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Population, economics and genocide: Aly and Heim versus all-comers in the interpretation of the Holocaust*

Part of: Historiographical Reviews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Martyn Housden
Martyn Housden
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University of Bradford
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The Historical Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , June 1995 , pp. 479 - 486
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

References

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5 Ibid. pp. 15–16.

6 Ibid. pp. 385 ff.

7 Ibid. pp. 391–2.

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15 For example, Walther Emmerich (Frank's secretary of state for economics) and the Institut für deutsche Ostforschung which the Governor General set up himself in Cracow.

16 A full copy of Hans Frank's Diensttagebuch (hereafter DTB) is located in the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz (Bestand R 52 II) although in due course it will be moved to Potsdam. An edited collection of the diary has been provided by Jacobmeyer, W. (ed.), Das Diensttagebuch des Deutschen Generalgouvernor in Polen 1930–45 (DVA Stuttgart, 1975)Google Scholar, but it is not perfect. See Breitman, R.The architect of genocide. Himmler and the final solution (Bodley Head, 1991), p. 282, footnote 139.Google Scholar

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35 DTB, R 52 II/206 3 August 1943.

36 DTB, R 52 II/203 28 and 29 May 1943.

37 DTB, R 52 II/205 9 July 1943.

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