Preconditions : antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early 20th century Europe |
Leadership and will : Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi ideology |
From revolution to routine : Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 |
Open aggression : in search of war, 1938-1939 |
Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940 : war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program |
Expansion and systemization : exporting war and terror, 1940-1941 |
The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943 |
Death throes : killing frenzies, 1944-1945 |