Recommended Holocaust Library List Prepared by Eugene M. Kravis in consultation with John M. Steiner PhD. Emeritus, Sociology, Founding Director Holocaust Study Center, Sonoma State University

Sections:

1	HARVEST OF HATE by Leon Poliakov
	One of the best written narratives on the Holocaust. This book, together with Hausner's book, Justice in Jerusalem (A36) will give the novice student an excellent introduction to the study of the Holocaust. After reading these two books. The student will be able to make good choices from the rest of this bibliography, depending on the students area of interest. In print: U.S. Holocaust Museum.
2	THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY by Raul Hilburg
	3 volume hard cover; 1 volume abridged paperback. The acknowledged encylopedic authority on what happened to the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. In Print.
3	TAKING LIVES: GENOCIDE & STATE POWER by Irving L. Horowitz
	The major authoritative and very analytical text on Genocide. In print. SSU.
4	ORDINARY MEN by Christopher Browning
	A very detailed psychosociological study of German soldiers, who murdered Jews on order, as told to the author in multiple interviews. In print. SSU
5	GERMAN RESISTANCE TO HITLER by Peter Hoffman
	In hardcover and abridged soft cover. The major encyclopedic work on the German resistance to Hitler, both civilian and military. Hardcover-Son.Cty Lib.SSU Soft cover in print.
6	BEYOND BELIEF by Deborah Lipstadt
	An extensive report on what the news media knew of what was happening to the Jews in Germany from 1933 to 1945. In Print. SSU
7	ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM by Erich Fromm
	The author's own psychosociological explanation to the question, "Why accept totalitarianism"? First written in 1945 as an attempt to explain the Holocaust. In print. SSU
8	POWER POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE in National Socialist Germany by John M. Steiner, PhD. 1975.
	This book has been written to help bridge the gap between the past and the present, to relate the National Socialist experience to some currently significant events by examining the dynamics which made National Socialism , as a system and as a social reality, possible. JMS. SSU Library.
9	FACE OF THE THIRD REICH by Joachim Fest
	Excellent psychological profiles of the Nazi leadership. Written in 1963 by a German journalist, it pulls no punches. Excellent bibliography. SSU; In Print.
10	THE DEVIL AND THE JEWS by Joshua Trachtenberg
	The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism. A folklore-demonolgy must! First printed in 1943 and still going! Son.Cty. Lib. First Edition. In print U.S. Holocaust Museum.
11	THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by Wm. L. Shirer
	A classic by an American journalist assigned to Europe from the 1920's to 1941. He almost got kicked out of Hitler's Germany for being to nosy. SSU
12	RACIAL HYGIENE by Robert O. Proctor
	A history of the pseudoscientific social Darwinist concepts of the Nazi racial policies, which culminated in the brutal medical experiments by the SS doctors. Current text U.C.S.F. Medical School. In Print. SSU
13	CHRIST IN DACHAU by Fr. John Maria Lenz
	The story of 2400 Christian clergymen incarcerated in Dachau by one who was there from 1938 to 1945. Publication commissioned by the Vatican. Has strong documentation of Nazi hostage blackmail of Vatican. SSU, German ed. Berkeley, Eng.
14	UNHOLY TRINITY: THE VATICAN, THE NAZIS AND SOVIET INTELLIGENCE by Mark Aarons and John Loftus
	This book and B41 document the Allies and Vatican secret programs to prevent the spread of communism throughout Europe, starting immediately after WW I and continuing after WW II. The postwar politicos and intelligence services (spies) expected a war between America and the Soviet Union was imminent. The Vatican and the West were recruiting both German and Eastern European Nazis for "Fifth Column" type activities in their respective countries. However, the Soviets succeeded in infiltrating the Western spy networks, causing their exposure. Many Nazis, including major war criminals (Eichmann, Barbie, Stangl and others were evacuated to safe havens in South America, Britain, Canada, Australia and the USA. They are being exposed today. In Print. Sonoma County Library.
15	WARRANT FOR GENOCIDE by Norman Cohn
	A definitive work on the origins of the Czarist forgery, The protocols of the elders of Zion , which to this day is being printed in foreign countries and used to demonize and criminalize the Jews. SSU

16	THE CRISIS IN GERMAN ORIGINS by George L. Mosse
	A discussion of the intellectual origins of the Third Reich. What thinking did Hitler have to play to in order to get the populous behind him? Solano County Lib.SSU
17	REVOLUTION AND GENOCIDE by Robert Melson 1992
	A study of the root causes of the two great genocides of the 20th Century: The Armenian and the Jewish Holocaust. A very good companion text to Chalk & Jonassohn (B1) In print.
18	VICHY FRANCE AND THE JEWS-M.R. by Marrus & R.O. Paxton
	The Holocaust in France: the documentation of the anti-Semitic Vichy government persecution of the Jews, before and after the surrender in 1940. SSU
19	THE DOWNFALL OF THE ANTI-SEMITIC POLITICAL PARTIES IN IMPERIAL GERMANYby Richard S. Levy
	An excellent account of the rise and fall of political antisemitism in Germany during the last quarter of the 19th Century to WW I (1914), setting the stage for Adolf Hitler. Read the Wilhelm Marr book (B16) after this one. SSU
20	THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE-by Madison Grant
	This was the major text of the American racist movement from 1916 until 1925. It is an American "Mein Kampf". You will find a lot of Hitler's ideology in it, 10 years before he wrote it. The book was used to influence the passage of the racist Johnson Immigration Act of 1925. SSU Library.
21	ANTISEMITISM: THE LONGEST HATRED by Robert S. Wistrich, 1991
	In 315 pages Dr. Wistrich has given an excellent overview of this negative attitude of the Western World from pagan times to the present, with particular emphasis on it's relationship to Nazi practices. The book is an excellent teaching text, laid out in short chapters, with excellent summations at the end of each chapter. Although no match in depth for Poliakov's classic work (B 32) it fills an important niche in college level teaching. SSU Library. Sonoma County Library
22	RWANDA AND GENOCIDE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Alain Destexhe
	An easily readable small book on the genocide in Rwanda. It is written by the former secretary of the French organization Doctors Without Borders.The author gives a concise narrative of the history of the Tutsi - Hutu controversy and the European involvement, which precipitated the genocide. The author's viewpoint is that humanitarian relief activities are a copout by the great power signatories to the UN Genocide Convention, so as to avoid intervention and bringing perpetrators to justice. This viewpoint is significant and bears more study.Sonoma County Lib.
23	THE GOOD OLD DAYS; The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders by Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, and Volker Ries, editors
	A collection of documents - personal diaries, SS and Wehrmacht military reports on the activities of the Einzatzgrupen (military killing squads). Photos are included. This is a horrible book, but it should be read by all serious students of the Holocaust and genocide, along with book No. 4 Ordinary Men. The book is highly recommended by Dr. John M. Steiner. Sonoma County and SSU Libraries.
24	REVOLUTIONARY ANTISEMITISM IN GERMANY FROM KANT TO WAGNER WAGNER by Paul Lawrence Rose.
	This book together with Levy's book (A19) and Massing's book (A25) will give the serious student a good background in the philosophies, sociology, economics and politics in Germany leading up to WW I, providing a fertile ground for the post war rise of Naziism in the Weimar Republic.
25	REHEARSAL FOR DESTRUCTION by Paul W. Massing
	One of the first scholarly attempts (1949) by an American author to answer the questions of "how" and "why" the Holocaust, and very well done. It should be reprinted as a student text. The speeches and articles documented in the appendix, alone, should be required reading. Together with books 19 and 24 would make an excellent semester course. SSU.
26	GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA: The policy of Ethnic Cleansing by Norman Cigar, 1995.
	The author is a professor of national security studies, employed by the military. This book, together with Gutman's book (B 29) is an excellent analytical presentation of the tragic breakup of the former Yugoslavia. From the demonizing of the Moslems to the murders and rapes in the camps, the many parallels to the Nazi brutal "cleansing" of the Jews from Europe during the Holocaust is shocking. Is this a genocide or a horrible civil War? Read it. You be the judge. Sonoma County Library.
27	ROME AND JERUSALEM: by Moses Hess,1862
	Translated from the German by Maurice J. Bloom, 1958. Moses Hess was the first person to express in modern language the ancient link between the Jewish people and Palestine - Judaism's prophet of Zionism. In this short (89 pages) philosophical monograph, Hess despairs of the failure of Western Jewry to be accepted by the Western nations. His final paragraphs are a shocking description of the catastrophe to befall modern Jewry "by a powerful blow from the outside which world conditions are destined to bring about in the near future." San Francisco Public Library. In print.
