Nazism 1919-1945: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination : A Documentary Reader

This volume in the series Nazism 1919-1945 contains the most systematic documentation available in English of the Nazi programs of racial and eugenic extermination, including a detailed case study of the occupation of Poland. It contains a general account of the Nazi empire and the development of German occupation policies, and also covers German foreign policy 1933-1945. Following the opening of up of the archives in Eastern Europe, the past decade has seen the publication of important research on the Nazi extermination of the Jews; three chapters have been substantially revised in the light of this research and a considerable number of new documents have been added. The documents are drawn from a wide range of sources both published and unpublished official and party documents, memoirs, letters, diaries and newspapers and are linked with a commentary. The combination of documents and commentary represents at the same time a textbook, an original contribution and an invaluable source book for students and historians.