4. Hitler’s Role in the ‘Final Solution’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Hitler and the Final Solution
5. 1. ‘Working towards the Führer’: Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship 29
6. 2. Ideologue and Propagandist: Hitler in Light of His Speeches, Writings and Orders, 1925–1928 49
7. 3. Improvised Genocide? The Emergence of the ‘Final Solution’ in the ‘Warthegau’ 60
8. 4. Hitler’s Role in the ‘Final Solution’ 89
9. Part II. Popular Opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany
10. 5. The ‘Everyday’ and the ‘Exceptional’: The Shaping of Popular Opinion, 1933–1939 119
11. 6. German Popular Opinion during the ‘Final Solution’: Information, Comprehension, Reactions 139
12. 7. Reactions to the Persecution of the Jews 151
13. 8. Popular Opinion and the Extermination of the Jews 197
14. 9. German Popular Opinion and the ‘Jewish Question’, 1939–1943: Some Further Reflections 210
15. Part III. The Final Solution in Historiography
16. 10. Hitler and the Holocaust 237
17. 11. ‘Normality’ and Genocide: The Problem of ‘Historicization’ 282
18. 12. Shifting Perspectives: Historiographical Trends in the Aftermath of Unification 303
19. Part IV. The Uniqueness of Nazism
20. 13. Hitler and the Uniqueness of Nazism 343
21. 14. War and Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe 361
22. Acknowledgments 381
23. Index 385