28	WHEN LIGHT PIERCED THE DARKNESS by Nechama Tec
	One of the best teaching texts on the Nazi era rescuers still available. The author survived the Holocaust by passing as a Catholic School girl, and is now a Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Even though many priests were anti-Semitic and informed on Jews, others sheltered scores of children. Nuns smuggled arms in to the ghetto. Righteous Christians emerged from every social class in Polish society, with strong ideas of right and wrong, indifferent to their neighbors opinions to the point of taking pleasure in opposition, and with a history of helping the poor an afflicted. In print Sonoma County Library.
29	IN SOLITARY WITNESS : The Life and Death of Franz Jagerstatter by Gordon Zahn, 1964.
	"Now anyone who is able to fight for both kingdoms and stay in good standing in both communities (that is, the community of saints and the Nazi Folk Community) and is able to obey every command of the Third Reich - such a man, in my opinion would have to be a great magician. I for one cannot do so. And I definitely prefer to relinquish my rights under the Third Reich and thus make sure of deserving the rights granted under the Kingdom of God. It is certainly unfortunate that one cannot spare his family this sorrow. But the sorrows of this world are short-lived and soon pass away. And this sorrow is not at all comparable to those that Jesus was not able to spare His dear Mother in His sufferings and death." The thoughts of Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian peasant, shortly before his death by the guillotine in 1943 for refusing to take the loyalty oath to Adolf Hitler and not reporting for military duty. Sonoma County Library.
30	NAZI GOLD by Tom Bower, 1997
	The major actions by the Swiss government and Swiss banking industry to steal and retain in Swiss banks, Jewish money belonging to Holocaust victims is revealed. The French and British Allies refused to cooperate in pressuring the Swiss to come clean. The British wanted no money to go to resettling Jews in Palestine from 1945 to 1948. Antisemitic Vichy France had dirty hands also. Only the American government, led by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, insisted on an accounting (Operation Safehaven), but was rebuffed at every turn, until a cooperative effort by Senator Alphonse D'Amato and Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the American Jewish Congress pressured the Swiss government to come clean, under the threat of trade sanctions against Switzerland. After testifying at Senate hearings in America, the Swiss have offered $120 million for a fund to support the remaining Holocaust victims. D'Amato and Bronfman are holding out for $250 million. In Print, Sonoma County Library.
31	THE BOYS - by Martin Gilbert, 1997
	A Jewish rescue organization, led by philanthropist Leonard Montefiore, brought to England, out of the Displaced Persons Camps 732 "Boys" (there were about 80 girls). This is their story. From their childhood in Europe to their life and work today is a story that displays many elements of the troubled yet aspiring human condition. Some had known each other in the brutal Nazi concentration camps, but it was when they were brought together in Britain that the strong links between them had been forged. These links have persisted to this day, unbroken, and indeed strengthened as the years passed. In Print; Sonoma County Library.
32	THE DOCTOR AND THE DAMNED - by Albert Haas, MD, 1984
	The murders, starvation, brutality and disease as seen by the author, a Nazi concentration camp, inmate, physician, survivor is graphically portrayed. Together with books (A33), (B9) and (B40) the reader will find the full story of the perversion and failure of Nazi medicine and it's contributions to the Nazi murder and brutality. Sonoma County Library.

33	RACIAL HYGIENE: Medicine Under the Nazis - by Robert N.Proctor, 1988.
	Presented is an expose', and warning by an American scholar why the medical and allied health professions should remain free from political control. This book and B9 traces the history and evils of the social Darwinistic philosophy forced into Nazi medical practices by the edicts of the Third Reich. SSU, Sonoma County Library.
34	THE APPEASERS - by Martin Gilbert, 1963.
	The British attempts to create a "peace in Europe" by the Chamberlain government from 1933 to 1939 is examined in detail by the author. Chamberlain wanted an Alliance with Nazi Germany to be a bulwark against Russian Bolshevism.(The Vatican wished a similar thing. See A14 - Intermarium)The British government was very pro-German/appeasement in 1933. By 1938 (Kristalnacht, Munich/Czechoslovakia, Austria) many of the pro-German government officers switched to the anti-German camp and advocated preparation for war. Unfortunately, Chamberlain resisted. Read A38 first for a better grasp of the German side. Stanford Library
35	SHETL by Eva Hoffman, 1997.
	This book and B37 give the student a good view of the small town Jewish societies in Poland from the 16th Century through WW II and the Holocaust. The concept that the Holocaust was just a "Jewish thing" and did not affect the Christian community is clearly refuted. The residents of both communities in the small town of Bransk suffered terribly from brutalities committed by both the Nazis and the Russians. However, only a few Jews, those who managed to escape and hide in the forest managed to survive. In Print, Sonoma County Library.
