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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Jewish History: Ancient Beginnings and the Evolution of Christian Anti-Judaic Prejudice Through the Reformation | |
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| Jewish Beginnings | |
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| The Jews, Hellenism, and the Maccabean (Hasmonean) Rebellion | |
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| Roots of Anti-Jewish Sentiment: The Jewish-Greek Conflict | |
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| Judaism, Jews, and the Coming of Christianity | |
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| The Jewish War and the Great Revolt (66-70 C.E.) | |
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| Judaism, Christianity, and the Bar Kochba Rebellion | |
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| Constantine, Christianity, and the Jews | |
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| Jews in the Last Century of the Western Roman Empire | |
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| Jews in Early Medieval Europe and the Byzantine Empire | |
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| The Crusades and the Jews of the Mediterranean World | |
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| Pope Innocent III and the Jews | |
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| Medieval Usury: Christians and Jews | |
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| The Myth of Ritual Murder | |
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| The Deadly Centuries: The Jews at the End of the Middle Ages | |
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| The Expulsion of the Jews from Western Europe | |
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| The Black Death | |
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| The Final Humiliation: Expulsion from Spain and Portugal | |
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| The Protestant Reformation | |
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| The Roman Catholic Church, the Jews, and the Counter Reformation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| Jews, the Enlightenment, Emancipation, and the Rise of Racial Anti-Semitism Through the Early Twentieth Century | |
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| The Jews in Post-Reformation Europe | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The French Revolutions of 1789-1799, Napoleon I, and the Jews | |
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| The Jews in Post-Napoleonic Europe | |
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| The Intellectual and Nationalistic Origins of Anti-Semitism in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Political Anti-Semitism in Germany, Austria, France, and Russia Prior to World War I | |
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| The Protocols of the Elders of Zion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| The World of Adolf Hitler, 1889-1933: War, Politics, and Anti-Semitism | |
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| Adolf Hitler: Family Roots and Questions of Jewish Ancestry | |
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| Hitler's Early Life | |
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| Hitler's Vienna Years | |
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| Hitler, Munich, and German Anti-Semitism | |
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| Hitler and World War I | |
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| Hitler, Versailles, and the Early Weimar Republic | |
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| Hitler, the Early Nazi Party, and Anti-Semitism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| The Nazis in Power, 1933-1939: Eugenics, Race, and Biology; Jews, the Handicapped, and the Roma | |
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| Germany's Interwar Jewish Community | |
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| The Nazification of Germany and the "Jewish Question": 1933-1935 | |
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| The Nuremberg Laws | |
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| The Nazi Aryan Olympics (1936) | |
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| Aryanization and the Road to Kristallnacht | |
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| The Early Campaign of Forced Sterilization | |
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| Euthanasia: Theory and Nazi Practice | |
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| The Roma (Gypsies) | |
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| Homosexuals, or Gays | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| Nazi Germany at War, 1939-1941: "Euthanasia" and the Handicapped; Ghettos and Jews | |
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| Children's "Euthanasia" Program | |
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| Adult "Euthanasia" Program | |
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| The Road to War and the German Invasion of Poland | |
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| Racial War in Poland: Polish Christians | |
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| The Creation of the General Government: Nazi Germany's "Racial Laboratory" | |
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| The Jews in Interwar Poland | |
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| The War Against the Jews in Poland | |
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| The Physical and Economic Exploitation of the Jews in the General Government | |
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| The Nisko Plan, the Lublin Reservation, and Madagascar | |
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| The Madagascar Plan | |
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| The Creation of the Ghettos in German-Occupied Poland | |
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| Lodz (Litzmannstadt): Jews and Roma | |
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| Warsaw | |
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| Krakow (Cracow) | |
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| Rule, Life, and Work in the Krakow Ghetto | |
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| Forced Labor and Food | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| The Invasion of the Soviet Union and the Path to the "Final Solution" | |
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| Jews in Soviet-Conquered Territory | |
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| Zwartendijk and Sugihara: Righteous Gentiles in Vilnius | |
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| Operation Barbarossa and Plans for Mass Murder | |
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| The Einsatzgruppen | |
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| The Wehrmacht | |
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| The German Invasion of the Soviet Union | |
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| Early German Killing Operations in the Soviet Union | |
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| Collaboration in Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine | |
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| Hungarian and Romanian Collaboration | |
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| The Roma and the Handicapped | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| The "Final Solution," 1941-1944: Death Camps and Experiments with Mass Murder | |
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| Planning for the Final Solution | |
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| The Transfers from the Greater Reich | |
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| Theresienstadt | |
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| Experiments with the Machinery of Death | |
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| The Wannsee Conference | |
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| The Final Solution | |
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| Chelmno | |
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| The Aktion Reinhard Death Camps: Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka | |
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| Auschwitz | |
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| The Factory of Death: Auschwitz II-Birkenau | |
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| The Gypsy Family Camp | |
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| Medical Experiments in Auschwitz I and II | |
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| Auschwitz III-Buna/Monowitz | |
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| Resistance in Auschwitz | |
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| Majdanek | |
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| Liquidation of the Major Ghettos | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| The Final Solution in Western Europe and the Nazi-Allied States | |
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| The Holocaust in Western Europe | |
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| Belgium and Luxembourg | |
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| Denmark | |
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| France | |
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| Greece | |
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| The Netherlands | |
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| Norway | |
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| The Nazi-Allied States | |
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| Bulgaria | |
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| Finland | |
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| Hungary | |
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| Italy | |
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| Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia and Slovakia | |
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| The Roma in the Protectorate | |
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| Slovakia | |
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| The Roma | |
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| Romania | |
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| The Roma | |
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| Yugoslavia (Croatia and Serbia) | |
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| The NDH (Croatia) | |
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| Serbia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| The Holocaust and the Role of Europe's Neutrals: Then and Now | |
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| Europe's Neutrals | |
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| Portugal | |
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| Spain | |
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| Sweden | |
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| Switzerland | |
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| Turkey | |
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| The Vatican | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| Liberation, DPs, and the Search for Justice: War Crimes Investigations and Trials in Europe, the United States, and Israel | |
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| Liberation of the Camps | |
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| Displaced Persons: Jews and Roma | |
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| The Trials of the Major War Criminals | |
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| The Federal Republic of Germany | |
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| War Crimes Investigations and Trials in Western Europe | |
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| War Crimes Trials in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sources for Further Study and Research | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Estimates of Jewish Deaths During the Holocaust | |
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| Estimates of Roma Deaths During the Holocaust | |
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| Yad Vashem: Righteous Among the Nations | |
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| SS Ranks | |
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| German Army Ranks | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |