalgouvernement sowie abertausende Juden aus dem übrigen Europa ermordet wurden. Der Band dokumentiert nicht nur Vorbereitung, Planung und Durchführung der Verbrechen, sondern auch den individuellen und kollektiven jüdischen Widerstand in Gettos und Lagern sowie die vielfältigen Reaktionen bei der polnischen Bevölkerung und im Ausland. Die Edition wird 16 zeitlich und territorial gegliederte Bände umfassen. Auf der Basis der Edition realisiert der Bayerische Rundfunk die dokumentarische Höredition "Die Quellen sprechen", die in Staffeln gesendet wird und unter www.die-quellen-sprechen.de nachzuhören ist.