36	JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM - by Gideon Hausner, 1966.
	The author, the prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann, the architect and administrator of the "Final Solution", under the orders of Hitler and Himmler, provides us with an in depth view of the developments leading to the murder of European Jewry. The Eichmann trial ends up being a trial of the Nazi system, for the benefit of German youth born during the war. This was the intent of the German defense attorney, Dr. Servatius, from the beginning. That Eichmann was guilty of complicity in the cruel and torture murders of 6 million people was never in doubt. This book and A1 are excellent introductions to the study of the Holocaust.Book, B44 is an excellent companion text on the interrogation of Eichmann. In print. Sonoma County Library, SSU Library.
37	THE EICHMANN TRIAL - by Peter Papadatos, 1964.
	The author, Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Athens was the official observer for the International Commission of Jurists at the Eichmann trial. His analyses and commentaries on International Law are written in easy to understand language. There is no question that the Eichmann trial created legal concepts that are being used today in the prosecutions of perpetrators of genocide. This book, A36 and B44 are necessary reading for all those serious students of the Holocaust. Sonoma County Library.
38	GERMANY AND THE TWO WORLD WARS - by Andreas Hillgruber, 1981
	The author is a highly respected German historian. He has many books, in German, in the Stanford University Library. This book is his only work translated into English. It gives a good explanation of the German people's fears, real or imaginary, concerning being surrounded by enemies - mass paranoia or???? This book should not be read before B46. Afterward, read A34. In Print; In many local libraries.
39	HAVEN - by Ruth Gruber, 1983.
	The author is 87 years old (1998) has written many books on the 20th century experience in the United States and the rest of the world. She wrote this book about her work as a special assistant to a high official in the Roosevelt administration, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. In this account, she describes the power politics of the anti-Semitic/isolationist factions in the State Department trying to thwart the rescue of 1000 Eastern European Jews by executive order of Roosevelt. Because she was multi-lingual, she was selected to go to Europe to make sure the rescue was conducted properly. The student should read C1,The Pledge to further assess the U.S. government anti-Semitic attitudes toward the stricken Jews. In print, Sonoma County Library.
40	AHEAD OF TIME - by Ruth Gruber, 1991.
	This is the story of Ruth's childhood, education and visits to Europe and the Soviet Union as a writer and journalist for the New York Herald Tribune . Her two visits to Germany, immediately prior to the Hitler take over, and in 1934-1935 give a chilling premonition of the murderous years of the Holocaust to come. Her visit with relatives in Poland, who she had never seen, and, sadly, would never see again is most poignant. Her visit to the Soviet arctic, a first for any western journalist, gives a very human face to the stalwart Russian revolutionaries, who were pioneering and opening the North. Sonoma County Library.
41	FIGHTING BACK: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941-1945 - by Dov Levin, 1985.
	The author is Hebrew University foremost historian of the Holocaust. This book is a well researched and documented report of the Jewish fighters in the ghettos, forests and Soviet Army, Lithuanian Division. There were over 10,000 Jewish fighters, 6000 thousand of which formed a significant part of the Lithuanian Brigade, highly decorated, including the highest medal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union. This book, B37,the Stars of David in the American military cemeteries and the valor of the modern Israeli army should expose the anti-Semitic lie that the Jews are cowards and won't fight. Published in English in 1985, the book is still in print. University of the Pacific Library.
42	SCIENTISTS UNDER HITLER: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich by Alan D. Beyerchen, 1977.
	This book and C2 will give the reader an in depth look at how the Nazis tried to control academia and freedom of research. The Nurenburg laws of 1933-'34 forced the emigration of the brightest and the best German theoretical physicists, many of them, Jews. They became integrated into the Danish (Nels Bohr), British and American programs, which culminated in the production of the Atom Bomb. San Rafael Public Library.
43	THE ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE: Himmler and the Final Solution, by Richard Breitman, 1991.
	In most narratives on the Holocaust, Himmler is cast as a shadowy figure. The concentration is usually on Hitler, Heydrich and Eichmann. The author shines a brilliant light on Himmler, the evil, racist believer in the myth of the "World Jewish Conspiracy" - the Jews were supposed to have subverted the Russians through Bolshevism and were a mortal threat to Germany. They were supposed to be brutally wiped off the face of the earth. In print. Sonoma County Library.
