The Holocaust

• List of Maps

• Acknowledgments

• Chronology

• Glossary

• Introduction: Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang

• Part I
• Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism

• Introduction

• 1
• Anti-Semites:

• 2
• From Weimar to Hitler:

• 3
• Nation and Race:

• 4
• Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935

• Part II
• A Racial Europe: Nazi Population and Resettlement Policy

• Introduction

• 5
• The Setting:

• 6
• Ghetto Formation:

• 7
• From "Ethnic Cleansing" to Genocide to the "Final Solution"

• The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939-1941:

• 8
• Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East:

• Part III
• War and the Turn to Genocide

• Introduction

• 9
• The "Commissar Decree," June 6, 1941

• 10
• Affidavit of SS Grueppenfuehrer Otto Ohlendorf

• 11
• Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation:

• 12
• From Mass Murder to the "Final Solution:"

• The Shooting of Jewish Civilians during the first months of the Eastern Campaign within the context of the Nazi Jewish Genocide:

• 13
• Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II:

• Part IV
• Whose "Final Solution"? Revisted Intentionalism and Functionalism

• Introduction

• 14
• Hitler's Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939

• 15
• Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942

• 16
• Intentions and the "Final Solution:" Berel Lang

• 17
• A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism:

• 18
• Justice Jackson's Report to the President on Atrocities and War Crimes, June 6, 1945:

• Part V
• Response and Testimony: At the Center of the Whirlwind

• Introduction

• 19
• Inside the Ghetto

• 20
• Notebook

• 21
• The Second Winter: October 29, 1942--March 18, 1943:

• 22
• Letters from Westerbork:

• Part VI
• Genocide and the Holocaust

• Introduction

• 23
• United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948

• 24
• Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept:

• 25
• Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide?

• 26
• Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the "Racial Century:" Genocides of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust: