The first section of this book is an overview of sixty years of research in which the writers reflect on historiography and historical thought. The second section focuses on social antisemitism until the 1950s and the German public's awareness of the Holocaust. The third major theme is Jewish society, from its initial attempts to develop new forms of societal life under the Nazi regime until the deportation from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka. Concludes with the unresolved tension between reflective personal memory and impersonal historical research.