The origins of the Final Solution: the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942

Poland, laboratory of racial policy

Abdication of the army

Racial policy and terror

The search for a final solution through expulsion, 1939-1941

Eichmann and the Nisko plan

The Baltic Germans, the first short-range plan, and the Warthegau deportations

The curbing of Nazi deportation plans, January-February 1940

The intermediate plan, the Stettin deportations, and the Volhynian action, February-July 1940

The army, from abdication to complicity

The Madagascar plan

The last spasms of expulsion policy, fall 1940-spring 1941

The Polish ghettos

Ghettoization

Exploitation

Production or starvation, the ghetto managers' dilemma

Germany and Europe

Racial persecution inside Germany, 1939-1941

The Nazi sphere of influence

Preparing for the "war of destruction"

Military preparations for the "war of destruction"

Preparations of the SS

Economic and demographic preparations for "Operation Barbarossa" (by Christopher R. Browning and Jurgen Matthaus)

Operation Barbarossa and the onset of the Holocaust, June-December 1941 (by Jurgen Matthaus):

German perceptions and expectations regarding "the east"

Early anti-Jewish measures and the mid-July turning point

Pogroms and collaboration

Toward the final solution, August-December 1941

The final solution in the east

From war of destruction to the final solution

Euphoria of victory and decision making, July-October 1941

Consternation and anticipation

Inventing the extermination camp

The final solution from conception to implementation, October 1941-March 1942

Deportations from Germany, the first and second waves

Integrating the bureaucracy into the final solution

The gassing begins

Hitler and the decision-making process in Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942

Germans and the final solution.