No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror-World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With The Third Reich Sourcebook, editors Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman present a comprehensive collection of newly translated documents drawn from wide-ranging primary sources, documenting both the official and unofficial cultures of National Socialist Germany from its inception to its defeat and collapse in 1945. Framed with introductions and annotations by the editors, the documents presented here include official government and party pronouncements, texts produced within Nazi structures, such as the official Jewish Cultural League, as well as documents detailing the impact of the horrors of National Socialism on those who fell prey to the regime, especially Jews and the handicapped. With thirty chapters on ideology, politics, law, society, cultural policy, the fine arts, high and popular culture, science and medicine, sexuality, education, and other topics, The Third Reich Sourcebook is the ultimate collection of primary sources on Nazi Germany.

Anson Rabinbach is professor of history at Princeton University, founder and co-editor of New German Critique, and author of several books, including In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment.

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as a professor of psychiatry at Emory University, and is the author or editor of over eighty books, including Obesity: The Biography and Wagner and Cinema (co-edited with Jeongwon Joe).

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Introduction

Part One. The Beginnings of National Socialism
1. The Munich Years and the Legacy of the War

1. Guidelines of the German Workers' Party (1919)
2. Adolf Hitler, Letter to Adolf Gemlich (1919)
3. Wilfred Bade, The Founding of the Party in 1920 (1933)
4. Dietrich Eckart, Jewishness in and around Us (1919)
5. The Program of the German Workers' Party: The Twenty-Five Points (1920)
6. Gottfried Feder, Manifesto for Breaking the Bondage of Interest (1919)
7. Otto Gmelin, Prohn Fights for His People (1933)
8. Heinrich Lersch, The German Soldier; In the Military Hospital (1939)
9. Hanns Johst, Schlageter (1933)
10. Hans Hinkel, One of a Hundred Thousand (1937)
11. Wilfred Bade, The Hitler Trial (1933)
12. Wilfred Bade, The SA Conquers Berlin (1933)
13. Fritz Oerter, Our Speakers in the Anti-Marxist Struggle: The Balance of an Election Year (1932)
14. Hermann Führbach, How I Became a National Socialist (1934)

2. Nazism in Power: 1933

15. Walter Frank, On the History of National Socialism (1939)
16. Oswald Spengler, The White World Revolution (1933)
17. Hermann Goering, Radio Address: 30 January 1933
18. Joseph Goebbels, Day of Potsdam: 22 March 1933 (1933)
19. Erich Ebermayer, My Day of Potsdam: Diary Entry (1933)
20. Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of Volk and State (1933)
21. Anonymous, The Reichstag Fire: Declaration of Martial Law? (1933)
22. Otto Wels, Speech against the Passage of the Enabling Act (1933)
23. Law to Remedy the State of Emergency of Volk and Reich (1933)
24. Law for the Restoration of Professional Civil Service (1933)
25. Adolf Hitler, Speech to Commemorate National Labor Day (1933)
26. Das Schwarze Korps, Second-Class Comrades? (1936)
27. Carl Schmitt, State, Movement, Volk: The Tripartite Division of Political Unity (1933)
28. Ernst Forsthoff, The Total State (1933)
29. Alfred Rosenberg, The Total State? (1934)
30. Carl Schmitt, The Führer Protects the Law: On Adolf Hitler's Reichstag Address of 13 July 1934 (1934)
31. Hans Frank, On the Position of the Judge before National Socialist Law and in the National Socialist State (1936)

