Christian Wiese is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Sussex. His publications include The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions (2007) Paul Betts is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. His publications include Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (with Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann, 2008).

This collection of essays provides an exceptional compendium of informed and thought-provoking commentaries both justifiably honoring and critically assessing a masterwork of history, memory, and mourning that will, for the foreseeable future, be crucial in shaping the study and prompting newer understandings of the "final solution" and extreme historical processes in general. The reader...will be consistently challenged to rethink pre-existing approaches and interpretations.

• Introduction; An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Historiographical Issues; Part I: The Holocaust as a Narrative Problem; Part II: German Society and Redemptive Antisemitism; Part III: Mass Killings and Genocide; Part IV: Perspectives.

Christian Wiese is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Sussex. His publications include The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions (2007) Paul Betts is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. His publications include Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (with Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann, 2008).

This collection of essays provides an exceptional compendium of informed and thought-provoking commentaries both justifiably honoring and critically assessing a masterwork of history, memory, and mourning that will, for the foreseeable future, be crucial in shaping the study and prompting newer understandings of the "final solution" and extreme historical processes in general. The reader...will be consistently challenged to rethink pre-existing approaches and interpretations.

• Introduction; An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Historiographical Issues; Part I: The Holocaust as a Narrative Problem; Part II: German Society and Redemptive Antisemitism; Part III: Mass Killings and Genocide; Part IV: Perspectives.

Christian Wiese is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Sussex. His publications include The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions (2007) Paul Betts is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. His publications include Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (with Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann, 2008).

This collection of essays provides an exceptional compendium of informed and thought-provoking commentaries both justifiably honoring and critically assessing a masterwork of history, memory, and mourning that will, for the foreseeable future, be crucial in shaping the study and prompting newer understandings of the "final solution" and extreme historical processes in general. The reader...will be consistently challenged to rethink pre-existing approaches and interpretations.

• Introduction; An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Historiographical Issues; Part I: The Holocaust as a Narrative Problem; Part II: German Society and Redemptive Antisemitism; Part III: Mass Killings and Genocide; Part IV: Perspectives.