Table of Contents

Author's Preface to the Third Edition ix

Author's Preface to the Second Edition xv

Author's Preface xix

Additional Reading xxv

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Historical, Educational and Moral Significance of the Holocaust 3

Part 1 The Background and Context

Chapter 2 Survey of Jewish History: c.300 BC to c. 1700 27

Chapter 3 The European Jew and the Modern World 51

Chapter 4 Nazism and Modern Germany: From National Unification to Hitler's Accession to Power 80

Part 2 The Holocaust: a History

Chapter 5 Nazi Germany, 1933-8: Anti-Jewish Policy and Legislation 123

Chapter 6 Nazi Europe, 1938-41: From Kristallnacht to Ghettoization in the East 144

Chapter 7 The Holocaust, 1941-5: From Dehumanization to Annihilation 174

Part 3 Themes, Issues and Protagonists

Chapter 8 Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders 199

Chapter 9 The Jewish Question: Public Opinion in Nazi Germany 242

Chapter 10 The Aftermath and Impact of the Holocaust 265

Notes 291

Bibliography 303

Appendix A Euphemisms of Death 317

Appendix B Yossel Rakover's Appeal to God 319

Appendix C The Jewish Question - Excerpts from Hitler's Writings 328

Appendix D The Programme of the National- Socialist German Workers' Party 337

Appendix E The Nuremberg Laws 341

Appendix F German Foreign Ministry Memorandum 344

Appendix G Numbers of Jews Murdered in Europe 348

Chronology of the Holocaust (1933-45) 349

Glossary of Basic Terms 362

Principal Characters 367

Index 374

Maps

The Jews of the Roman Empire, 100-300 AD 38

Expulsions, 1000-1500 46