Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1 Antecedents, preconditions and legitimation 1 Volksgemeinschaft, ‘Aryanization’ and the Holocaust 2 Euthanasia and the Final Solution 3 The idea of the Final Solution and the role of experts Part 2 Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht and the question of timing 4 Himmler, the architect of genocide 5 The relation between Operation Barbarossa as an ideological war of extermination and the Final Solution 6 Wehrmacht, Einsatzgruppen, Soviet POWs and anti-Bolshevism in the emergence of the Final Solution 7 Operation Barbarossa and the origins of the Final Solution 8 Hitler and the euphoria of victory: the path to the Final Solution Part 3 The implementation of the Final Solution and responses 9 The response of Polish Jewry to the Final Solution 10 The Holocaust in Lithuania: some unique aspects 11 Types of Genocide? Croatians, Serbs and Jews, 1941–5 12 How far did Vichy France ‘sabotage’ the imperatives of Wannsee? 13 German public awareness of the Final Solution 14 Rescue through statehood: the American Zionist response to the Holocaust 15 Different worlds: British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second World War 16 Enmity, indifference or cooperation: the Allies and Yishuv’s rescue activists Part 4 Historiography 17 Documents on the Holocaust in archives of the former Soviet Union Conclusion: the significance of the Final Solution
