A comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes and debates in Holocaust historiography over the last two decades.

Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. As well as some fifty scholarly articles, he is the author or editor of ten books, including: Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain (2002); Constructing the Holocaust: A Study in Historiography (2003); Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939: Before War and Holocaust (2003); The Historiography of the Holocaust (ed., 2004); History, Memory and Mass Atrocity: Essays on the Holocaust and Genocide (2006); The Historiography of Genocide (ed., 2008); and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History.

• Introduction: Thinking about the Holocaust


• 1: The 'Final Solution': A German or European Project?


• 2: The Decision-Making Process in Context


• 3: The Holocaust: Child of Modernity?


• 4: Race Science: The Basis of the Nazi Worldview?


• 5: Genocide, the Holocaust and the History of Colonialism


• 6: The Holocaust as an Expression of Nazi Culture


• Conclusion: Into the Abyss


• Further Reading


• Index