Final Solution

Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust, by historian David Cesarani. Employing an insightful Judeocentric perspective, the book casts a fresh look upon one of history's most terrifying periods.

This compelling narrative uncovers the threads of untold stories, using diaries and letters from within ghettos and camps. These precious documents, mostly in Polish and Yiddish, were previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars. By adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrative of the march to genocide and its aftermath, the book presents a subtly different timeline and engenders a significant re-evaluation of the how and why.

Final Solution provides a powerful re-assessment of the genocide of World War II, avoiding overstated theories about the guilty. It redefines who shares the guilt, shedding light on the subtleties that contributed to such horrifying events.

Autorentext

David Cesarani

Inhalt

Section - i: Maps Section - ii: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements Introduction - iv: Introduction Section - v: Prologue Chapter - One: The First Year 1933 Chapter - Two: Judenpolitik 1937-1938 Chapter - Three: Pogrom 1938-1941 Chapter - Four: War 1939-1941 Chapter - Five: Barbarossa 1941 Chapter - Six: Final Solution 1942 Chapter - Seven: Total War 1943 Chapter - Eight: The Last Phase 1944-1945 Section - vi: Epilogue Section - vii: Conclusion Section - viii: Glossary Section - ix: Bibliography Section - x: Notes Index - xi: Index