Nazi Europe and the final solution / edited by David Bankier and Israel Gutman.

Collection of selected articles based on the papers delivered at an international conference in Aug. 1999 in Warsaw, Poland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Signaling the final solution to the German people / David Bankier -- Exclusion as a stage in persecution : the Jewish situation in Germany, 1933-1941 / Wolfgang Benz -- The boycott campaign as an arena of collective violence against Jews in Germany, 1933-1938 / Michael Wildt -- Customers, patients, neighbors, and friends : relations between Jews and non-Jews in Germany, 1933-1938 / Trude Maurer -- The rescue of Jews, 1941-1945 : resistance by quite ordinary Germans / Beate Kosmala -- Polish historiography on the Holocaust / Jerzy Tomaszewski -- Possibilities of rescuing Polish Jewry under German occupation and the influence of the Polish government-in-exile / David Engel -- Polish-Jewish relations in the light of Polish political attitudes during the war period / Israel Gutman -- Attitudes toward the Jews in the Polish underground press, 1939-1944 / Andrej Friszke -- Witnessing the Holocaust : Polish diaries, memoirs, and reminiscences / Feliks Tych -- A hesitant partnership : the Bund and Polish socialists during the Holocaust / Daniel Blatman -- The Polish underground and the Jews in the years of the Second World War / Shmuel Krakowski -- The local population in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and its attitude toward the murder of the Jews / Yitzhak Arad -- In the shadow of the Holocaust : Lithuanian-Jewish relations in the crucial years, 1940-1944 / Vygantas Vareikis -- The attitude of the Ukrainian Nationalist groups towards Jews during the Second World War / Aharon Weiss -- The Soviet person as a bystander of the Holocaust : the case of Eastern Belorussia / Daniel Romanovsky -- Czech society and the "final solution" / Miroslav Kárný -- Changes in the attitude of the Slovak population to the so-called "solution to the Jewish question" during the period 1938-1945 / Ivan Kamenec -- The opposition to the Antonescu regime : its attitude towards the Jews during the Holocaust / Jean Ancel -- Jews and non-Jews in France during the Second World War / John F. Sweets -- French public opinion and the "Jewish question," 1930-1942 : the role of middle-class professional associations / Vicki Caron -- The French resistance : an alternative society for the Jews? / Renée Poznanski -- Routines and traditions : the reactions of non-Jews and Jews in the Netherlands to war and persecution / Ido de Haan -- Problematic national identity, outsiders, and persecution : impact of the Gentile population's attitude in Belgium on the fate of the Jews in 1940-1944 / Dan Michman -- Belgium and the Jews under Nazi rule : beyond the myths / Jean-Philippe Schreiber -- The Italians and the Jews during the Fascist and German persecutions / Liliana Picciotto -- The rescue of Jews in Italy and the existence of a Papal directive / Susan Zuccotti -- The rescue of the Danish Jews in October 1943 / Hans Kirchhoff.