The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation

by Cesarani; David

• ISBN13: 9780415152327
• ISBN10: 0415152321
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-10-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Final Solution provides new answers to key questions surrounding the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. Drawing on important new evidence, much of it from archives in Eastern Europe, the essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the "Final Solution" and the immediate origins of the decision. They consider the impact of the German invasion of Russia in June 1941 on the evolution of a genocidal policy and the response of the peoples and governments in Germany, occupied Europe, the Free World and the Jewish communities under the Nazis and in the West.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Antecedents, Preconditions and Legitimation	p. 31
Volksgemeinschaft, 'Aryanization' and the Holocaust	p. 33
Notes	p. 44
Euthanasia and the Final Solution	p. 51
Notes	p. 57
The Idea of the Final Solution and the Role of Experts	p. 62
Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht and the Question of Timing	p. 71
Himmler, the Architect of Genocide	p. 73
The Relation between Operation Barbarossa as an Ideological War of Extermination and the Final Solution	p. 85
Notes	p. 100
Wehrmacht, Einsatzgruppen, Soviet Pows and Anti-Bolshevism in the Emergence of the Final Solution	p. 103
Notes	p. 114
Operation Barbarossa and the Origins of the Final Solution	p. 119
Notes	p. 134
Hitler and the Euphoria of Victory	p. 137
The Implementation of the Final Solution and Responses	p. 149
The Response of Polish Jewry to the Final Solution	p. 151
Notes	p. 158
The Holocaust in Lithuania	p. 159
Types of Genocide?	p. 175
Notes	p. 191
How Far Did Vichy France 'sabotage' the Imperatives of Wannsee?	p. 194
German Public Awareness of the Final Solution	p. 215
Rescue through Statehood	p. 228
Different Worlds	p. 246
Enmity, Indifference or Cooperation	p. 268
Historiography	p. 289
Documents on the Holocaust in Archives of the Former Soviet Union	p. 291
Conclusion	p. 300
Notes	p. 309
Index	p. 310
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