Records the origins and growth of the virulent ideology that underlay the plan to annihilate the European Jews and shows how, once the National Socialists came to power, Hitler and the SS involved the whole apparatus of the complex German state and party bureaucracies in carrying out this diabolical endeavor. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Jews, Nazis, World War Two, World War II, Adolf Hitler, Holocaust, SS, Nuremberg Laws, Mein Kampf,Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Warsaw, Heinrich HimmlerHermann Goring, Jewish Labor Bund, Bialystok Ghetto).