Table of Contents:
Part 1 The search for the final solution: forced emigration and pogroms before September, 1939 - the Nuremberg laws and the consequences of Munich, the week of broken glass, the Schacht plan and its failure, Heydrich and Eichmann, emigration after the outbreak of war; deportations, 1939-1941 - "the strengthening of German folkdom", the first deportations into Poland, deportations inside the general government; the ghettoes, 1940-1942 - economic elimination, "the Jewish state", Jewish labour and labour camps in the general government; the Madagascar project - the deportations to Lodz and Russia, June 1940-January 1942 - the effects of the conquest of the West, the Fuehrer order, the Reich Jews deported to Lodz, the deportations to Russia; the Gross-Wannsee conference and the Auschwitz plan - the Gross-Wannsee conference, the Russian plan superseded, the Auschwitz plan, the Auschwitz plan in action; the gas chambers - "the charitable foundation", the Polish death camps and their evolution, Zyklon B versus internal combustion; the fate of the Reich Jews and the fight for exemption - the deportations from the greater Reich, January 1942 to May 1943, Theresienstadt, the privileged ghetto, sterilization. Part 2 The final solution in practice: the Soviet Union 1 - the Einsatzgruppen - the commanders, devolution of authority, the complicity of the Wehrmacht, civilian responsibility and the Russian ghettoes, executioners and methods; the Soviet Union 2 -the massacres - the Baltic states, White Russia, the Ukraine, the Black Sea coast, Crimea and Caucasus; action Reinhardt, the extermination of the Jews of Poland, 1942 - the action begins -Chelmno, the action spreads - Belsec, the Warsaw resettlement, a change of plan; the liquidation of the Polish and Russian ghettoes, 1943-44 - the Warsaw ghetto rebellion, the liquidation of the remaining ghettoes in Poland and Russia, the ghettoes replaced by labour camps, the Russians reinvade Poland; France -the wooing of Vichy, the great round-up of July 1942, and after, the Italian intervention, the final solution not achieved; other Western European countries - Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Norway, Italy; Jugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria - Jugoslavia - the Belgrade ghetto, Jugoslavia (Croatia), Greece, Bulgaria; Slovakia and Rumania - Slovakia, Rumania accepts the final solution, Rumania rejects the final solution; Hungary - before the German intervention, the deportations, end of Auschwitz deportations, the Hungarian Jews for sale, the last deportation and the fall of Budapest; Jewry in the break-up of the Third Reich - the end of Auschwitz, the Red Cross intervention, Himmler breaks his word, Goetterdaemmerung; appendices.