44	TO THE BITTER END - by Hans Bernd Gisevius, 1948.
	The student of the Holocaust cannot have a complete understanding of the events that led up to it without a thorough knowledge of the opposition to Hitler from 1933 to the July 20, 1944 assassination. Gisevius was a civil service bureaucrat in the pre-Hitler Weimar government, who was kept on after 1933. He never became a Nazi party member, but managed to keep a job because he had influential friends, who like himself were in the underground opposition. Toward the end, with the help of Allen Dulles, American OSS chief in Switzerland he was able to escape across the border, with the Gestapo on his tail. The Wehrmacht Generals all were opposed Hitler's tactics and could have gotten rid of him in 1937. A number of assassination attempts were planned, but were foiled by ineptness.
45	POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS during the SECOND WORLD WAR - by Emanuel Ringelblum, 1974.
	Ringelblum, a PhD, historian was the leader of the group called Oneg Shabat, which chronicled life in the Warsaw Ghetto. The documents were buried and survived the destruction. He wrote this book, while being hidden by Polish friends outside the Ghetto. In addition to the descriptions of antisemitism and brutality, he makes a plea to remember all those gentiles, who risked their lives to save Jews, referring to them as "Idealists".

1	HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF GENOCIDE- by F.Chalk & K.Jonassohn
	I consider this a better elementary teaching text on Genocide than the one by Horowitz. In addition to the Jewish Holocaust, there are excellent accounts of other genocides, Armenians, African, American Indian etc. In print. SSU
2	HITLER SPEAKS- by Herman Rauschning
	Printed in 1939, these are memories and diary entries of a high Danzig Nazi party official, who often attended private dinner meetings with Hitler. Rauschning fled to England and then America, prior to 1939. SSU
3	NAPOLEON, THE JEWS AND THE SANHEDRIN- by Simon Schwarzfuchs
	The Jews as "the other" during the late 18th and early 19th century Europe is exemplified in this little book, as Napoleon tried to deal with the "Jewish problem". SSU
4	HITLER'S PROFESSORS by Max Weinreich
	An encyclopedic account of significant numbers of academics support and participation in the Nazi regime. SSU Lib. YIVO archives, New York City.
5	SO IT WAS TRUE- by Robert W. Ross
	Can be considered a companion study to Lipstad book, Beyond Belief .The author reviews 10 years of 50 interdenominational church periodicals 1930s thru 1940s. The purpose was to determine what the Christian hierarchy knew about the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis. It is all there and footnoted- They knew! SSU
6	THE SURVIVOR- by Terrence Des Pres
	A scholarly study of how to stay alive in the Death Camps. SSU
7	INSIDE THE THIRD REICH- by Albert Speer
	The reminiscences of one of the highest ranking Nazis, who was convicted and sentenced for War crimes. Must be read in that context. SSU
8	KERSTEN MEMOIRS- by Felix Kersten
	The author, Heinrich Himmler's personal massage therapist, had many personal sessions with Himmler. Their conversations give significant insights into his character, which was of a very insecure man. SSU. Lib.
9	THE SCIENTIFIC ORIGIN OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM- by D. Gasman
	Should be called the "pseudoscientific etc." The author chronologs the life of a well respected biologist, chairman of a department at a major German university at the turn of the century. He ended up supporting the racial principles of the social Darwinists and joining the Thule society, a secret racist organization. SSU Lib.
10	HE WAS MY BOSS(German)
11	THE CUNNING OF HISTORY- by Richard Rubenstein
	Less than 100 pages, the author describes how the Auschwitz model has been around in one form or another in the past and still impinges on us. Well worth reading. SSU

12	INSIDE THE VICIOUS HEART- by Robert H. Abzug
	The liberation of Nazi death camps is graphically portrayed. This book is required reading for the deniers! In print. SSU
13	AFTERMATH- by Ladislas Farago
	The escape of Martin Bormann and other Nazis to Argentina,and the transfer of tremendous wealth to the Argentine government (Eva Peron) in return for protection is well documented. SSU
14	THE LABYRINTH- by Walter Shellenberg
	An inside look at the Nazi Intelligence system by one of their own(Shellenberg). SSU Lib SRJC Lib
15	TO DELIVER THEIR SOULS- by Emanuel Frieder
	The author's brother, Rabbi Abraham Frieder was one of the senior members of the Slovakian Jewish community during the Holocaust .The rabbi's diary chronologs the Slovakian Jewish community attempt to negotiate with the Slovakian Nazis to prevent deportation to death camps. U.S. Holocaust Museum in print.
