The Holocaust provides a wealth of primary sources to examine how genocide unfolded in Eastern Europe. The Nazis spent years reshaping their government and constructing a society around the idea of racial purity. By examining primary source material, it is easy to see this progression. The following are made available (in English translation) for researchers, students, teachers, and anyone with an interest in this time period.

• Law Regarding the Sovereign Head of the German Reich
• Law to Remove Distress of People and State
• 25 Points of NSDAP

• Police Decree on Identification of Jews
• Directive on the Treatment of Jews in Ostland
• Solution to the Jewish Problem
• Order Eliminating Jews from German Economic Life
• Law on Passports of Jews
• The Reich Citizenship Law
• The Second Decree for the Execution on the Law Regarding the Change of the Surnames and Forenames
• Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
• Law Regarding Admission to the Bar
• Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service

• Schmidt Testimony on the Euthanasia Program
• Order Extending Euthanasia to Insane Eastern Workers
• Action 14 f 13 in the Concentration Camps
• Letter from Bishop of Limburg to the Reich Minister of Justice
• Letter from Dr. Conti to the Mental Hospital in Kaufbeuren
• Letter from Hitler to Karl Brandt
• Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases

• Decree Relating to the Payment of a Fine by the Jews of German Nationality
• Measures Against Jews Tonight

• Order of Protective Custody