Table of Contents:
  • 1. Background
  • 2. Poland, laboratory of racial policy: Abdication of the army ; Racial policy and terror
  • 3. The search for a final solution through expulsion, 1939-1941: Eichmann and the Nisko plan ; The Baltic Germans, the first short-range plan, and the Warthegau deportations ; The curbing of Nazi deportation plans, January-February 1940 ; The intermediate plan, the Stettin deportations, and the Volhynian action, February-July 1940 ; The army, from abdication to complicity ; The Madagascar plan ; The last spasms of expulsion policy, fall 1940-spring 1941
  • 4. The Polish ghettos: Ghettoization ; Exploitation ; Production or starvation, the ghetto managers' dilemma
  • 5. Germany and Europe: Racial persecution inside Germany, 1939-1941 ; The Nazi sphere of influence
  • 6. Preparing for the "war of destruction": Military preparations for the "war of destruction" ; Preparations of the SS ; Economic and demographic preparations for "Operation Barbarossa" / by Christopher R. Browning and Jürgen Matthäus
  • 7. Operation Barbarossa and the onset of the Holocaust, June-December 1941 / by Jürgen Matthäus: German perceptions and expectations regarding "the east" ; Early anti-Jewish measures and the mid-July turning point ; Pogroms and collaboration ; Toward the Final Solution, August-December 1941 ; The Final Solution in the east
  • 8. From war of destruction to the Final Solution: Euphoria of victory and decision making, July-October 1941 ; Consternation and anticipation ; Inventing the extermination camp
  • 9. The Final Solution from conception to implementation, October 1941-March 1942: Deportations from Germany, the first and second waves ; Integrating the bureaucracy into the Final Solution ; The gassing begins
  • 10. Conclusion: Hitler and the decision-making process in Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942 ; Germans and the Final Solution.