Sources of the Holocaust

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- The Context of Christian Antisemitis.- The Creation of Monsters in Germany: Jews and Others.- The Nazi Attack on Jews and Other Undesirables in the Third Reich, 1933-1938.- The Physical Assault on Jews in Germany, 1938-1939.- The Perfection of Genocide as National Policy, 1939-1945.- 'Arbeit Macht Frei': Work and Death in Concentration Camps and Ghettos.- Assembly Lines of Death: Extermination Camps.- The Aftermath.- The Holocaust in Contemporary Life.- Conclusion.- List of Sources.- Bibliography.- Index.

STEVE HOCHSTADT is Professor of History at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA. He teaches modern European history and the Holocaust. His book Mobility and Modernity: Migration in Germany 1820-1989 won the Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Award in 2000.

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