CHAPTER NOTES

Introduction: Mandate for Murder

1. G.C. Kiriakopoulous, quoted in “Memoirs: WWII ‘We had come to know fear and sorrow, but what we saw was beyond imagination,’” Life, December 1, 1989, p. 125.

2. Dwight D. Eisenhower, quoted in Brewster Chamberlain and Marcia Feldman, “The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945: Chapter V The Military,” U.S. History (Parsippany, N.J.: Bureau of Electronic Publishing, 1994), n.p.

3. Calvin Goldscheider and Alan S. Zuckerman, The Transformation of the Jews (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984), p. 145.

4. John Weiss,Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996), p. x.

5. Sebastian Haffner, The Ailing Empire: Germany From Bismarck to Hitler, trans. Jean Steinberg (New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1989), p. 216.

6. Weiss, p. vii.

7. Ibid., p. ix.

Chapter 1. Barbarians, Believers, and Tyrants

1. Tacitus, Germania, quoted in Norman F. Cantor, The Medieval World: 300–1300 (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1963), p. 54.

2. Norman F. Cantor, Medieval History: The Life and Death of a Civilization (New York: Macmillian Publishing Co., 1969), p. 199.

3. William Ebenstein, “Junker,” vol. 13, Colliers Encyclopedia CD-ROM (Infonautics Corporation, Electric Library, 1998), n.p.

4. Anonymous French, in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, Microsoft Bookshelf (Microsoft Corp., 1991), n.p.

5. John Weiss, Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996), p. 71.

6. Ibid., p. 108.

7. Otto von Bismarck, quoted in Weiss, p. 80.

8. Alexis P. Rubin, ed., Scattered Among the Nations: Documents Affecting Jewish History 49 to 1975 (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1995), p. 157.

9. Weiss, p. 98.

Chapter 2. The Kaiser’s War

1. Michael Farr, Berlin! Berlin! Its Culture, Its Times (London: Kyle Cathie Limited, 1992), p. 116

2. John Weiss, Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996), p. 125.

3. Karl von Clausewitz, On War, quoted in Seldes, p. 81.

4. General Karl von Bülow, quoted in Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August (New York: The Macmillian Company, 1962), p. 314.

5. James Kindall, “WWI The Diamond Anniversary,” Newsday, November 11, 1993, p. 80.

6. Philip Gibbs, “Story of the Hand Grenadiers” in Francis Miller, ed., True Stories of the Great War, in Multimedia World History (Parsippany, N.J.: Bureau of Electronic Publishing, 1994), n.p.

7. Philip Gibbs, “Story of the Evening of Liquid Flames,” in Miller, n.p.

8. Quoted in “Works of Erich Maria Remarque: Biographical Note,” Monarch Notes (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963), Electric Library version, n.p.

9. Ibid.

10. Kindall, n.p.

11. Quoted in Sebastian Haffner, The Ailing Empire: Germany From Bismarck to Hitler, trans. Jean Steinberg (New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1989), p. 114.

12. Haffner, p. 134.

13. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1962), p. 56.

Chapter 3. A Small Group of Extremists

1. John Weiss, Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996), p. 228.

2. John Toland, Adolf Hitler (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), p. 4.

3. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. Helmut Rippeger (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939), p. 17.

4. Ibid., p. 52.

5. Ibid., p. 556.

6. Ibid., p. 224.

7. Ibid., p. 15.

8. Ibid., pp. 57–58.

9. Toland, p. 103.

10. Quoted in Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), p. 134.

11. Toland, p. 98.

12. Quoted in Toland, p. 98.

13. Quoted in William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1962), p. 105.

14. Quoted in Seldes, p. 185.

15. Ibid.

16. Toland, p. 170n.

17. “Rudolf Hess,” The History Place, 1996, <http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/hess-bio.htm> (May 28, 1999).

