Accounting for genocide

A comprehensive study of the individual national responses to the Nazi genocide. The materials are presented in two parts. The first section studies the social and political forces which contributed to or helped limit the destruction of native Jews. The second part addresses the response of the Jewish victims to the German threat. Materials in this section are primarily eyewitness reports from Jews in Poland, Hungary and the Netherlands. An introductory chapter explores the unique elements in Europe which made possible systematic genocide.