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      particularly important.

   Brewster, Eva. Vanished in Darkness. Edmonton: NeWest Publishers
   Limited, 1984. (First-person account of life within Auschwitz)

   Friedman, P. "Crimes in the Name of Science," in "Roads to Extinction:
   Essays on the Holocaust." Edited by A.J. Friedman. Philadelphia, 1980

   Gilbert, M. Auschwitz and the Allies. New York, 1981

   Gutman, Yisrael, and Michael Berenbaum, Ed. Anatomy of the 
   Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: 1994

   Gutman, Y., and A. Saf, eds. The Nazi Concentration Camps:
   Structure and Aims; The Image of the Prisoner; The Jews in the
   Camps. Proceedings of the Fourth Yad Vashem International
   Historical Conference. Jerusalem, 1984

   Hoess, R. Commandant of Auschwitz. London, 1959

   Ja"ckel, Eberhard, and H. David Kirk, trans. David Irving's Hitler.
   Port Angeles, Washington: Ben-Simon Publications, 1993

   Kielar, W. Anus Mundi: Fifteen Hundred Days in Auschwitz-
   Birkenau. New York, 1980

   Kudlien, F., ed. A"rzte im Nationalsoczialismus. Cologne, 1985


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   Lagnato, Lucette Matalon and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the
   Flames. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991 (Mengele's
   experimentation with twins at Auschwitz)

   Langbein, H. Auschwitz-Prozess: Eine Dokumentation. 2 Vols.
   Vienna, 1965

   Langbein, H. Menschen in Auschwitz. Vienna, 1972

   Lifton, R.J. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychiatry 
   of Genocide." New York, 1986

   Levi, P. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. New
   York, 1981

   Lukowski, J. Bibliografia obozu koncentracyjnego Oswiecim-
   Brzezinka. 5 vols. Warsaw, 1970

   Mark, B. The Scrolls of Auschwitz. Tel Aviv, 1985

   Mitscherlich, A., and F. Mielke. Doctors of Infamy: The Story of
   Medical Crimes. New York, 1949

   Mu"ller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.
   New York: Stein and Day, 1979

   Nauman, Bernd.  Auschwitz: A Report on The Procedings Against Robert
   Karl Ludwig Mulka and Others Before the Court at Frankfurt. New York:
   Frederick A. Praeger, 1966

   Piper, Franciszek, and Teresa Swiebocka, Ed. Auschwitz, Nazi Death
   Camp. Oswiecim, 1996. Book supplied by the Auschwitz State Museum.

   Piper, Franciszek. Auschwitz: How Many Perished - Jews, Poles,
   Gypsies... Oswiecim 1992.

   Proctor, R. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis. 
   Cambridge, Mass., 1988

   Keys, Laurinda. Death Books of Auschwitz. K.G. Saur, 1995. (See
   http://ftp.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?camps/auschwitz/press/death-books.001
   and ~/002 for information concerning the release of this work.)

   See also the Transcripts of the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
   http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/

Social Studies School Services offers an extensive list of teaching
materials dealing with the Holocaust, and Auschwitz.  For a list of
books, videotapes, and photo histories, see
http://www.nizkor.org/bibliographies/ssss.shtml.
Of particular interest are the videotapes "Kitty: Return to Auschwitz," 
"Nazi Concentration Camps," the official film record of the Nazi death 
camps as photographed by Allied liberation forces in 1945, and 
"Holocaust: Liberation of Auschwitz."


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 6.2 Abbreviations Used in Citations  

   The following abbreviations may be used throughout this document:

   IFZ.........Institut fu"r Zeitgeschichte, Munich
   IRR.........Investigative Repository Records
   NA..........United States National Archives
   RG 59.......NA Diplomatic Records
   RG 84.......Washington National Records Center, Diplomatic Post Records
   RG 153......Washington National Records Center, Records of the
               Office of the (Army) Judge Advocate
   RG 165......Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs,
               Washington National Records Center
   RG 208......Office of War Information Records, Washington National
               Records Center
   RG 226......Office of Strategic Services Records
   RG 238......War Crimes
     EC Series
     NG........Microfilm T-1139
     NI........Microfilm T-301
     NO Series
     NOKW Series
     PS Series
   RG 242......NA Record Group 242 - Captured German Records
   RG 319......Records of the Army Staff
   T...........NA Microfilm Series

   If you note any that are not explained above, please let me know,
   and I will try to run them down for you.
 
 6.3 Glossary
   
   Ahnenerbe: [Ancestral Heritage], The Institute for the Scientific
       Study of Ends and Purposes, located in Berlin. 
(http://ftp.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?people/e/eichmann.adolf/eichmann.006)

   Einsatzgruppe: Battalion-sized, mobile, armed unit of police
   Einsatzgruppen: Battalion-sized, mobile, armed units of police,
       primarily Security Police and SD officials, which were used
       to attack and execute perceived enemies in conquered territories.
       (Brietman, 311)

   Einsatzkommando: Company-sized component of the Einsatzgruppen 
       (Ibid., 311)

   Gauleiter: Supreme territorial or regional party authority(-ies)
       (The term is both singular and plural). The Nazi Party divided
       Germany and some annexed territories into geographical units
       called Gaue, headed by a Gauleiter. (Ibid., 311)

   General Government: The Nazi-ruled state in central and eastern
       Poland. Headed by Governor Hans Frank. (Ibid., 311)

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   Final Solution: Euphemism for the extermination of European Jewry

   SD (Sicherheitsdienst): The SS Security Service

   Selektionen: (Selection) The process by which newly-arrived prisoners
       were divided into those capable of work, and those deemed unfit
       for work, i.e. those to be exterminated immediately.

