"The Good old days" : the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders

"The brutalization of precious German manpower" : the occupation of Poland. Notes of eastern territories commander Johannes Blaskowitz ; Bloody Wednesday in Olkusz/Ilkenau ; "Foreign Service"

"Each time a victim was beaten to death they started to clap" : pogroms in Kaunas and elsewhere in Lithuania. "Initially difficult to set a pogrom in motion" ; "Cheers and laughter" ; "If they get their revenge, we're in for a hard time" ; "Total 137,346"

"Pushed to their psychological limits" : members of the Einsatzgruppen on the stresses and strains of killing. "If the victims didn't do as they were told" : problems during mass shootings ; "It took nerves of steel" : the murder of 33,771 Jews in the Babi Yar ravine (29/30 September 1941) ; "A new and better method of killing had to be found" : the gas-vans

"Quite happy to take part in shooting" : forced to obey orders : the myth

"Once again I've got to play general to the Jews"

"Execution as popular entertainment" : the murder of Jews as a public spectacle. "Soldiers sitting on rooftops and platforms watching the show" ; "Scores of soldiers, some in bathing trunks, watching the proceedings" ; "When the Jews saw how easy it was to be executed" ; "Present at the execution with heads of other authorities" ; "The Twelve Toppers and a little hat" ; "The execution area was visited by scores of German spectators"

"In the interest of maintaining military discipline" : the massacre of children in Byelaya Tserkov, military chaplains and the Wehrmacht. An officer cadet on the killing of the adults ; Report by the military chaplain, Dr. Reuss, to Lieutenant-Colonel Groscurth ; Report by Wehrmachtoberpfarrer Kornmann ; Lieutenant-Colonel Groscurth's report to C.-in-C. Sixth Army, Field Marshall von Reichenau ; Report by military chaplains Tewes and Wilczek ; Statement by C.-in-C. Sixth army, Field Marshall von Reichenau ; SS-Obersturmführer August Häfner on the killing of the children

"Practical work for our Führer". Letters by Gendarmerie chief Fritz Jacob ; A Gendarmerie Oberwachtmeister's photographs ; Letters of SS-Obersturmführer Karl Kretschmer

"His attitude toward the Jews is quite impossible". "The bodies piled up in the streets" ; "The action rid me of unnecessary mouths to feed" ; "Eliminate the Jews once and for all" ; A "quite literally slavish" attitude to the Jews ; "None of the Jews that were killed is any great loss"

PART TWO: "DELIVERED AND KILLED" : the extermination centres. "Their soldierly conduct is exemplary". Photographs ; Theodor Malzmuller on the "plague boils of humanity" ; Gas-van driver Walter Burmeister on whether he ever thought about what he was doing ; Kurt Mobius on the guilt of the Jews and his own lack of blame ; Interrogation of Adolf Eichmann ; Gauleiter Greiser to Himmler, 19 March 1943

"The Wannsee Conference decisions implemented". SS-Untersturmführer Josef Oberhauser on the early days at Belzec ; Erich Fuchs on his duties at Sobibor ; The train journey to Belzec ; "The camp had clean sanitary facilities" ; The first day at Treblinka ; "It was my job to shoot these people" ; Kurt Franz on the end of Treblinka

"Food in the officers' mess excellent". "I only took part in the murder of some three million people out of consideration of my family" ; "Grabner ordered me to put Zyklon B into the opening" ; "There was Bulgarian red wine and Croatian plum brandy" ; "The highest number of gassings in a day was 10,000" ; "So that in the future it would be impossible to establish how many people had been burnt" : Rudolf Höss of the elimination of the mass graves

Notes:

Translation of: "Schöne Zeiten."