18. Rudolf Hess, quoted in Shirer, p. 77.

19. Ibid.

Chapter 4. Building a New Reich

1. Otto Strasser, Hitler and I (London: Cape, 1940), pp. 74–77.

2. Richard Grunberger, The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933–1945 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1995), p. 84.

3. Ibid.

4. John Laffin, Hitler Warned Us (London: Brassey’s, 1995), p. viii.

5. Bullock, p. 223.

6. Ibid.

7. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. Helmut Rippeger (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939), p. 449.

8. Ibid., pp. 449–450.

9. Baldur von Schirach, The Hitler Youth, quoted in George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: A Documentary History (New York: Schocken Books, 1981), p. 295.

10. Hitler, pp. 466–470.

11. Robert S. Wistrich, “Heinrich Himmler” Who’s Who in Nazi Germany1998 <http://zelda.thomson.com/routledge/ who/germany/himmler.html> (May 28, 1999).

12. Ibid.

13. Quoted in Thomas Robson Hay, “Gestapo,” vol. 2, Colliers Encyclopedia CD-ROM, 1996), n.p.

14. John Toland, Adolf Hitler (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), p. 311.

Chapter 5. Absolute Power

1. Quoted in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, in Microsoft Bookshelf (Microsoft Corp., 1991).

2. John Toland, Adolf Hitler (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), p. 346.

3. Robert N. Proctor, Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 212.

4. Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995), p. 252.

5. Quoted in Alexis P. Rubin, ed., Scattered Among the Nations: Documents Affecting Jewish History 49 to 1975 (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1995), p. 227.

6. Proctor, p. 15.

7. Quoted in Henry Friedlander, p. 4.

8. Charles Davenport, quoted in Henry Friedlander, p. 4.

9. Quoted in James M. Glass, “Life Unworthy of Life”: Racial Phobia and Mass Murder in Hitler’s Germany (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 43.

10. Quoted in In Pursuit of Justice: Examining the Evidence of the Holocaust (Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, no date), p. 102.

11. Quoted in Toland, p. 422.

12. Zindel Grynszpan, quoted in Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985), pp. 67–68.

13. Shirer, p. 580.

14. Gilbert, p. 69.

15. Quoted in Margot Stern Strom and William S. Parsons, Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior (Watertown, Mass.: Intentional Educations, Inc., 1982), p. 117.

16. Quoted in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946, vol. 3), pp. 545–547.

17. Ibid.

18. Shirer, p. 583.

19. Mitchell Bard, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World War II (New York: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 59–60. “Kristallnacht” The Holocaust\Shoah Page,1998. <http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/nacht.html> (May 28, 1999).

20. Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. 1: The Years of Persecution, 1933–1939 (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), p. 276.

21. Stuart S. Elenko Collection, Holocaust Museum and Studies Center, Bronx High School of Science. <http://voyager.bxscience.edu/orgs/holocaust/edguide/index.html>.

Chapter 6. The Killing Time

1. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. Helmut Rippeger (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939), p. 289.

2. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1962), p. 597.

3. John Toland, Adolf Hitler (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), p. 543.

4. James M. Glass, “Life Unworthy of Life”: Racial Phobia and Mass Murder in Hitler’s Germany (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 43.

5. Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995), p. 44.

6. Ibid., p. 45.

7. Quoted in Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986), p. 62.

8. Robert N. Proctor, Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 188.

9. In Pursuit of Justice: Examining the Evidence of the Holocaust (Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, no date), p. 75.

10. Quoted in Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, and Volker Riess, eds., “The Good Old Days”: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders, trans. Deborah Burnstone (New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1988; translation copyright 1991), pp. 63–64.

11. In Pursuit of Justice, p. 144.

12. Alexis P. Rubin, ed., Scattered Among the Nations: Documents Affecting Jewish History 49 to 1975 (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1995), p. 232.

13. In Pursuit of Justice, p. 246.

14. Shirer, p. 1218.

15. Toland, p. 789.