Sources of Holocaust research

• Preface
• p. 7

• 1
• Types of Sources
• p. 13

• Three-dimensional and two-dimensional materials. In three dimensions: structures and objects

• In two dimensions: pictorial and verbal items. In verbal form: documents and testimony

• Documentary: published and confidential. In confidential: circulating and noncirculating

• In circulating: directions of flow (orders, letters, reports)

• In noncirculating: personnel records, notes, official and private diaries

• Testimony: legal, interviews, oral history, memoirs

• 2
• Composition
• p. 50

• In documents: signing, sequences, formats, density, distribution, security classifications, notations, storage, survivability

• In testimony: answers to questions, segmentation, and complex themes

• 3
• Style
• p. 72

• Prosaic Formulations
• p. 73

• Lists and "problem solving."

• Special Words and Symbols
• p. 86

• Required nouns and favored verbs and adjectives

• Blunt and Blunted Language
• p. 106

• Unvarnished expression. Veiled usage in legitimation, in cover words, and in roundabout formulations

• Flourishes
• p. 121

• Iconic, vernacular, wit, wordplay, and irony

• 4
• Content
• p. 133

• Premises
• p. 134

• Basic presumptions and derivative postulations

• Kinds of Information
• p. 142

• Detail, nonoccurrence in coverage, hearsay

• Omissions
• p. 164

• In documents: excluded background known to recipients, and cryptic notation. In testimony: excluded background not known to readers; inability to describe experiences; self-censorship; initial reluctance and delayed disclosure

• Falsity
• p. 175

• Common errors in rendition, errors of memory, denial of facts, and fabrication

• 5
• Usability
• p. 184

• Principles of exploitation: significance, nonexchangeability, interlinkage

• Possibilities of exploitation: from exceptional releases to exceptional withholding

• Index
• p. 205