CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Walter H. Pehle and René Schlott

I. RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

  1. The Anatomy of the Holocaust

  2. German Motivations for the Destruction of the Jews

  3. The Bureaucracy of Annihilation

  4. The Significance of the Holocaust

  5. Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography

II. CONTROVERSIES AND DEBATES

  6. Bitburg as Symbol

  7. The Ghetto as a Form of Government

  8. The Judenrat: Conscious or Unconscious “Tool”

  9. I Was Not There

III. MEMORIES AND MEMOIRS

10. The Holocaust Mission: 29 July to 12 August 1979

11. In Search of the Special Trains

12. Working on the Holocaust

13. The Development of Holocaust Research: A Personal Overview

Indexes