Cengage Learning

Concentration and Extermination Camps . . xxiii
Tables: Estimated Jewish and Gypsy Deaths in the Holocaust . . xxiv

Introduction . . 1

I Origins of the Holocaust  . . 9
Anti-Semitism Through the Ages . . 12
Hitler's Decisive Role . . 23
The Opening Act of Nazi Genocide . . 38

II The Motivations of the Killers . . 57
The Nazi Doctors . . 60
Hitler's Army . . 76
"Ordinary Men" . . 84

III The Victims' Experiences . . 101
Helpless Victims . . 104
The Will to Survive . . 109
The Gray Zone . . 115
Women and the Holocaust . . 128

IV The Problem of Jewish Resistance . . 141
Two Thousand Years of Jewish Appeasement . . 144
Forms of Jewish Resistance . . 150
Why the Jewish Councils Cooperated . . 165

V Bystander Reactions . . 177
The Poles Helped Persecute the Jews . . 180
The Poles Were Fellow Victims . . 192
Western Europeans and the Jews  . 206
Righteous Gentiles . . 217

VI Possibilities of Rescue . . 225
The Myth of Rescue . . 228
The Silence of Pope Pius XII . . 240
The Failure to Comprehend . . 252

Suggestions for Additional Reading . . 267