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Lee Waters

Eng 102-104

Mr. Neuburger

28 February 2011

Annotated Bibliography:

The Holocaust

Bytwerk, Randall. German Propaganda Archive: 1933-1945. N.p., 7 Jan. 2011. Web.

22 Feb. 2011.

Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany. This page is a collection of English translations of
National Socialist propaganda for the period 1933-1945, part of a larger site on German
propaganda. The goal is to help people understand the great totalitarian systems of the twentieth
century by giving them access to primary material.

Using actual propaganda from the Holocaust period will help the reader understand what kind of
information the average German person was exposed to and what stance the German government
took when discussing World War II.

Goldhagen, Daniel J. The History Place- Points of View. N.p., 1996. Web. 27 Feb. 2011.

Excerpted from his book, Goldhagen discusses in length, the 4 main principles that he believes
were necessary for the extermination of the Jews to occur. The Nazi’s had to decide to undertake
the exterminations, gain control over the Jews, organize the exterminations and find enough
people to carry out the executions.

I will use this excerpt to further my findings on reasons why the German soldiers killed so many
people for reasons that many soldiers disagreed with in the first place.

Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project. Florida Center for Instructional Technology,

2008. Web. 22 Feb. 2011.

Created by teachers from the University of South Florida, this timeline creates an easy way to
understand the Jewish and non Jewish uprising during WWII. Terrifying uprisings were
everywhere from villages, ghettos and even in the death camps themselves. The Warsaw Ghetto
uprising was possibly the most infamous, and this website goes into detail with time lines, charts
and pictures to further educate the viewers.

The pictures from this website will be beneficial for me when trying to grasp the true
environment that Jews endured in the ghettos and death camps.
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Hornberger, Jacob G. How Hitler became a Dictator. The Future of Freedom Foundation,
28 June 2004. Web. 16 Feb. 2011.

Based on The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer, this article has detailed
findings on the presidential election of Hitler. The article also explains how the judiciary system
and civil liberties change once Hitler comes to power. Even though civilians did not always
agree with their dictators laws, they knew to keep quiet for fear of a visit from the Gestapo.

This article will be helpful since it explains just how much German law changed once Hitler was
in power, and how Germans were brainwashed with propaganda about the Jewish people.

Meier, David A. Hitler's Rise to Power. N.p., 2000. Web. 23 Feb. 2011.

Most people know who Hitler was, but what most people don’t know, is where he came from
and how he rose to power. This website gives the reader a good insight into Hitler’s childhood,
and tells of the important events that took place that led Hitler to power. Also mentioned were
the political views of Hitler and how he turned his beliefs into one of the world’s worst cases of
genocide.

I will use this article for information on Hitler and how his childhood shaped his role of a
dictator.

Rigg, Bryan M. Hitler's Jewish Soldiers. N.p., 17 Feb. 2002. Web. 22 Feb. 2011.

Interestingly enough, Rigg tells in his article that Hitler had, perhaps, 150,000 Jews fighting in
his German military. As Rigg fully documents for the first time, a great many of these
men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way
of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation.

This was an interesting article, and will be used as an example of Hitler’s flawed system.

Smitha, Frank E. Hitler and Germany: 1927-35. N.p., 2008. Web. 21 Feb. 2011.

Like some of the other articles, this article focuses on the the history and the beliefs of
theNational Socialists, and how Hitler gained the trust of the German people. By using
propaganda and well written speaches, Hitler was able to climb his way up in his democratic
party and eveutually became chancellor of Germany. This article also does a good job of
discussing Germany’s economy during Hitlers rule, and how he made things worse for the
German people after World War I.

I will use this article when I reference the state of Germany’s economy before, during and after
World War II.

Sternberg, Dr. Frances G. Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. N.p., 2008. Web.
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22 Feb. 2011.

The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying
It’s lessons to counter indifference, intolerance and genocide. The website easily explains
frequently asked questions, such as What was the Holocaust, How did the world respond to the
Holocaust and Why people deny that the Holocaust ever happened.

This website will be used to help me better understand how the Nazi’s carried out the Holocaust,
and how it is often pointed out that the Nazis did not kill Jews only. They also marshaled the
machinery of the state to persecute millions of other people who threatened their political
supremacy.

Streich, Michael. German Jews in the 1930's. N.p., 14 Nov. 2008. Web. 22 Feb. 2011.

From their rise to power in 1933 to the outbreak of war in 1939, the Nazi regime followed a
systematic policy designed to ostracize German Jews from normal society. This article focuses
on the hate that surrounded the Jews before WWII and how the Nazi’s used legislation,
administrative decrees, and propaganda to defame and ostracize Jews and to lower their social
and economic standing.

I will use this article to focus on how the Jews were discriminated against and how Nazi’s used
propaganda to desensitize the German people.

The Daily Salty: What did Ordinary People Think of the Holocaust?. N.p., 10 Nov. 2007. Web.

20 Feb. 2011.

This article examines the soldiers' perceptions and justifications of criminal missions committed
by their own comrades or in which they were actually involved, and their interpretations of the
facts and rumors they heard about the extermination of the Jewish population.

By using Nazi journal entries, I will be able to put the reader in the shoes of a Nazi, to see how
they viewed their wrong doings and how they justified their actions.

The Triumph of Hitler: The Nuremberg Laws. The History Place, 2001. Web. 20 Feb. 2011.

This article focuses mainly on the Nuremberg Laws and how laws were written in order to keep
control over the Jewish population. The writing goes into detail discribing how late Jews can be
on the streets, who they can marry, and instructions on how to distinguish between Jews and/or
mixed races.

When referencing the Nuremburg Laws, I will use this article to further my point that Jews were
discriminated against and to educate the reader on the unfairness that the Laws created.
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United States Memorial Holocaust Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2011.

After World War II ended, survivors and victims were misplaced and felt lost in their own
communities. By bringing these people together, they shared their experiences and losses which
were endured during the Holocaust. The United State Memorial Holocaust Museum has taken
these experiences and turned them into a website which honors those who were affected by the
Holocaust and educate those who visit the website on a vast number of related subjects.

This website tastefully informs those who visit it about the history of the Holocaust and the
events that took place under Nazi rule.