From the Book - First edition.
Why another book on the Holocaust?
Targets : Why the Jews? Antimsemitism ; Emancipation and backlash
Attackers : Why the Germans? Nation and Volk ; Hitler's opportunity
Escalation : Why murder? From Aryanization to atrocity ; Gentile and Jewish responses
Annihilation : Why this swift and sweeping? From bullets to gas ; Perpetrators : the "generation without limits" ; Enslavement
Victims : Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Compliance and resistance ; The world of the camps
Homelands : Why did survival rates diverge? Varieties of behavior ; The case of Poland
Onlookers : Why such limited help from outside? Prewar evasions ; Wartime priorities
Aftermath : What legacies, what lessons? Return, resettlement, retribution, and restitution ; Memory, myths, and meanings.