ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the social, economic, and communal history of the German-Jewish immigrant must form the frame of reference within which the self-evaluations and ideological developments must be understood that are available in the written and unwritten sources of the Nazi period. Henry Kissinger had his impact on world politics as a social and political conservative representing a non-ideological foreign policy under Kennedy and Johnson. The pacifist-socialist Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that began the process that led to the construction of the first atomic bomb. The concentration on intellectual elites and public figures in research has dominated the "image" of the emigre of the Nazi period, at least in German-language research. Relatively little attention has been given to the large numbers of non elite Nazi victims in research conducted since the end of World War II.
