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Klappentext An authoritative and compelling account of the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy between 1939 and 1942. Zusammenfassung The Nazi holocaust haunts the modern imagination as a compelling example of organised human atrocity on a mass scale. This authoritative account of the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy seeks to answer fundamental questions about what actually happened! and why! between the outbreak of war and the emergence of the Final Solution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Prelude to Genocide: 1. Nazi resettlement policy and the search for a solution to the Jewish question, 1939-1941; 2. Nazi ghettoization policy in Poland, 1939-41; Part II. Conflicting Explanations: 3. German technocrats, Jewish labor, and the Final Solution: a reply to Götz Aly and Susanne Heim; 4. The holocaust as by-product? A critique of Arno Mayer; 5. 'Intentionalism' and 'Functionalism': the decision for the Final Solution reconsidered; Part III. The Perpetrators: Accommodation, Anticipation and Conformity: 6. Bureaucracy and mass murder: the German administrator's comprehension of the Final Solution; 7. Genocide and public health: German doctors and Polish Jews, 1939-1941; 8. One day in Józefów: initiation to mass murder.
