origins of the Final Solution: the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942

Argues that while the Nazis' efforts to find a Final Solution to their self-created Jewish Question was inherent in their ideology, we cannot understand Hitler's policy as a linear process from Mein Kampf to Auschwitz. Examines how Hitler's racial and political vision moved from a desire to create a "Jew-free" Germany toward mass slaughter throughout Nazi-dominated Europe