The Holocaust: A German Historian Examines the Genocide

Wolfgang Benz

Paper, 176 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11215-4
$26.00 / £15.50

March, 1999
Cloth, 176 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11214-7
$83.50

1. Talks Followed by Breakfast: The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942

2. German Jews and National Socialism: Self-Image and Threat

3. Exclusion and Discrimination of the Jews in Germany, 1933–1939

4. Jewish Emigration, 1933–1941

5. Aryanization and the Jewish Star: German Jews Are Totally Stripped of Their Civil Rights, 1939–1941

6. Ghettos in Occupied Eastern Europe: The Beginning of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question

7. From Antisemitism to Genocide: The Genesis of the Final Solution

8. Massacre in the East: Einsatzgruppen and Other Killing, 1941–1942Units in the Occupied Territories

9. The Deportation of the Jews from Germany

10. Theresienstadt

11. The Other Genocide: The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma

12. Industrialized Mass Murder in the Extermination Camps, by 1942–1944

Related Subjects

• European History

About the Author

Wolfgang Benz is professor of antisemitism research at the Technical University of Berlin. He has written numerous studies on the history of the Jews during the Third Reich, including The Jews of Germany, 1933-1945 and Dimension des Völkermords (Dimension of Genocide). Arthur Hertzberg is professor of Jewish Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History (Columbia) and The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader.

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