Table Of ContentIntroduction Author's Preface 1. The Growth of an Obsession 2. The Art of Dissembling 3. Hitler's Influence on the Conduct of War 4. Four Key Commissions 5. Himmler on Responsibility 6. Hitler's Cunning 7. The Execution of the Final Solution in the Occupied East 8. The Mass Shootings Outside Riga,30 November and 8 December 1941 9. The Wannsee Conference 10. The Interrogation of Friedrich Jeckeln 11. Hitler's Visitor on 28 November 1941 12. "On Orders from the Highest Level" 13. The Camp of the German Jews in Minsk 14. Reichskommissar of the Ukraine, Erich Koch 15. "It Is the Fuhrer's Wish" 16. "The Fuhrer Has Taken Note: Destroy" 17. An Official Report from Auschwitz-Birkenau 18. "Toward a Swift Solution" 19. "KaltenbrunnerContra Himmler" 20. "Duty at Auschwitz Is Frontline Duty" 21. "They Shall Go Under with Us!" 22. The Beginning of the End 23. The End of an Obsession Epilogue Augmenting the Historical Record File 17/9, Topf and Sohne, Erfurt, Russian Central State Archive, Moscow Appendix: jewish Casualties Due to the Final Solution Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
SynopsisFleming is the only scholar given access to the interrogations of the German civilian crematoria engineers lying inaccessible, until a few months ago, in Moscow. This historically important information finally places the last stone in the mosaic of Auschwitz-Berkenau.