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Book SynopsisGermany's leading Holocaust scholar has crafted a concise, well-written, and powerful introduction to the subject, concluding with a discussion of what the Germans knew about the genocide.
Trade ReviewThis will be an essay of choice for anyone wishing a sophisticated description of the major aspects of the genocide of the Jews. -- Deborah E. Lipstadt Washington Post [T]he book pulls no punches, is well written, and is thorough in its presentation. -- Samuel Totten Canadian Social Studies Book Review By detailing the events that led Jews to be stripped of their rights, resettled in ghettos and deported to the killing centers, Benz's work provides and indisputable record of the Nazi genocide. Hadassah Magazine A good, short history of the Holocaust. Neue Zurcher Zeitung An example of superb analysis. Das Sonntagsblatt
Table of Contents1. Talks Followed by Breakfast: The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 2. German Jews and National Socialism: Self-Image and Threat 3. Exclusion and Discrimination of the Jews in Germany, 1933-1939 4. Jewish Emigration, 1933-1941 5. Aryanization and the Jewish Star: German Jews Are Totally Stripped of Their Civil Rights, 1939-1941 6. Ghettos in Occupied Eastern Europe: The Beginning of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question 7. From Antisemitism to Genocide: The Genesis of the Final Solution 8. Massacre in the East: Einsatzgruppen and Other Killing, 1941-1942Units in the Occupied Territories 9. The Deportation of the Jews from Germany 10. Theresienstadt 11. The Other Genocide: The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma 12. Industrialized Mass Murder in the Extermination Camps, by 1942-1944
