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81.	"Total War": Excerpt from Goebbels’s Speech at the Sportpalast in Berlin (February 18, 1943) On February 18, 1943, Joseph Goebbels delivered the most famous speech of his career at the Berlin....
82.	The Fifth Broadsheet of the "White Rose" (January 1943) By offering active political resistance to the Nazi regime, the Munich student group known as the “White Rose” earned a special place in the history of Germany’s youth opposition. No doubt the best-known....
83.	Statistical Report on the "Final Solution," known as the Korherr Report (March 23, 1943) The most intense phase in the industrial annihilation of the Jews occurred between March 1942 and February 1943, when about two-thirds of the Nazis’ victims were killed. Murder on this scale entailed....
84.	Martin Bormann’s Circular of May 5, 1943, which included a Memorandum on the General Principles Governing the Treatment of Foreign Laborers Employed in the Reich (dated April 15, 1943) The situation on the Eastern Front worsened after the defeat of the German army near Stalingrad. As a result, Goebbels....
85.	Oswald Pohl’s Report to Heinrich Himmler on the Expansion of the Concentration Camps (April 30, 1942) After the outbreak of war, camp inmates were increasingly deployed in armaments production and mercilessly exploited in the process. With the integration of prisoners into wartime production, the....
86.	Goebbels’s Call for Retribution (June 5, 1943) To preserve the general population’s willingness to fight, Hitler had long resisted total war.....
87.	Count Helmuth James von Moltke’s Memo to Hans Wilbrandt and Alexander Rüstow on Conditions in Germany and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (July 9, 1943) Count Helmuth James von Moltke was born in 1907 into one of Prussia’s most distinguished noble families....
88.	Police President of Hamburg Report on Firestorm (August 1943) In 1940, British fighter planes had already started bombing military and economic targets on German territory. But it was a series of large-scale air assaults on German cities starting in 1942 that....
89.	SD Report on the Attitude of Young People towards the Nazi Party (August 12, 1943) Supported by the Hitler Youth, National Socialism pushed its way into virtually every aspect of the lives of German youth. By doing so, it sought to create new generations of young people who were....
90.	Martin Bormann’s Directive 55/43 (September 29, 1943) One particularity of Hitler’s regime was the lack of any formal regulation of the relationship between party and state. As a result, that relationship was characterized by turf battles and conflicts....
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