ABSTRACT

The Final Solution clarifies the key questions surrounding the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. Drawing on important new research, these authoritative essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the 'Final Solution' and examine the immediate origins of the genocidal decision.

Contributors also examine the responses of peoples and governments in Germany, occupied Europe, the USA and among Jews worldwide. The controversial conversions of this study challenge many of our accepted ideas about the period.

chapter |30 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

Part I ANTECEDENTS, PRECONDITIONS AND LEGITIMATION

part |2 pages

Part III THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FINAL SOLUTION AND RESPONSES

chapter 10|16 pages

THE HOLOCAUST IN LITHUANIA

Some unique aspects

chapter 11|19 pages

TYPES OF GENOCIDE?

Croatians, Serbs and Jews, 1941–5

chapter 14|18 pages

RESCUE THROUGH STATEHOOD

The American Zionist response to the Holocaust

chapter 15|22 pages

DIFFERENT WORLDS

British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second World War

chapter 16|21 pages

ENMITY, INDIFFERENCE OR COOPERATION

The Allies and Yishuv’s rescue activists

part |2 pages

Part IV HISTORIOGRAPHY