Description: Introduction Part 1: Origins: Antisemitism and Scientific Racism 1. The Destruction of European Jews: Precedents 2. Psychiatry, German Society and the Nazi 'Euthanasia' Programme 3. Step by Step: The Expansion of Murder, 1939-1941 Part 2: Implementation: Beyond Intentionalism and Functionalism 4. The Extermination of the European Jews in Historiography: Fifty Years Later 5. The Planning Intelligentsia and the 'Final Solution' 6. The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate all European Jews 7. German Soldiers and the Holocaust: Historiography, Research and Implications 8. 'Once Again I've got to Play General to the Jews': From the War Diary of Blutordenstrager Felix Landau 9. Places far Away, Laces very Near: Mauthausen, the Camps of the Shoah, and the Bystanders 10. Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 Part 3: Aftermath: Testimony, Justice, and Denial 11. Redefining Heroic Behaviour: The Impromptu Self and the Holocaust Experience 12. The Gray Zone 13. Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes against Humanity

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