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61.	Appeal by the Reich Leader of the German Labor Front, published in the Völkischer Beobachter (November 20, 1939) In the following except from the party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, Dr. Robert Ley, the leader....
62.	Himmler’s Response to Complaints regarding his "Procreation Decree" of October 28, 1939 (January 30, 1940) In 1939, neither the German public, nor the churches, nor various representatives of the state, the party, and the Wehrmacht were prepared to abandon their conservative social mores in favor of Himmler’s....
63.	Hans Kehrl Describes the Fragmented and Inefficient Management of the German Economy in the Fall of 1940 (Retrospective account, 1973) Like all other political areas, German economic and armaments planning was characterized by a multitude of competing authorities – a situation that on the one hand gave rise to great flexibility,....
64.	Excerpt from a Training Guide by SS-Sturmbannführer Paul Zapp on the "Jewish Question" (end of 1940) The outbreak of the war saw the considerable radicalization of Nazi racial policy, which eventually led to a policy of annihilation. With the invasion....
65.	Directive No. 21 Operation Barbarossa (December 18, 1940) The subjugation of Poland within four weeks was the prelude to Hitler’s campaign of conquest throughout Europe. In a series of blitzkrieg offensives, German forces quickly occupied the Benelux states,....
66.	Letter from the Head of the Security Police and the SD, Reinhard Heydrich, on the Classification of Concentration Camps (January 2, 1941) As early as March 1933, Himmler, then police president of Munich, had ordered the creation of the first Nazi concentration camp, which was located in nearby Dachau.....
67.	Directives for the Treatment of Political Commissars ("Commissar Order") (June 6, 1941) That Hitler did not see the pending invasion of Russia as a conventional war of territorial conquest....
68.	Goebbels's New Propaganda Instructions (June 22, 1941) Goebbels’s ministry had already been steering both the content and the style of German newspapers since 1933, when it started holding daily press....
69.	Martin Bormann’s Minutes of a Meeting at Hitler’s Headquarters (July 16, 1941) German occupation policy was determined by racial-ideological as well as economic considerations. At the same time that various party and state offices were drawing up plans for a thousand-year reordering....
70.	Excerpt from Bishop von Galen’s Sermon (August 3, 1941) and Government Correspondence Regarding the Sermon and the Charges Raised against Galen as a Result (August 12-13, 1941) After the publication of the papal encyclical in March 1937, Catholic resistance was completely....
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