German Foreign Office Documents on the Holocaust in Greece (1937-1944)

Presents 134 facsimiles of German documents (pp. 195-461), arranged chronologically. Pp. 59-193 contain a list of the documents in English, and translations of one-third of them into English, with summaries of the rest. The documents elucidate the role of the German Foreign Office in facilitating the Nazi racial policy. The introduction (pp. 11-57) presents an account of the events that led to the deportation of Greek Jews. The documents portray the cooperation between the Foreign Office and the Central Office of Reich Security, which resulted in the fact that only 12,000 of over 70,000 Greek Jews survived. The documents relate to five periods and subjects: data gathering, the delay in implementing the racial laws, the carrying out of the regulations and the deportation of Salonika's Jews, Foreign Office concern with the remaining non-Greek Jews, and the deportation of Jews from areas that the Germans took over from the "uncooperative" Italians. Concludes that the documents reveal the importance of personality and motivation in the conduct of the diplomats who participated in implementing the Final Solution.