Research Guides: Holocaust and Night (by Wiesel): Questions for Early College

What conditions and ideas made the Holocaust possible?

What conditions, ideologies, and ideas made the Holocaust possible?
From the United States Holocaust Museum.

"World War II: Cause and Effect." Films Media Group, 2005. Films On Demand, https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=99147&xtid=50315. Accessed 22 Nov. 2023.

“Hitler and the Origins of World War II.”
“Hitler and the Origins of World War II.” A Companion to Europe 1900-1945, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. Modern World History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=99147&itemid=WE53&articleId=369356. Accessed 6 Nov. 2023.
Causes of World War II
From Modern World History database. Includes information about the war in the Pacific.
Final Solution
Information from the Modern World History database.

In the Midst of Civilized Europe by Jeffrey Veidlinger
Call Number: North DK 508.812 .V45 2021
ISBN: 9781250116253
Publication Date: 2021-10-26
"The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holocaust."
Holocaust by Deborah Dwork; Robert J. Van Pelt "New museums, monuments, and memorials to the Holocaust now punctuate the skylines of many cities and towns throughout the western world. No other historical event commands this attention. No other historical event sits so visibly at the heart of our public, political, and social life."
Call Number: Book General Collection, D 804.3 .D87 2002, Rowan-Cabarrus North Campus
ISBN: 0393051889
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Why? by Peter Hayes Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of why such carnage erupted still eludes people.
Call Number: D 804.3 .H387 2017
ISBN: 9780393254365
Publication Date: 2017-01-17

Radicalism and Nazi Ideology (Aryan supremacy)
Encyclopedia article from Modern World History
Mein Kampf from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Nazis Rise to Power

"Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust." Films Media Group, 2022. Films On Demand, https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=103806&xtid=283015. Accessed 24 Oct. 2023.

"Implementation of Terror, 1925 to 1939: Hitler—Germany's Fatal Attraction ." Films Media Group, 2015. Films On Demand, https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=103806&xtid=114449. Accessed 24 Oct. 2023.

World War II, Part 1: Into the Storm." Films Media Group, 1999. Films On Demand, https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=99147&xtid=10299. Accessed 22 Nov. 2023.
The Rise of the Third Reich
From the Modern World History database.
Versailles Treaty and the Weimar Constitution in Germany
From the Modern World History database.
Weimar Republic
Encyclopedia article from Modern World History
World War 1 and the Rise of Hitler
SCHWABE, KLAUS. “World War I and the Rise of Hitler.” Diplomatic History, vol. 38, no. 4, 2014, pp. 864–79. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26376610. Accessed 6 Dec. 2023.
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf summary and how it relates to the beginning of Nazism.
Kristallnacht
Translated from the German as "Night of Broken Glass," this event marks the beginning of the terror against Jews in Germany.
Hitler, Adolf
Encyclopedia article from Modern World History database.
Beer Hall Putsch
Encyclopedia article from Modern World History
Hitler and the origins of World War II
Encyclopedia article from Modern World History

Life Under Nazi Dictatorship

Society in Nazi Germany
Article from Modern World History

Nazi Rule from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
women and Nazi ideology
The Nazi attitude toward women was determined by the basic beliefs of the Nazi Party. The preservation of the Aryan race meant that women had a crucial role to play as mothers.

Daily Life in Nazi-Occupied Europe by Harold J. Goldberg
Call Number: D 802 .E9 G65 2019
ISBN: 9781440859113
Publication Date: 2019-10-25
Daily Life in Nazi-Occupied Europe provides readers with information about political and military affairs, economic life, religious life, intellectual life, and other aspects of daily life in those countries occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Culture in the Third Reich
From the USHMM website.
Book burnings from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

What Nazis and Collaborators did to Implement the Holocaust

How did the Nazis and their collaborators implement the Holocaust?
From the United States Holocaust Museum.
United States Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia - Collaboration
Website about who collaborated with the Nazis and how they aided in the Holocaust.
Vichy France
Vichy France is the name given to the right-wing, authoritarian government that succeeded the Third Republic after the fall of France to the Nazis in 1940.

Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly.
Call Number: D 804.3 G648 1991
ISBN: 0679772685
Publication Date: 1997-01-28

First Concentration Camps

Chelmno and the Holocaust by Patrick Montague
ISBN: 9780807869413
Publication Date: 2012-03-19
As the first extermination camp established by the Nazi regime and the prototype of the single-purpose death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec, the Chelmno death camp stands as a crucial but largely unexplored element of the Holocaust.

Dachau
Proquest Guided Research

How did leaders, diplomats, and citizens around the world respond to the events of the Holocaust?

US Response to Holocaust - USHMM

Infobase Modern World History
Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history.

"America and the Holocaust (2014)." Films Media Group, 2014. Films On Demand, https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=99147&xtid=151367. Accessed 22 Nov. 2023.
Telegram Confirming Reports of Mass Executions of Polish Jews
Primary document to the US Government about the killing of Jews

In what ways did Auschwitz and the events at Auschwitz represent the overall ideology and policies of the Nazi Regime?

Auschwitz from USHMM
Wannsee Conference
Held on January 20, 1942, at Wannsee, a villa on Lake Wannsee in southwestern Berlin, the conference was a meeting called by Reinhard Heydrich between officials of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and administrators of the German civilian government to secure the cooperation of the SS and the civilians in carrying out the Final Solution, the genocide of the Jews of Europe in what historians came to call the Holocaust.
Wannsee Protocol
Infamous document prepared during the Wannsee Conference (January 20, 1942) convened by Reinhard Heydrich (head of Germany's Nazi security police) and his supervisor Heinrich Himmler to coordinate the efforts of all the Nazi agencies in planning and implementing "the final solution to the Jewish question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage).

The Holocaust by Laurence Rees
Call Number: D 804.3 .R433 2017 South Campus
ISBN: 9781610398442
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
The Holocaust: A New History is an accessible yet authoritative account of this terrible crime. A chronological, intensely readable narrative, this is a compelling exposition of humanity's darkest moment.

Wannsee talks finalized `Final Solution'
Article about the Wannsee Talks from 1942 and how they influenced the Nazi's Final Solution plans.
Mengele, Josef
Encyclopedia article from Modern World History

For Primary Sources (Speeches, Letters, Laws, Propaganda)

EuroDocs EuroDocs links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history). The order of documents is chronological whenever possible.
Library of Congress
Nazi and Easty German Propaganda

The Holocaust by Stephen C. Feinstein (Foreword by)
Call Number: D 804.19 .H55 2006 South
ISBN: 0780809351
Publication Date: 2007-09-12
Assembles 100 primary documents on this pivotal era in world history.
Defining Documents in World History: Genocide and the Holocaust by Salem Press Designed for high school and college students, the goal of these volumes is to carefully study genocide throughout world history, to give students a frame of reference on how to understand and comprehend what has happened in our past, and what to be aware of in the future.
ISBN: 9781637000137
Publication Date: 2022-02-28