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[Four responses are posted below. Ed.] 1. Jeff Rutherford (jcruth33@HOTMAIL.COM) Two collections which contain some translated sources on the Wehrmacht's involvement in the Holocaust, though primarily at the lower levels, are "The Good Old Days:" The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders, (eds.) Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen and Voelker Riess and The German Army and Genocide: Crimes against War Prisoners, Jews, and other Civilians, 1939-1945, (ed.) Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Foreward by Omer Bartov. The translated war diaries of Fedor von Bock and Franz Halder both have a few passages in which policy towards Jews is mentioned as well: Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock: The War Diary, 1939-1945, (ed.) Klaus Gerbet and The Halder War Diary, 1939-1942, (eds.) Charles Burdick and Hans-Adolf Jacobson. The editorial comments in the former, however, need to be taken with more than a grain of salt. Best, Jeff 2. Bill Patch (patchw@WLU.EDU) You doubtless know it already, but since you did not list it, I'll mention the older ANATOMY OF THE SS STATE (which appeared in English translation in 1968). Hans Buchheim's well documented section on "Command and Compliance" and H.A. Jacobsen's on the KOMMISARBEFEHL remain good starting points for students... --Bill Patch 3. Arnold Reisman (arnoldreisman@SBCGLOBAL.NET) While there is lots of stuff on the German military's involvement with the Holocaust but there is very litle on the reverse issue, the few in the German military who tried to put end to it. For a primary source I highly recommend a book titled "Letters to Freya." The writer of these letters was Count Helmuth von Moltke and Freya was (and still at 92) is his wife. He of course was caught and excuted after the botched attempt on Hitler's life. Cheers Arnold 4. Michael Spires (t40mjs1@WPO.CSO.NIU.EDU) It's not a primary-source reader, but there's an excellent bibliography in each section of Rolf-Dieter Müller and Gerd Ueberschär's book Hitler's War in the East: A Critical Assessment (Berghahn, 2002). Part C is probably where your student would find the most ideas about where to look. It deals with the ideological motivations of the "War of Annihilation" in the East, and has a section specific to the preparation of the Wehrmacht and its participation in the Vernichtungskrieg. A fair number of the sources referenced in the bibliographies are in German, but some are translated.
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