The war against the Jews, 1933-1945

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In the first part, "The Final Solution," the author "records the origins and growth of the virulent ideology that underlay the plan to annihilate the European Jews," and in the second part, "The Holocaust," she describes "the Jewish plight under German terror."--Jacket.;pt. 1. The final solution. The Jews in Hitler's mental world -- Anti-semitism in modern Germany -- Phase one: anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1935 -- The ss: instrument of the final solution -- Foreign policy, race, and war -- Phase two: from internal war to world war -- The annihilation camps: kingdom of death -- A retrospective view -- pt. 2. The holocaust. Between freedom and ghetto: the Jews in Germany, 1933-1938 -- Death and life in the east European ghettos -- The official community: from Kehilla to Judenrat -- The alternative community -- The countercommunity: the political underground -- Who shall live, who shall die -- "For your freedom and ours" -- Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity. pt. 1. The final solution. The Jews in Hitler's mental world -- Anti-semitism in modern Germany -- Phase one: anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1935 -- The ss: instrument of the final solution -- Foreign policy, race, and war -- Phase two: from internal war to world war -- The annihilation camps: kingdom of death -- A retrospective view -- pt. 2. The holocaust. Between freedom and ghetto: the Jews in Germany, 1933-1938 -- Death and life in the east European ghettos -- The official community: from Kehilla to Judenrat -- The alternative community -- The countercommunity: the political underground -- Who shall live, who shall die -- "For your freedom and ours" -- Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity.