Product Description: Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Scholars, despite their aim to challenge memory and fill its gaps, often use testimonies uncritically or selectively-mining them to support generalizations...read more

The most detailed, careful, and comprehensive analysis to date of the descent of the nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Argues that genocide was not a preconceived plan but rather a discovered possibility.