Holocaust

A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, demonstrating just how central anti-semitism was to Nazi ideology and what a driving force it was in the development of Nazi decision-making, from their earliest days in power through to the invasion of the Soviet Union and the implementation of the Final Solution.

(Oxford)

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New York Review of Books A profound study... it supplies the best account we have of the relationship between anti-Semitism and mass murder, and conveys a melancholy plausibility.

Times Literary Supplement, Richard J Evans Carefully written, scholarly, and measured in tone, it deserves to be in the library of everyone interested in the history.

Times Literary Supplement, Richard J. Evans' book of the year. d [Holocaust: The Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews] must surely be the most thorough and reliable account of Nazi policy... Carefully written, scholarly, and measured in tone, it deserves to be in the library of everyone interested in the history of the greatest genocide in history.

The Atlantic, Longerich has reconstructed and imposed as much narrative order as possible on a tangle of political, military, and administrative processes.

The Atlantic A Book of the Year.

Chicago Jewish Star Meticulous...magisterial....Longerich's monumental work will hereafter be referred to as the classic text to study.

Times Literary Supplement Important study.

William Chislett, El Imparacial Madrid A landmark in Holocaust hisory.

Booklist Superb and provocative work...A vital addition to the field of Holocaust studies.

Booklist Skeptics who maintain there is little of value left to learn about the Holocaust should read this.

(Oxford)

Introduction; 1. The exclusion of the Jews from public life (1933-4); 2. Segregation and systematic discrimination (1934-7); 3. Systematic disfranchisement and expulsion (autumn 1937 to the outbreak of war); 4. Persecution of the Jews 1939-41; 5. The mass murder of Jewish civilians in the Soviet Union (1941); 6. The genesis of the Final Solution; 7. The initiation of a policy of extermination on a European scale; 8. The policy of extermination after 1942; 9. Conclusion: the four incremental stages of the policy of extermination; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of places

(Oxford)