The war againts the Jews, 1933-1945 / by Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

Maps on lining papers.

Notes: p.404-436 ; Index: p. 451-460.

Cont.: 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