Doris L. Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. She has been researching and teaching the Holocaust for over twenty-five years and is a member of the academic committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Photo Credits List of Maps Introduction Holocaust, War, and Genocide Themes and Problems 1 Dry Timber Preconditions 2 Leadership and Will Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi Ideology 3 From Revolution to Routine Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 4 Open Aggression In Search of War, 1938-1939 5 Brutal Innovations War against Poland and Ghettoization of Jews, 1939-1940 6 Escalation and Expansion The Program to Kill People with Disabilities and the War in the West, 1939-1940 7 The War of Annihilation, 1941-1943 8 Flashover: The Peak Years of Killing Jews, 1942-1943 9 Death Throes and Killing Frenzies, 1944-1945 Conclusion: Legacies of Atrocity Index About the Author