Peter Longerich - Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews

HOLOCAUST

The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews

PETER LONGERICH

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The publishers would like to extend their especial thanks to Professor Jeremy Noakes for his editorial contribution to the preparation of the English edition of this book.

It would be impossible to list by name all the friends, colleagues, and other people who in one way or another have contributed to the writing of this book.

I will therefore restrict myself to thanking the many archivists and librarians who have helped me, as well as all my colleagues, both in Germany and abroad, who have given me the opportunity to discuss various sections of the book and some of the arguments to be found within it at various conferences, lectures, and seminars. In fact, I would like to thank everyone with whom I have discussed this subject, in whatever context, over the years.

The whole project would have been impossible without the generous assistance of the German Department of Royal Holloway College, who once again generously gave me leave from my regular academic duties. I would like to thank all my colleagues and students, in particular Maire Davies and Bill Jones. A ten-month research residency at the International Research Centre of the Israeli Centre for Remembrance and Research at Yad Vashem proved particularly enlightening, for which I am very grateful to Israel Gutman, who was at that time the director of the institute. I would also like to thank the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Universitt der Bundeswehr in Munich, in particular Michael Wolffsohn and Merith Niehuss, to whom I submitted the original version of this book as my post-doctoral thesis.

The whole project would have been impossible without the generous assistance of the German Department and the School of Modern Languages, Literature, and Culture of Royal Holloway College. I would like to thank all my colleagues and students. In particular I would like to express my deep gratitude to Jeremy Noakes without whom the English edition would not exist.

London and Munich, November 2009