Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Publisher's acknowledgements; Note on place names; List of maps; Chronology; Who's who; Glossary; Maps; PART ONE ANALYSIS; 1 STUDYING THE HOLOCAUST; Holocaust and genocide; Who is right?; Studying the Holocaust historically; 2 THE JEWS; Jewish origins; The Jews in Christian Europe; In modern times; 3 HITLER, NAZIS, GERMANS, AND JEWS; The Jews in Hitler's world view; Jews in the ideology and programme of Nazism; Jews in German public opinion; True believers and the First World War; Ordinary men or ordinary Germans?

4 1933-41: A TWISTED ROAD?A diabolical plot of the work of 'only men'?; The state of documentation; A step-by-step process?; Jewish policy and global strategy; 5 RESPONDING TO PERSECUTION; Perceiving the threat; To leave or not to leave?; Communal leadership: coping and resisting; Zionism, German Jewry, and world Jewry; External obstacles to emigration; 6 THE TRANSITION TO KILLING; Why begin killing?; The means of murder; Organizing the transports; 7 RESPONDING TO MURDER; Information and imagination; Communal responsibility and strategies for survival; The unofficial community and resistance

Local non-Jewish leaders and populations: opposition and complicityBeyond the Nazi realm; 8 HUMANITY, MODERNITY, AND THE HOLOCAUST; PART TWO DOCUMENTS; 1 The definition of 'genocide', by the word's inventor; 2 From an early speech by Hitler about the Jews; 3 An ex-Nazi evaluates the anti-Jewish aspect of National Socialism, 1939; 4 Hitler and Horthy discuss the fate of Hungarian Jewry, April 1943; 5 Kristallnacht in German public opinion; 6 Germans confront the deportation of their Jewish neighbours, 1941; 7 The Lublin reservation

8 A German Jewish editor assesses the impact of the Nuremberg laws9 A German Jewish woman describes her experience in the early Nazi years; 10 A Jewish man commits suicide in protest over exclusion from the German nation; 11 A German Jewish leader describes the 'return to Judaism'; 12 A Zionist explains how his movement can help German Jews; 13 A Polish report describes conditions for Jews after the German conquest; 14 Goering instructs Heydrich to prepare a 'total solution' of the Jewish question

15 Notes by Goebbels on a meeting with Hitler concerning the implications of Germany's declaration of war against the United States16 Invitation to the Wannsee conference; 17 An eyewitness describes a mass shooting in the Soviet Union; 18 A Sonderkommando member describes the Bełżec killing centre; 19 The Polish underground reports the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto; 20 An early assessment of German policy towards Jews in occupied Poland; 21 The story of a mass shooting is met with disbelief; 22 The first Jewish intuition of a Nazi murder programme

23 A youth movement member becomes an underground courier

Fully revised and updated, this second edition includes:·   A much expanded selection of original documents, many never before anthologised in English·   Added treatment of the role of non-Germans in the Holocaust and the geographical variations in Jewish response·   Additional consideration of the much-debated nexus between the Holocaust and modernity·   A new section on how 'the Holocaust' developed as a distinct historical topic·   Useful and informative Chronology, Who's Who and Glossary David Engel's book is a taut, compact narration that appeals to the intellect as much, if not more, tha

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