Nazi Holocaust

Ronnie S. Landau is former educational director of the Spiro Institute for the Study of Jewish History and Culture. Founding director of the British Holocaust Educational Project, he writes widely on modern Jewish history and is now head of humanities at the City Literary Institute, London.

An achievement ... without sacrificing its uniqueness or its universal implications. It is likely to become the model textbook. The American Spectator Ideal for the general reader and students alike. The Jewish Chronicle, UK A responsible and accessible survey ... subtle yet lucid ... most stimulating. Times Literary Supplement Ronnie Landau has written a quite remarkable book. The Times (UK) Landau comes as near as it is possible to making the Holocaust comprehensible... Essential. Jewish Quarterly Landau has assembled a heroic mass of documentation and offered a clear and concise analysis of the scale and effects of the Holocaust. The Tribune An outstanding introduction, clearly and intelligently written, to the historical events of the Holocaust, and to the moral and psychological questions raised by it. In considering the painfully particular as well as the universal aspects of this enormous event, Landau helps the reader to confront it within the frame of human experience, on a level we can all understand. -- Margot Stern Strom, author of Facing History and Ourselves

• Part I: IntroductionChapter 1: The Historical, Educational and Moral Significance of the HolocaustPart II: The Background and ContextChapter 2: Survey of Jewish History: c.300 B.C. to c.1700Chapter 3: The European Jew and the Modern WorldChapter 4: Nazism and Modern Germany: From National Unification to Hitler's Accession to PowerPart III: The Holocaust: A HistoryChapter 5: Nazi Germany, 1933–1938: Anti-Jewish Policy and LegislationChapter 6: Nazi Europe, 1938–1941: From Kristallnacht to Ghettoization in the EastChapter 7: The Holocaust, 1941–1945: From Dehumanization to AnnihilationPart IV: Themes, Issues and ProtagonistsChapter 8: Perpetrators, Victims, and BystandersChapter 9: The Jewish Question: Public Opinion in Nazi GermanyChapter 10: The Aftermath and Impact of the HolocaustBibliographyAppendix A: Euphemisms of DeathAppendix B: Yossel Rakover's Appeal to GodAppendix C: The Jewish Question: Excerpts from Hitler's WritingsAppendix D: The Programme of the National-Socialist German Workers' PartyAppendix E: The Nuremberg LawsAppendix F: German Foreign Ministry MemorandumAppendix G: Numbers of Jews Murdered in EuropeChronology of the Holocaust (1933–1945)Glossary of Basic TermsPrincipal Characters