Fateful months: essays on the emergence of the Final Solution

This study is a search for the origins of the Jewish genocide. Browning maintains that the development of the extermination program does not have "a simple answer, for the emergence of the Final Solution was a mosaic of many pieces. It did not result from a single decision by Hitler to implement his long held plans." Aside from material on overall policy and program development, the book also contains a detailed study of the early Holocaust in Serbia, including the Wehrmacht reprisal policy, the murder of male Jews and the story of the gas vans. The Yugoslavian experience may be seen as a laboratory prelude to the wider extermination process in Eastern Europe.