The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945

xii, 622 pp. "A comprehensive and well researched study on the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. the author has used many Nazi secret files as sources to prepare this well documented work." CONTENTS: Part I - The Search for the Final Solution: Forced Emigration and Pogroms Before September, 1939; Deportations, 1939-1941; The Ghettoes, 1940-1942; The Madagascar Project: The Deportations to Lodz and Russia, June, 1940 - January, 1942; The Gross-Wannsee Conference and the Auschwitz Plan; The Gas Chambers; The Fate of the Reich Jews and the Fight for Exemption. Part II - The Final Solution in Practice: The Soviet Union I. The Einsatzgruppen; The Soviet Union II. The Massacres; Action Reinhardt, the Extermination of the Jews of Poland, 1942; The Liquidation of the Polish and Russian Ghettoes, 1943-1944; France; Other Western European Countries; Jugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria; Slovakia and Rumania; Hungary; Jewry in the Break-Up of the Third Reich. Epilogue; Appendix I. Statistical Summary of the Final Solution; Appendix II. The Fate of Some of the Participants in 'The Final Solution' (October, 1952); Chronology of the Final Solution; Bibliography; Text References; Index. Maps: 1. Pre-war Poland as partitioned between 1941 and 1944; 2. Soviet Union, showing maximum Territory occupied by the Germans, 1941-1942; 3. Greater Hungary, showing the acquired Territories with their Jewish Populations; 4. Germany, showing the Position of the Main Concentration Camps at the end of the War.