3. The Political Religion: Führer Cult, Ceremonies, and Symbol

32. Albert Reich, Adolf Hitler's Homeland (1933)
33. Baldur von Schirach, Hitler as No One Knows Him (1933)
34. Rudolf Hess, The Oath to Adolf Hitler (1934)
35. Baldur von Schirach, To the Führer; Hitler (1935)
36. David Lloyd George, I Talked to Hitler (1936)
37. Anonymous, This Is a National Poison? What the Ban on Führer Kitsch Is Supposed to Protect Us From (1933)
38. Anonymous, City and Countryside Shine in Celebratory Splendor (1939)
39. Engelbert Huber, The Swastika (1933)
40. Franz Alfred Six, The Propaganda of the Street and the Masses (1936)
41. Franz Alfred Six, The Power of the Spoken Word (1936)
42. Erwin Schockel, Good and Bad Posters (1939)
43. Das Schwarze Korps, With German Protestant Catholic Greetings (1935)
44. Wilfred Bade, The Party Rally Day of Victory: The Victory of Faith (1933)
45. Willy Liebel, Five Years: Nuremberg, City of Party Rallies (1938)
46. Victor Klemperer, Listening to Goering's Speech
at the 1938 Nuremberg Rally (1938)
47. Law Concerning Holidays (1934)
48. Hannes Kremer, New Meanings for "Inherited" Customs? (1937)
49. Frank Leberecht, Call to the Fire (1934)
50. Central Cultural Office, Reich Propaganda Leadership, Honoring Fallen Heroes: NSDAP Veterans' Memorial Day Celebrations (1939)

Part Two. The National Socialist Worldview
4. Between Myth and Doctrine

51. Adolf Hitler,The Aryan (1925)
52. Adolf Hitler, Speech at the NSDAP Congress on Culture (1933)
53. Ernst Krieck, The Racial-Völkisch-Political Conception of History (1934)
54. Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century: On the Third Edition (1930)
55. Joseph Goebbels, Communism with the Mask Off (1935)
56. Carl Schmitt, National Socialist Legal Thought (1934)
57. Hans F.{ths}K. Günther, A Modest Racial Study of the German People (1929)
58. Susanna Pertz, The Word Nordic (1939)
59. Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Nordic Beauty: Portraits of Perfection in Life and in Art (1937)
60. Wolf Willrich, The German Face (1935)
61. Otto Höfler, Secret Cultic Societies of the Germanic Peoples (1934)
62. Harald Spehr, Were the Germans "Ecstatics"?: A Comment on Otto Höfler's Secret Cultic Societies of the Germanic Peoples (1936)
63. Eberhard Freidank, Nordic Ecstasy (1933)
64. Alfred Bäumler, Hellas and Germania (1943)

5. Racial Science

65. Ludolf Haase, We Need a Reich Office of Racial Affairs (1933)
66. Walter Gross, National Socialist Racial Policy: A Speech to German Women (1934)
67. Paul Brohmer, Biological Studies and Völkisch Education (1933)
68. Günther Hecht, Biology and National Socialism (1937/1938)
69. Johann Fahlbusch, Colored Blood in the Rhineland (1935)
70. Reichsführer SS Central Office for Racial Policy, Racial Policy (1942)

6. Germany's Colonial Mission

71. Karl Haushofer, National Socialist Thought in the World (1933)
72. Hans Simmer, German Territory and German Volk (1934)
73. Hans Grimm, My Father, My Colonies (1934)
74. Ernst Gerhard Jacob, Colonial Policy as Cultural Mission (1938)
75. Ernst Janisch, The Biological-Historical Background of German Living Space (1943)

Part Three. Antisemitism: The Core Doctrine
7. Jews: The Visible Enemy

76. Adolf Hitler, Aryan and Jew (1925)
77. Engelbert Huber, The Anti-Semitism of the NSDAP (1933)
78. E.{ths}H. Schulz and R. Frercks, Why the Aryan Law? A Contribution to the Jewish Question (1934)
79. Reinhard Heydrich, The Visible Enemy: The Jews (1935)
80. Alfred Rosenberg, Bolshevism: The Work of an Alien Race (1935)
81. Martin Buber, An Open Letter to Gerhard Kittel (1933)
82. Gerhard Kittel, Response to Martin Buber (1934)

8. Eliminating the Jews: From the Nuremberg La…