Why?: explaining the Holocaust

Why another book on the Holocaust?

Targets : Why the Jews? Antimsemitism ; Emancipation and backlash

Attackers : Why the Germans? Nation and Volk ; Hitler's opportunity

Escalation : Why murder? From Aryanization to atrocity ; Gentile and Jewish responses

Annihilation : Why this swift and sweeping? From bullets to gas ; Perpetrators : the "generation without limits" ; Enslavement

Victims : Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Compliance and resistance ; The world of the camps

Homelands : Why did survival rates diverge? Varieties of behavior ; The case of Poland

Onlookers : Why such limited help from outside? Prewar evasions ; Wartime priorities

Aftermath : What legacies, what lessons? Return, resettlement, retribution, and restitution ; Memory, myths, and meanings.