Holocaust history resources from Encyclopedia Brittanica, with 5 parts covering many subjects of interest to those studying the Holocaust.
More than a hundred articles comprise Britannica’s coverage of the Holocaust — including information that ranges from the rise of Hitler and the meaning of the swastika to a survey of the camps and the Holocaust in art and memory — and many of the entries have been written by renowned scholar and author Dr. Michael Berenbaum, the former director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Britannica’s coverage includes biographies, essays, photographs, and videos as well as discussion prompts appropriate for the classroom.
Part 1: Hitler and the Origins of the Holocaust
- Adolf Hitler
- Anti-Semitism
- Klaus Barbie
- Beer Hall Putsch
- Eva Braun
- Adolf Eichmann
- Genocide
- Gestapo
- Hans Frank
- Hermann Göring
- Julius Streicher
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Rudolf Hess
- Heinrich Himmler
- Kristallnacht
- Mein Kamp
- Nazi Party
- Nürnberg Laws
- Franz von Papen
- Alfred Rosenberg
- SA
- SS
- swastika
- Thyssen family
Part 2: The Holocaust
- The Holocaust
- Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust
- Anne Frank
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Film)
- Mordecai Anielewicz
- Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
- Auschwitz
- Baby Yar
- Belzec
- Bergen-Belsen
- Buchenwald
- Carl von Ossietzky
- Chelmno
- Concentration Camp
- Dachau
- Dinko Ljubomir Sakic
- Einsatzgruppen
- Extermination Camp
- Flossenbürg
- Gross-Rosen
- Gurs
- Gas chamber
- IG Farben Ilsa Koch
- Jean Cayrol
- John Demjanjuk
- Josef Kramer
- Josef Mengele
- Judenräte
- Life Is Beautiful (Film)
- Majdanek
- Martin Buber
- Mauthausen
- Menachem Begin
- Michel Thomas
- Mordecai Anielewicz
- Neuengamme-Ring
- Night and Fog Decree
- Nürnberg Trials
- Oskar Schindler
- Schindler’s List (Film)
- Plaszow
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Ravensbrück
- Rudolf Franz Hoess
- Sachsenhausen
- Siemens AG
- Sobibor
- Stutthof
- T4 Program
- Theresienstadt
- Treblinka
- Vught
- Wannsee Conference
- War Refugee Board
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Westerbork
- Yitzhak Zuckerman
Discussion Questions https://www.britannica.com/new-multimedia/pdf/holoca071.pdf
Part 3: The Allied Response: Should
the Allies Have Bombed the Camps?
Part 4: The Christian Response:
The Actions of the Church
- Pius XII
- German Christians
- Confessing Church
- Edith Stein
- Martin Niemöller
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer