Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

This book is the culmination of  more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi  Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume  brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian  Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are  arranged in three sections - Hitler and the Final Solution, popular  opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in  historiography - and Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing  section on the uniqueness of Nazism. Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third  Reich, and he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on  the societal causes and consequences of Nazi policy. His work has  brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the  German populace shaped and did not shape Nazi policy. This volume  presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive  dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of  ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total  genocide.