Awards

• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2016
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2016.
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2016
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2016

Overview

In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party’s chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining Rosenberg’s diary notes with additional key documents and in-depth analysis, this book shows Rosenberg’s crucial role in the Nazi regime’s anti-Jewish policy. In the second half of 1941 the territory administered by Rosenberg became the region where the mass murder of Jewish men, women, and children first became a systematic pattern. Indeed, months before the emergence of German death camps in Poland, Nazi leaders perceived the occupied Soviet Union as the area where the “final solution of the Jewish question” could be executed on a European scale. Covering almost the entire duration of the Third Reich, these previously inaccessible sources throw new light on the thoughts and actions of the leading men around Hitler during critical junctures that led to war, genocide, and Nazi Germany’s final defeat.

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Alfred Rosenberg saw himself as the arbiter of Nazi ideology and the architect of German 'living space' in his native European East. Though fitted out with corresponding titles, he became neither, but instead one of the most massive plunderers of all time. This diary-expertly introduced, contextualized, and annotated by two outstanding scholars-conveys Rosenberg's ideational fixations, cold-blooded murderousness, childlike submission to his Fuhrer, and carping engagement in the rivalries of the Reich's leadership. Readers will find ample confirmation of Goebbels' remark that Rosenberg's beliefs were 'so cold and confrontational that one shudders.' -- Peter Hayes, Northwestern University This first English-language edition of Alfred Rosenberg's diary brings into sharp and stunning relief how the Nazi party's self-declared chief ideologue transformed the regime's sweeping goals into radical reality. Eager to excel in the struggle against his competitors among Hitler's closest followers, Rosenberg played a key role in organizing the systematic looting of art, in the exploitation of occupied Eastern Europe, and in the passing of the threshold from the persecution of Jews to genocide. The editors provide compelling new insights not only into the interrelation between ideology and practice in the Third Reich, but also into the crucial importance of Rosenberg's attempts as Reich minister for the occupied Soviet Union to establish his realm of influence as the center for the murderous execution of the Final Solution in Europe. -- Sybille Steinbacher, University of Vienna

One of the most important publications on Nazi history of the last years...This book will be part of the future canon of the literature on Nazi history. Die Zeit Alfred Rosenberg saw himself as the arbiter of Nazi ideology and the architect of German 'living space' in his native European East. Though fitted out with corresponding titles, he became neither, but instead one of the most massive plunderers of all time. This diary-expertly introduced, contextualized, and annotated by two outstanding scholars-conveys Rosenberg's ideational fixations, cold-blooded murderousness, childlike submission to his Fuhrer, and carping engagement in the rivalries of the Reich's leadership. Readers will find ample confirmation of Goebbels' remark that Rosenberg's beliefs were 'so cold and confrontational that one shudders.' -- Peter Hayes, Northwestern University This first English-language edition of Alfred Rosenberg's diary brings into sharp and stunning relief how the Nazi party's self-declared chief ideologue transformed the regime's sweeping goals into radical reality. Eager to excel in the struggle against his competitors among Hitler's closest followers, Rosenberg played a key role in organizing the systematic looting of art, in the exploitation of occupied Eastern Europe, and in the passing of the threshold from the persecution of Jews to genocide. The editors provide compelling new insights not only into the interrelation between ideology and practice in the Third Reich, but also into the crucial importance of Rosenberg's attempts as Reich minister for the occupied Soviet Union to establish his realm of influence as the center for the murderous execution of the Final Solution in Europe. -- Sybille Steinbacher, University of Vienna

Alfred Rosenberg saw himself as the arbiter of Nazi ideology and the architect of German 'living space' in his native European East. Though fitted out with corresponding titles, he became neither, but instead one of the most massive plunderers of all time. This diary-expertly introduced, contextualized, and annotated by two outstanding scholars-conveys Rosenberg's ideational fixations, cold-blooded murderousness, childlike submission to his Fuhrer, and carping engagement in the rivalries of the Reich's leadership. Readers will find ample confirmation of Goebbels' remark that Rosenberg's beliefs were 'so cold and confrontational that one shudders.' -- Peter Hayes, Northwestern University This first English-language edition of Alfred Rosenberg's diary brings into sharp and stunning relief how the Nazi party's self-declared chief ideologue transformed the regime's sweeping goals into radical reality. Eager to excel in the struggle against his competitors among Hitler's closest followers, Rosenberg played a key role in organizing the systematic looting of art, in the exploitation of occupied Eastern Europe, and in the passing of the threshold from the persecution of Jews to genocide. The editors provide compelling new insights not only into the interrelation between ideology and practice in the Third Reich, but also into the crucial importance of Rosenberg's attempts as Reich minister for the occupied Soviet Union to establish his realm of influence as the center for the murderous execution of the Final Solution in Europe. -- Sybille Steinbacher, University of Vienna One of the most important publications on Nazi history of the last years...This book will be part of the future canon of the literature on Nazi history. Die Zeit

This first English-language edition of Alfred Rosenberg's diary brings into sharp and stunning relief how the Nazi party's self-declared chief ideologue transformed the regime's sweeping goals into radical reality. Eager to excel in the struggle against his competitors among Hitler's closest followers, Rosenberg played a key role in organizing the systematic looting of art, in the exploitation of occupied Eastern Europe, and in the passing of the threshold from the persecution of Jews to genocide. The editors provide compelling new insights not only into the interrelation between ideology and practice in the Third Reich, but also into the crucial importance of Rosenberg's attempts as Reich minister for the occupied Soviet Union to establish his realm of influence as the center for the murderous execution of the final solution in Europe. -- Sybille Steinbacher, University of Vienna

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Jürgen Matthäus is director of the Applied Research Division at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Frank Bajohr is director of the Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich.

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