Introduction

Author's Preface

1. The Growth of an Obsession
2. The Art of Dissembling
3. Hitler's Influence on the Conduct of War
4. Four Key Commissions
5. Himmler on Responsibility
6. Hitler's Cunning
7. The Execution of the Final Solution in the Occupied East
8. The Mass Shootings Outside Riga,30 November and 8 December 1941
9. The Wannsee Conference
10. The Interrogation of Friedrich Jeckeln
11. Hitler's Visitor on 28 November 1941
12. "On Orders from the Highest Level"
13. The Camp of the German Jews in Minsk
14. Reichskommissar of the Ukraine, Erich Koch
15. "It Is the Fuhrer's Wish"
16. "The Fuhrer Has Taken Note: Destroy"
17. An Official Report from Auschwitz-Birkenau
18. "Toward a Swift Solution"
19. "KaltenbrunnerContra Himmler"
20. "Duty at Auschwitz Is Frontline Duty"
21. "They Shall Go Under with Us!"
22. The Beginning of the End
23. The End of an Obsession

Epilogue

Augmenting the Historical Record

File 17/9, Topf and Sohne, Erfurt, Russian
Central State Archive, Moscow

Appendix: jewish Casualties
Due to the Final Solution

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index