The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution (Canto)

The Path to Genocide studies three aspects of the events leading up to the Final Solution in Nazi Germany. First, Nazi's "solutions" to their self-imposed "Jewish problem" before resorting to mass-murder are examined, specifically ghettoization and early resettlement plans to expel Jews to Eastern Poland or the island of Madagascar. Second, the responsibility of shaping Nazi Jewish policy is shown to extend to the lower and middle echelon of government, through accommodation and conformity of a wide variety of perpetrators, including bureaucrats, doctors and policemen. Finally the role of Adolf Hitler in the decisionmaking process is examined, with a historiographical analysis of other accounts of his role. Browning argues that while Hitler did not operate according to a premeditated plan or blueprint, he did make the key decisions. This volume of essays provides perspectives on German Jewish policy both from the bottom of the government apparatus and from the top.

• The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (Comprehensive History of the Holocaust)
• Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
• The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
• Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
• Survival In Auschwitz
• Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
• Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
• Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
• Reading the Holocaust
• Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Post-War Testimony (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History)