Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the JewsA comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was not a mere by-product of the Nazis' political mobilization or an attempt to deflect the attention of the masses, but that anti-Jewish policy was a central tenet of the Nazi movement's attempts to implement, disseminate, and secure National Socialist rule - and one which crucially shaped Nazi policy decisions, from their earliest days in power through to the invasion of the Soviet Union and the Final Solution. As Longerich shows, the 'disappearance' of Jews was designed as a first step towards a racially homogeneous society - first within the 'Reich', later in the whole of a German-dominated Europe. |
Contents
Segregation and Comprehensive Discrimination 19351937 | |
The Removal of Jews from German | |
The Intensification of the Racial Persecution of NonJewish | |
Comprehensive Deprivation of Rights and Forced | |
The Mass Murder of Jewish | |
The Transition from AntiSemitic Terror to Genocide | |
Extending the Shootings | |
Plans for a EuropeWide Deportation Programme after | |
Beginning of the Deportations and Regional | |
The Wannsee Conference | |
The Beginning of the Extermination Policy on a European | |
The Further Development of the Policy of Extermination | |
The Politics of Organized Expulsion | |
THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS 19391941 | |
German Occupation and the Persecution of the Jews | |
Deportations | |
Laying the Ground for a War of Racial Annihilation | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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