The Holocaust

From the publisher: "Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers focuses on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. How did Nazi Jewish policy evolve during the first years of the war? When did the Nazi regime cross the historic watershed from population expulsion and decimation ('ethnic cleansing') to total and systematic extermination? How did Nazi authorities attempt to reconcile policies of expulsion and extermination with the wartime urge to exploit Jewish labor? How were Jewish workers impacted? What role did local authorities play in shaping Nazi policy? What more can we learn about the mindset and behavior of the local perpetrators? Using new evidence, this book attempts to shed light on these important questions."

Contents: Perpetrators of the Holocaust: a historiography / Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann -- Male bonding and shame culture: Hitler's soldiers and the moral basis of genocidal warfare / Thomas Kühne -- The men of Einsatzgruppe D: an inside view of a state-sanctioned killing unit in the "Third Reich" / Andrej Angrick -- Women under National Socialism: women's scope for action and the issue of gender / Christina Herkommer -- Female concentration camp guards as perpetrators: three case studies / Irmtraud Heike -- The ordinariness of extraordinary evil: the making of perpetrators of genocide and mass killing / James E. Waller -- On killing and morality: how normal people become mass murders / Herald Welzer -- The organisation of genocide: perpetration in comparative perspective / Donald Bloxham -- International law after the Nuremberg trials and Rwanda: how do perpetrators justify themselves? / Gerd Hankle

From GoodReads.com: "The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe's Jews was a secret? Did ordinary non-Jewish Germans live in fear of the Nazi state? In this unprecedented firsthand analysis of daily life as experienced in the Third Reich, What We Knew offers answers to these most important questions. Combining the expertise of Eric A. Johnson, an American historian, and Karl-Heinz Reuband, a German sociologist, What We Knew is the most startling oral history yet of everyday life in the Third Reich."