The Final Solution

Introduction Part 1 Antecedents, preconditions and legitimation 1 Volksgemeinschaft, 'Aryanization' and the Holocaust 2 Euthanasia and the Final Solution 3 The idea of the Final Solution and the role of experts Part 2 Operation Barbarossa, the Wehrmacht and the question of timing 4 Himmler, the architect of genocide 5 The relation between Operation Barbarossa as an ideological war of extermination and the Final Solution 6 Wehrmacht, Einsatzgruppen, Soviet POWs and anti-Bolshevism in the emergence of the Final Solution 7 Operation Barbarossa and the origins of the Final Solution 8 Hitler and the euphoria of victory: the path to the Final Solution Part 3 The implementation of the Final Solution and responses 9 The response of Polish Jewry to the Final Solution 10 The Holocaust in Lithuania: some unique aspects 11 Types of Genocide? Croatians, Serbs and Jews, 1941-5 12 How far did Vichy France 'sabotage' the imperatives of Wannsee? 13 German public awareness of the Final Solution 14 Rescue through statehood: the American Zionist response to the Holocaust 15 Different worlds: British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second World War 16 Enmity, indifference or cooperation: the Allies and Yishuv's rescue activists Part 4 Historiography 17 Documents on the Holocaust in archives of the former Soviet Union Conclusion: the significance of the Final Solution