16	WILHELM MARR- by Moshe Zimmerman
	The biography of Wilhelm Marr, 19th century political activist, who coined the term antisemitism , which turned the religious antijudaism into a pseudoscientific racism, which spread throughout Europe.
17	EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM- by Hannah Arendt
	Some very controversial commentary about the "banality of evil". SSU
18	SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ- by Primo Levi
	Probably the best known of 41 books on his peonal Auschwitz experience. Even after putting it all down on paper, he could not come to terms with it. He committed suicide. SSU
19	TO PAINT HER LIFE- by Mary L. Felstiner
	The biography of Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi era, illustrated with her paintings. SSU Lib.
20	FRAUEN- by Alison Owings
	An American journalist interviews elderly German women about their recollections of the Third Reich. SSU Lib.
21	ANATOMY OF DESTRUCTIVENESS- by Erich Fromm
	An intensive study in human aggressiveness and violence. A very significant but difficult book to read. Sociology and Psychology students should master it. SSU
22	SECRETARIES OF DEATH- by Lore Shelley
	Interviews of Auschwitz concentration camp women survivors, who worked in the records keeping department, by the author, who was one of them. Very significant sociological information revealed comcerning the relationship between these women and their bosses. SSU
23	THE SEVENTH MILLION: The Israelis and the Holocaust by Tom Segev
	What was happening in mandate Palestine during the Hitler years? What was the response of the new state of Israel after the War? This is an attempt to answer those questions by an Israeli journalist. Yehuda Bauer, Israel's leading Holocaust scholar has serious questions about accuracy and claims the author has misquoted him. SSU.
24	HITLER - by Joachim Fest
	A detailed account of the rise and fall of Hitler by a German national, 750 pages. Gives a detailed account of the power politics of the Weimar Republic. Don't read Mein Kampf until you have read this book or you will get lost. SSU; In print.
25	THIS WAS OSWIECIM - by Philip Friedman
	Written in 1946, this small book (85 pages) is not a vague recollection of events 50 years later. It gives a very concise description of the operations of the Auschwitz death camp, fresh from the mind of a witness.
26	KARL KAUTSKY - by John Kautsky
	A commentary on his writings and philosophies by his grandson, John, Karl Kautsky (1854 to 1938) was the leading theorist of the German Social Democratic Party prior to WWI. If WWI had not occured, would Germany have progressed to a socialist parliamentary monarchy of the Swedish type? Intriguing question. Read this book and come to your own conclusions. SSU

27	ALBERT SPEER: HIS BATTLE WITH TRUTH - by Gitta Sereny
	Authoress and journalist Gitta Sereny became acquainted with Speer at the Nuremberg trials, where he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at Spandau. After his release she developed a 12 year relationship with him. She challenged his controversial statements, many of which appeared in his own book (B7) and interviewed many friends, and associates, who were in his ministry in the Hitler regime. In the last days of the 3rd Reich he was the 2nd most powerful man in Germany and intimate friend of Hitler. Read this one before B7. Sonoma County Library 1995.
28	DORA - by Jean Michel
	Not just another Holocaust survivor story. The author is a survivor of Dora, which some survivors, who experienced both camps feel was worse than Auschwitz. A Nazi war criminal was to call it "the Hell of all the concentration camps". Dora is different. Men who were intimately involved with the creation of the camp became respected, venerated and admired - the German rocket scientists. In the NASA Space Museum stands a V2 rocket produced at the cost of 30000 brutally extinguished lives in the assembly line tunnels of DORA.
29	A WITNESS TO GENOCIDE: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning Dispatches on Ethnic Cleansing of Bosnia - by Roy Gutman
	1994 Excellent companion text to Norman Cigar's book (A 26). The book compiles the journalist/author's observations from November 21, 1991 to June 22, 1993. The 51 page introduction and 5 page epilog should be required reading for Holocaust-Genocide students, particularly for Hitler era parallels. It is equivalent to Cigar's "A" class book. Between these two texts, an excellent definition of genocide emerges.
30	V-2 - Walter Dornberger, 1954 ( by Major General, formerly German Army Commanding Officer of the Peenemunde Rocket Research Institute.)
	The author, along with Werner von Braun and other German rocket scientists were captured along with 1400 pounds of records by the Americans at the end of WW 2. They provided the expertise to develop America's long range liquid fueled rocket program. This book should be read in conjunction with B 28 above, Dora , by Jean Michel. Are scientists and technicians responsible for horrors they produce? You be the judge. Sonoma County Lib.,SSU
31	CROSSBOW and OVERCAST - by James McGovern, 1964
	The German V-2 Rocket program and the utilization of the German rocket scientists in the post WWII American and Russian space programs is told again, this time from the point of view of American military intelligence. McGovern makes many references to Dornberger (B 30), validating its accuracy. Neither of these two books give any real description of the brutal slave labor conditions as Jean Michel (B 28). SRJC
32	HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM - by LEON POLIAKOV 4 VOLUMES
	Vol. 1 From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews Vol. 2 From Mohammed to Marranos Vol. 3 From Voltaire to Wagner Vol. 4 Suicidal Europe, 1870 to 1933 An excellent chronology of the experiences of the Jewish people from the destruction of the Temple to the advent of Adolf Hitler. Harvest of Hate (A1) continues from where Vol.4 ends. A must for the advanced student of the Holocaust. Stanford Library.
33	ANTISEMITISM THROUGH THE AGES - by Shmuel Almog, 1988
	A collection of papers presented at a symposia held in 1978 in Jerusalem by the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History. An excellent source book for the student of the Holocaust, particularly Chapter 24, On the Character of German Antisemitism by Israel Gutman. SRJC Lib.
34	TERROR OUT OF ZION: Irgun Zvei Leumi, Lehi and the Palestine Underground, 1929 -1949. - by Bell, J. Bowyer 1977.
	See number (B35) following for summary. Sonoma County Library.
35	WOMAN OF VIOLENCE - Geula Cohen 1966
	These 2 books (B 34 and 35) describe the intense armed struggle of an idealistic small underground army of Jews, who tried to drive the British from Palestine, establish the Jewish State before WWII hostilities began, and rescue the remaining Jews of Europe. Geula Cohen's story is biographical and more gripping than any spy novel. She was the voice of the Lehi underground radio. Her quoted writings and scripts are fiery classics in the annals of journalism. She lived in hiding from age 17, was imprisoned by the British, escaped and continued her clandestine radio broadcasts until the establishment of the State of Israel. Stanford and Siskiyou County Libraries.
36	ANATOMY OF THE AUSCHWITZ DEATH CAMP - Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors, 1994.
	This is a collection of essays about the various structures and functions of the Auschwitz system -multidisciplinary approach. Teachers will find it an excellent source of materials for handouts or lectures (Example: Chapter 7, Gas Chambers and Crematoria, 26 pages). Students, however should have mastered one good narrative descriptive text such as texts (A-1) (A-2) and (B-1) in this bibliography before utilizing this text. In print. Alameda County Library.
37	DEFIANCE: THE BIELSKI PARTISAN - Nechama Tec. 1993.
	From survivor interviews and remaining documents, the author has written a historical and sociological study of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews from Byelorussia (Byelrus) during the Holocaust. 1200 plus men, women and children- ghetto runaways were hidden deep in a forest -swamp environment, where even the Germans could not ge to them. All able bodied men fought alongside other partisan groups in guerilla warfare, as well as providing the group with protection and sustenance. The others formed a small town of craftsmen, medical and health specialists, with the common goal of survival. The group was a classic example of Dr. John Steiner's presentation on"Cast into Roles" in a social structure. The structure was a rigidly enforced survival pattern.
38	NAZI GOLD - Ian Sawyer & Douglas Botting, 1984
	Two books same title different authors (see A 30). This one was published in 1984. It dealt with the recovery and loss of Nazi gold bullion, specie and paper money at the end of WWII. It documents, as best as possible the corruption in the American Military government. The corruption reached so high, that it could only be ended, not prosecuted. Sonoma County Lib.

39	GENOCIDE IN SATELLITE CROATIA, 1941 - 1945 - Edmond Paris
	This book is given high marks for accuracy in A 14. The roots of the current conflict in Bosnia are graphically epicted on the matrix of the Mussolini/Hitler/Vatican collaboration to conquer Yugoslavia. Stanford
40	COURAGE UNDER SIEGE - Charles G. Roland, 1992.
	The attempt by ghetto, Jewish inmate physicians and nurses to relieve the pain and suffering inflicted upon the ghetto residents by the actions of the Nazi authorities is thoroughly documented from hidden records and witness testamonies. The complicity of the Nazi medical profession is shocking! Stanford, SSU
41	THE SECRET WAR AGAINST THE JEWS: How Western Espionage betrayed the Jewish people. - John Loftus and Mark Evans, 1994.
