Germans and the Final Solution

David Bankier is Lady Davis Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been Visiting Lecturer at University College, London, the University of Capetown and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He is editor of The Holocaust: Perpetrators, Witnesses and Bystanders (1986).

"This is a subtle and well-documented argument that notably advances our understanding of German popular opinion towards the Nazis' anti-Semitic policies." Inside Out "A well written and important book that deserves to be widely read and to be placed in every public library." Times Higher Education Supplement"Bankier's book will be welcomed by anyone teaching German history, Nazism, or the Holocaust, because it is the first book to answer comprehensively the most common student question in any discussion of the Holocaust: What did average Germans know and how did they feel about Hitler's antisemitic propaganda and mass murder?" Choice

• Acknowledgements. Introduction.1. Image and Reality in the Third Reich.2. Institutionalization and Radicalization.3. International Crises and Foreign Policy.4. Public Responses to Anti-semitism 1933-1938.5. Workers, Peasants and Businessmen.6. The Awareness of the Holocaust.7. Public Responses to Anti-semitism 1939-1943.8. Image and Reality - The End.Conclusion.Notes.Bibliography.