Black series (The time of National Socialism)

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The Black Series is a series of books by Fischer-Verlag , which has been officially running since 1988 under the name The Era of National Socialism . It has been developed since 1977 by Walter Pehle , who acted as its editor from 1988 to 2011. Also in 1988, after around 100 volumes, the already established Black Series changed its official name. Their external appearance is usually a black envelope, white, no-frills writing and a documentary photo. The first volume in the series was the Nürnberger Tagebuch from 1962, a documentation of the conversations between the American forensic psychologist Gustave M. Gilbert and the accused war criminals. With now more than 250 titles, this is the "most extensive book series" ( Raul Hilberg ) during the time of National Socialism . It includes reports on experiences, memoirs, scientific monographs and documentation as well as anthologies - always up to date with research. The black series is aimed at a scientifically interested as well as a broad audience. The book accompanying the US television series " Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family ", published in 1979, also belongs here .

In 1990 the comprehensive study "The Destruction of European Jews" by the American historian Raul Hilberg appeared as an updated paperback edition in three volumes. It forms the thematic core of the Black Series, in which historians such as Götz Aly , Frank Bajohr , Wolfgang Benz , Włodzimierz Borodziej , Michael Burleigh , Ulrich Herbert , Ernst Klee , Gideon Greif , Dieter Schenk , Gerd R. Ueberschär and Wolfram Wette have published; Scientists from other fields also have their say, for example the social psychologist Harald Welzer with his book “Perpetrators - How normal people become mass murderers”.

A sub-series has been part of the program since 1991, edited by Wolfgang Benz, who was head of the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin until 2011 . Reports from survivors of National Socialism are published in it under the title “ Pictures of Life, Jewish Memories and Testimonies ”.

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