	The authors continue their expose', which stopped at the end of their book - A14. The major players opposing the safety of the young State of Israel were and are as follows: 1) The secret American private and corporate cartel investments in pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany, including the supplying of oil (Arab greed) during WW II. 2) U.S. State Department and CIA employment of known Eastern European Nazi war criminals for counterintelligence purposes and ethnic American politics. 3) "Big Oil" political pressure on U.S. government and disinformation to create favoritism toward Arab and Moslem oil producing countries. The web of intrigue, that is portrayed, is most difficult to follow, depending on ex-spy accounts and declassified documents.
42	THE HOUSE ON GARIBALDI STREET - Isser Harel, 1975.
	The first book on the capture of mass murderer Adolf Eichmann The author gives an excellent account of the planning and execution of the capture of Eichmann. Both this book and B43 should be read to understand the dimensions of the experience. Sonoma County Library.
43	EICHMANN IN MY HANDS - Peter Malkin, 1990.
	All but one of the Israeli Secret Service operatives, including the author, lost relatives in the Holocaust. Malkin was the head of the capture team. His boss also wrote a book (B42). The psychological effects on the members of the team, living in the same house, in Buenos Aires, with the mass murderer, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Final Solution, are described through the eyes of Malkin. It effected his life very positively, thereafter. He became a more balanced human being. Sonoma County Library.
44	EICHMANN INTERROGATED - Jochen von Lang and Claus
	Sibyll, editors. This 292 page book, originally in German, was written by a Nazi.* It is an abstraction of Adolf Eichmann's voluntary, uncoerced statements, from 7 months and 3564 pages of transcribed interrogation. Each page was signed as accurate by the accused. We must take into account the editors' biases, since we do not have the full transcript available. By his own admission, Eichmann was involved in a system that brutally murdered at least 4 million innocent men women and children and was guilty as charged. Whether he should have gotten the death sentence or life imprisonment - let the reader be the judge, after reading A 36 as well. Benecia Public Library.
45	AND THE CROOKED SHALL BE MADE STRAIGHT: The Eichmann Trial, the Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Arendt's Narrative. Jacob Robinson, 1965.
	This book is an excellent rebuttal to Arendt's book, Eichmann in Jerusalem . There appears to be many, many questionable "facts" in her book. Robinson points these out in a very scholarly, logical manner. The student should not read Arendt's book unless committed to read Robinson. SSU Library.
46	THE MEDICAL CASEBOOK of ADOLF HITLER - Leonard L. Heston MD. and Renate Heston, RN., 1980.
	The authors are a psychiatry professor and his wife. Was Hitler making decisions of life and death for the German people, army as well as the Jews and others while under the influence of Methamphetamine? Read it. You be the judge.
47	RAQUELA: A WOMAN of ISRAEL - Ruth Gruber, 1978.
	Gruber, once again in her unique style, (A39,40) through the eyes o Raquela Prywes, Nurse midwife, lets you live in Mandate Palestine/Israel from 1929 through 1973. This book, together with B35 will give the reader a great awareness of a woman's life in these times and an insight into the illegal rescue of Jews from Hitler's Europe (Aliyat Bet). Raquela, herself, gave one lover and one son for the establishment of the State of Israel, slain by Arab bullets. Sausalito Public Library; Stanford University Public Library.
48	TREASON WAS NO CRIME - Nicholas Reynolds, 1976.
	This book, together with A5 and A45, provide a definitive account of the German resistance to Hitler, both civilian and military. The book is a biography of General Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff from 1933 to 1938. A loyal but not ardent Nazi, Beck saw the the "strong man" principle of National Socialism as the salvation of the army in the post WWI turmoil. By the time he retired in 1938, he was the committed leader of the resistance. He saw Hitler as the "greatest evil of mankind". As the leader of the failed July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, he committed suicide. U.C. Berkeley Library.
49	AN EYE FOR AN EYE - John Sack, 1995
	There is enough documentation in this controversial book to substantiate claims that Polish Auschwitz Jewish survivors were put into positions of authority in prisons operated by the Office of State Security at The end of WWII. The alleged brutality of survivor guards And commandants offer possible proof to the theories of blind obedience to authority as demonstrated by Zimbardo at Stanford and Milgrom at Yale.

Reviewed and approved by:
John M. Steiner PhD. and his research Assistant Eugene M. Kravis DVM.