Hitler and the Jews  The Genesis of the Holocaust Burrin,
Philippe Date published:  February 1994  The extermination of
the European Jews by the Nazis has been researched so
intensively by historians that much about the organization of
the crime, the methods employed, the number of victims is now
common knowledge. But what do we know of the processes that, one
day, led to sending the first train down the track to death? Do
we really know how the slaughter came about? Such an enquiry
exposes the fragility of knowledge that we take for granted,
raising again seemingly elementary questions. Did the policy of
the Nazi regime inevitably lead to the Final Solution? Was the
Final Solution a foregone conclusion, even for Hitler? Philippe
Burrin's book offers bold new insights into the web of decisions
and events that led eventually to a genocide unprecedented in
character, unparalleled in scale.