959 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm

Sets the scene with a brief history of anti-Semitism prior to Hitler, and documents the horrors of the Holocaust from 1933 onward, in an incisive, interpretive account of the genocide of World War II

Includes bibliographical references (pages 831-896) and index

First steps to iniquity -- 1933 : the shadow of the swastika -- Towards disinheritance -- After the Nuremberg laws -- "Hunted like rats" -- "The seeds of a terrible vengeance" -- September 1939 : the trapping of Polish Jewry -- "Blood of innocents" -- 1940 : "a wave of evil" -- War in the West : terror in the East -- January-June 1941 : the spreading net -- "It cannot happen!" -- "A crime without a name" -- "Write and record!" -- The "final solution" -- Eye-witness to mass murder -- 20 January 1942 : the Wannsee Conference -- "Journey into the unknown" -- "Another journey into the unknown" -- "If they have enough time, we are lost" -- "Avenge our tormented people" -- From Warsaw to Treblinka : "these disastrous and horrible delays" -- Autumn 1942 : "at a faster pace" -- "The most horrible of all horrors" -- September-November 1942 : the spread of resistance -- "To save at least someone" -- "Help me get more trains" -- Warsaw, April 1943 : hopeless days of revolt -- "The crashing fires of hell" -- "To perish, but with honour" -- "A page of glory ... never to be written" -- "Do not think our spirit is broken" -- "One should like to live a little bit longer" -- From the occupation of Hungary to the Normandy landings -- "May one cry now?" -- July-September 1944 : the last deportations -- September 1944 : the days of awe -- Revolt at Birkenau -- Protectors and persecutors -- The "tainted luck" of survival -- Epilogue: "I will tell the world."

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