Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Foreword ix
Author's Introduction xiii
Abbreviations for Sources used in the book xix
Part I The Hell Called Belzec xxi
Chapter I 'Aktion Reinhardt' An Overview 1
Chapter II The Labor Camps in the Belzec Area 11
Chapter III Construction of the Death Camp November 1941-February 1942 23
Chapter IV Recruitment into Aktion Reinhardt: T4 & Trawniki 31
Chapter V Descent into Mass Murder The First Phase March-June 1942 41
Chapter VI Camp Expansion-New Gas Chambers Second Phase: June-July 2942 59
Chapter VII The Killing Frenzy Visit of Kurt Gerstein and Wilhelm Pfannenstiel & The Deportations from Lemberg-August 1942 71
Chapter VIII Jewish Work Brigades 85
Chapter IX Transports of Death: Eyewitness Accounts 93
Chapter X The End of the Slaughter 113
Chapter XI Exhumation and Cremation November 1942-March 1943 117
Chapter XII The Final Days 121
Part II Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators and the Aftermath 127
Chapter XIII Jewish Survivors and Victims 129
Chapter XIV The Perpetrators 229
Chapter XV Wartime Reports About the Death Camp 279
Chapter XVI The Long Road to Justice 285
Chapter XVII The Paintings of Waclaw Kolodziejcyk 293
Chapter XVIII The Number of Victims 297
Chapter XIX The Archaeological Excavations 299
Epilogue 319
Illustrations and Sources 331
Drawings, Maps and Sources 361
Documents and Sources 365
Appendix 1 377
Appendix 2 381
Appendix 3 387
Appendix 4 389
Selected Bibliography 395
Acknowledgements 401
Index of Names 403
