The Unwritten Order Hitler's Role in the

The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of government. To reconstruct Hitler's central role in the Final Solution represents a particular challenge. Hitler treated the murder of the Jews as a matter of the utmost secrecy and was careful wherever possible not to leave behind any written orders. Wherever his instructions on this matter are recorded he has used codified language. He kept away from the implementation of the orders and feigned ignorance, even to his closest friends and colleagues. Under these conditions, the surviving source material can only be described as fragmentary. The aim of the book is to offer documentary proof of Hitler's central role in the murder of the European Jews. In order to achieve this aim, various documents and fragments of documents have been pieced together and the codified language of the dictator deciphered. Book jacket.

Peter Longerich is Professor of Modern German History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Director of the Research Centre for the Holocaust and Twentieth Century History

Map	p. 7
Preface	p. 8
Remove, Annihilate, Extirpate	p. 21
Complete removal of the Jews	p. 27
Eradication from the cultural and intellectual life of the Nation	p. 41
Attempting a legal solution to a problem	p. 49
The Jews must be expelled from Germany, from the whole of Europe	p. 59
All measures against the Jews are to be discussed directly with the Fuhrer	p. 73
Granting a merciful death	p. 77
An attempt at the settlement and regulation of the Jewish Problem	p. 85
Some time in the future we want to ship the Jews out to Madagascar	p. 91
According to the will of the Fuhrer	p. 95
The Jewish-Bolshevik Intelligentsia... must be eliminated	p. 105
...Shoot everyone who even looks odd	p. 115
It is good if the terror that we are exterminating the Jews goes before us	p. 127
We are experiencing the fulfilment of this prophecy	p. 137
The World War is here, the extermination of the Jews must be the necessary consequence	p. 153
After appropriate prior approval by the Fuhrer	p. 159
In this matter the Fuhrer is the untiring pioneer and spokesman for a radical solution	p. 167
The Fuhrer has laid the implementation of this very difficult order on my shoulders	p. 175
In accordance with the wishes of the Fuhrer	p. 187
To be treated like tuberculosis bacilli	p. 195
By removing the Jews	p. 205
List of Abbreviations	p. 214
Notes	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 253
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