The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation

by Cesarani; David

• ISBN13: 9780415099547
• ISBN10: 0415099544
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Final Solution sets out to clarify the key questions surrounding the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. The controversial results of this study challenge many of our accepted ideas about the period.The Final Solution clarifies the key questions surrounding the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. Drawing on important new research, these authoritative essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the 'Final Solution' and examine the immediate origins of the genocidal decision.Contributors also examine the responses of peoples and governments in Germany, occupied Europe, the USA and among Jews worldwide. The controversial conversions of this study challenge many of our accepted ideas about the period.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Volksgemeinschaft, 'Aryanization' and the Holocaust	p. 33
Euthanasia and the Final Solution	p. 51
The idea of the Final Solution and the role of experts	p. 62
Himmler, the architect of genocide	p. 73
The relation between Operation Barbarossa as an ideological war of extermination and the Final Solution	p. 85
Wehrmacht, Einsatzgruppen, Soviet POWs and anti-Bolshevism in the emergence of the Final Solution	p. 103
Operation Barbarossa and the origins of the Final Solution	p. 119
Hitler and the euphoria of victory: the path to the Final Solution	p. 137
The response of Polish Jewry to the Final Solution	p. 151
The Holocaust in Lithuania: some unique aspects	p. 159
Types of Genocide? Croatians, Serbs and Jews, 1941-5	p. 175
How far did Vichy France 'sabotage' the imperatives of Wannsee?	p. 194
German public awareness of the Final Solution	p. 215
Rescue through statehood: the American Zionist response to the Holocaust	p. 228
Different worlds: British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second World War	p. 246
Enmity, indifference or cooperation: the Allies and Yishuv's rescue activists	p. 268
Documents on the Holocaust in archives of the former Soviet Union	p. 291
Conclusion: the significance of the Final Solution	p. 300
Index	p. 310
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