The "Final solution" : the implementation of mass murder / edited with an introduction by Michael R. Marrus.

Includes bibliographical references.

Intention and explanation : a current controversy about the interpretation of National Socialism / Tim Mason -- The selling of Adolf Hitler : David Irving's "Hitler's War" / Charles W. Sydnor Jr. -- Hitler orders the Holocaust / Eberhard Jäckel -- Genocide : was it the Nazis original plan? / Yehuda Bauer -- War in the East and the extermination of the Jews / Andreas Hillgruber -- Hitler and the genesis of the "Final Solution" : an assessment of David Irving's theses / Martin Broszat -- A reply to Martin Broszat regarding the origins of the Final Solution / Christopher R. Browning -- The decision concerning the Final Solution / Christopher R. Browning -- The realization of the unthinkable : the "Final Solution of Jewish Question" in the Third Reich / Hans Mommsen -- Planning for the Final Solution against the background of development in Holland in 1941 / Joseph Michman -- From anti-semitism to extermination : a historiographical study of Nazi policies toward the Jews and an essay in interpretation / Saul Friedländer -- Implementation of the Holocaust : the behavior of Nazi officials / Fred E. Katz -- Persecution of the Jews, bureaucracy and authority in the totalitarian state / Uwe Dietrich Adam -- The "aristocracy of National Socialism": the role of the SS in National Socialist Germany / Bernd Wegner -- Alfred Rosenberg and the "Final Solution" in the occupied Soviet territories / Yitzhak Arad -- The tasks of the SS Einsatzgruppen / Alfred Streim -- Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS : Himmler's personal murder brigades in 1941 / Yehoshua Büchler -- Rollbahn Mord : the early activities of Einsatzgruppe C / Yaacov Lozowick -- The Wehrmacht and the war of extermination against the Soviet Union / Jürgen Förster -- German railroads, Jewish souls / Raul Hilberg -- The government experts / Christopher R. Browning -- Racism and sexism in Nazi Germany: motherhood, compulsory sterilization, and the state / Gisela Bock -- Lebensborn and the eugenics policy of the Reichsführer-SS / Larry V. Thompson -- Reflections on genocide / Robert Jay Lifton -- Genetics after Auschwitz / Benno Müller-Hill -- Madagascar : phantom of a solution for the Jewish question / L. Yahil -- The Lublin reservation and the Madagascar plan : two aspects of Nazi Jewish policy during the Second World War / Philip Friedman -- Nisko : the first experiment in deportation / Jonny Moser -- Nazi resettlement policy and search for a solution to the Jewish question, 1939-1941 / Christopher R. Browning -- Nazi ghettoization policy in Poland, 1939-41 / Christopher R. Browning -- The forgotten part of the "Final Solution" : the liquidation of the ghettos / Wolfgang Scheffler.