   Sonderkommandos: Division of Einsatzgruppen, generally smaller than
       Einsatzkommando, but also a more general term for special
       commando units assigned particular functions. (Ibid., 311)

   Military rank - here's a list from Breitman (314) which lists SS
   ranks and the Western military equivalent:

   Oberstgruppenfu"hrer          General
   Obergruppenfu"hrer            Lieutenant General
   Gruppenfu"hrer                Major General
   Brigadefu"hrer                Brigadier General
   Oberfu"hrer                   between Brigadier & Colonel
   Standartenfu"hrer             Colonel
   Obersturmbannfu"hrer          Lieutenant Colonel
   Sturmbannfu"hrer              Major
   Hauptsturmfu"hrer             Captain
   Obersturmfu"hrer              First Lieutenant
   Unterscharfu"hrer             Corporal
   Rottenfu"hrer                 Private, First Class
   Sturmann                      Private
   SS-Mann                       no equivalent

 6.4 Works Cited

   Borkin, Joseph. The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben. New York: 
   The Free Press, 1978, and London: Macmillan Publishing Company. 

   Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final
   Solution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 

   Bubenickova, Ruzena. Tabory utrpeni a smrti. (Camps of Martyrdom and
   Death) Prague: Svoboda, 1969

   Conot, Robert E. Justice at Nuremberg. 
   New York: Harper and Row, 1983.  ISBN 0-06-015117-X

   Encyclopedia - See Gutman

   Feig, Konnilyn G. Hitler's Death Camps. LOC D810.J4 F36, 1981

   Fenelon, Fania, with Marcelle Routier.  Playing For Time.
   New York:Athenium, 1977.  ISBN 0-689-10796-X 

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   Fleming, Gerald. Hitler and the Final Solution. Berkeley, 1984

   Foner, Samuel P.  "Major Historical Fact Uncovered" SPOTLIGHT
   Vol.  XIX, Number 2, January 11, 1993) 

   Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust, Maps and Photographs. 
   New York: Mayflower Books, 1978. 

   Gutman, Israel, ed. in Chief, et al. Encyclopedia of the
   Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1990. ISBN 0-02-
   896090-4 (set) (Referenced in this FAQ as "Encyclopedia")

   Hoess, Rudolf. Commandant of Auschwitz: Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess.
   (As quoted in Sachar)

   Hilberg, Raul.  Commandant of Auschwitz (London: Weidenfeld and
   Nicholson, 1959)

   Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Holmes & Meier,
   1985. See 967-976.

   IFZ. The Institut Fuer Zeitgeschicthe, Munich, as quoted in their
   letter to Dr. Keren, March, 1992 

   Kenrick, Donald, and Grattan Puxon. Destiny of Europe's Gypsies.
   New York: Basic Books, 1972, as cited in Laska

   Klarsfield, Serge. The Holocaust and Neo-Nazi Mythomania, as quoted
   in Feig.

   Klee, Ernst, Willi Dressen, and Volker Riess, eds. 
   `The Good Old Days' -- The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and 
   Bystanders. Forward by H. Trevor-Roper. The Free Press, A division of
   Macmillan, Inc, 1988, ISBN 0-02-917425-2

   Langbein. Der Auschwitz Prozess. Vol. I, as quoted in Pressac.

   Laska, Vera, ed.  Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The
   Voices of Eyewitnesses.  London: Greenwood Press, 1983.  LOC 82-12018,
   ISBN 0-313-23457-4

   Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys. Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1947, as cited in
   Hilberg. 

   Lukas, Richard C. "The Polish Experience during the Holocaust"  in
   Michael Berenbaum, ed.  A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and
   Murdered by the Nazis (New York : New York University Press, 1990)

   Mu"ller, Filip.  "Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas
   Chambers", as cited by both Feig and Hilberg.  Museum w Oswiecimu.
   "KL Auschwitz seen by the SS Hoess, Broad, Kremer," 2nd.  ed., 1978

   Naumann,. Auschwitz.

   Nurowski, Roman. 1939-1945: War Losses in Poland (Poznan, 1960),
   as cited in Lukas.

   Poliakov, Leon.  Harvest of Hate: The Nazi Program for the
   Destruction of the Jews of Europe.  Syracuse University Press.,
   1956.

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   Pressac, J. C. Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers.
   New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989

   Rogers, Perry M., ed. Aspects of Western Civilization

   Sachar, Abram L. The Redemption of the Unwanted. New York: 
   St. Martin's/Marek, 1983.

   Snyder, Dr. Louis L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. (New York: Paragon
   House, 1989.) 

   Steinfels, Peter. "Auschwitz Revisionism:  An Israeli Scholar's Case," 
   New York Times, 12 Nov. 1989 

   von Lang, Jochen, in collaboration with Claus Sibyll. Eichmann
   Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police.
   Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. New York: Farrar, Straus
   & Giroux, 1983

   Wiesel, Elie. Night. (New York, 1969), as cited in Hilberg.

   Yoors, Jan. A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II.
   New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971, as cited in Laska

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