Hitler et les juifs : genèse d'un génocide

Analyzes the series of decisions and events leading to the Final Solution. Describes briefly the "intentionalist-functionalist" debate and Burrin's own view, a synthesis of both arguments. Discusses the consistency of Hitler's antisemitism throughout his career, but argues that the Final Solution was not inevitable and that the solution to the "Jewish problem" depended on the outcome of a future war. Traces the Nazi policy of Jewish emigration and the search for a territorial solution (e.g. the deportation to Nisko and the Madagascar project). Points out that the crucial turning-point came in September 1941 when the mass murder of Soviet Jews became the prologue for the Final Solution of all European Jewry. Contends, also, that the prolonged war with the USSR and the entry of the USA into the war caused Hitler to seek revenge through extermination of the Jews. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-198) and index. 200 pages ; 21 cm.