Christopher R. Browning,JÃ¼rgen MatthÃ¤us
Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In 1939, the Nazi regimeâ€™s plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and total mass murder of all Jews within the Nazi grasp. ,The Origins of the Final Solution, is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever written of what took place during this crucial periodâ€”of how, precisely, the Nazisâ€™ racial policies evolved from persecution and â€œethnic cleansingâ€ to the Final Solution of the Holocaust.,Focusing on the months between the German conquest of Poland in September 1939â€“which brought nearly two million additional Jews under Nazi controlâ€”and the beginning of the deportation of Jews to the death camps in the spring of 1942, Christopher R. Browning describes how Poland became a laboratory for experiments in racial policies, from expulsion and decimation to ghettoization and exploitation under local occupation authorities. He reveals how the subsequent attack on the Soviet Union opened the door for an immense radicalization of Nazi Jewish policyâ€”and marked the beginning of the Final Solution. Meticulously documenting the process that led to this fatal development, Browning shows that Adolf Hitler was the key decision-maker throughout, approving major escalations in Nazi persecution of the Jews at victory-induced moments of euphoria. Thoroughly researched and lucidly written, this groundbreaking work provides an essential chapter in the history of the Holocaust.
History,World War II,Holocaust,Nonfiction,War,World War II,War,Cultural,Germany,History,European History,Politics,German History,Nazi Party,Race
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942