Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Volksgemeinschaft, 'Aryanization' and the Holocaust -- Euthanasia and the Final Solution -- The idea of the Final Solution and the role of experts -- Himmler, the architect of genocide -- The relation between Operation Barbarossa as an ideological war of extermination and the Final Solution -- Wehrmacht, Einsatzgruppen, Soviet POWs and anti-Bolshevism in the emergence of the Final Solution -- Operation Barbarossa and the origins of the Final Solution -- Hitler and the euphoria of victory: the path to the Final Solution -- The response of Polish Jewry to the Final Solution -- The Holocaust in Lithuania: some unique aspects -- Types of Genocide? Croatians, Serbs and Jews, 1941 5 -- How far did Vichy France 'sabotage' the imperatives of Wannsee? -- German public awareness of the Final Solution -- Rescue through statehood: the American Zionist response to the Holocaust -- Different worlds: British perceptions of the Final Solution during the Second World War -- Enmity, indifference or cooperation: the Allies and Yishuv's rescue activists -- Documents on the Holocaust in archives of the former Soviet Union -- Conclusion: the significance of the Final Solution -- Index.