EUROPEAN HISTORY / HOLOCAUST STUDIES

The Final Solution and the German Office

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The Jewish policy of the Third Reich did not stem solely from Hitler’s pronounced anti-Semitism. It also grew out of subdivisions and feuds within the Nazi regime and the failure of earlier attempts to find “solutions to the Jewish problem.” In his study Christopher Browning exploits heretofore little-used material from the German Foreign Office archives and transcripts of war criminal trials to reveal the complex of forces and motives determining the Jewish policy.

“The first detailed study in English of Referat D III in Abteilung Deutschland… A study that any good library should have for every student of the Holocaust the German Foreign Office, or the operations of modern bureaucracies.”