Precedents : chapter 1
Antecedents : chapter 2
Scope and Organization : chapter 3
The Destruction Process I : part 1
Definition : chapter 4
Expropriation : chapter 5
Dismissals
Aryanizations
Property Taxes
Blocked Money
Forced Labor and Wage Regulations
Income Taxes
Starvation Measures
Concentration : chapter 6
The Reich-Protektorat Area
Poland
The Destruction Process II : part 2
Mobile Killing Operations : chapter 7
Preparations
The First Sweep
The Killing of the Prisoners of War
The Intermediary Stage
The Second Sweep
Deportations : chapter 8
The Reich-Protektorat Area
Poland
The Semicircular Arc
Killing Center Operations : chapter 9
Origins of the Killing Centers
Organization, Personnel, and Maintenance
Labor Utilization
Medical Experiments
Confiscations
Killing Operations
Liquidation of the Killing Centers and the End of the Destruction Process
Conclusion : part 3
Reflections : chapter 10
The Perpetrators
The Victims
Consequences : chapter 11
The Trials
Rescue
Salvage
Implications : chapter 12

Preface: "To begin with, a word should be said about the scope of this book. Lest one be misled by the word "Jews" in the title, let it be pointed out that this is not a book about the Jews. It is a book about the people who destroyed the Jews. Not much will be read here about the victims. The focus is placed on the perpetrators. The following chapters will describe the vast organization of the Nazi machinery of destruction and the men who performed important functions in this machine. They will reveal the correspondence, memoranda, and conference minutes which were passed from desk to desk as the German bureaucracy made its weighty and drastic decisions to destroy, utterly and completely, the Jews of Europe. They will deal with the administrative and psychological obstacles which blocked action from time to time, and they will show how these impediments were cleared away. On the other hand, there will be no emphasis on the effects of the German measures upon Jewry in Europe and elsewhere. We shall not dwell on Jewish suffering, nor shall we explore the social characteristics of ghetto life or camp existence. Insofar as we may examine Jewish institutions, we will do so primarily through the eyes of the Germans: as tools which were used in the destruction process. In short, this study does not encompass the internal developments of Jewish organization and Jewish social structure. That is Jewish history. It is concerned with the storm that caused the wreckage. That is a part of Western history. The history of the West has at times been shaped by the Jews. It has been changed no less - and perhaps more so - by those who have acted against the Jews, for when I do something to another, I also do something to myself. The total import of the German measures has not yet been explored; the destruction of the European Jews has not yet been absorbed as a historical event. This does not mean a general denial that millions of people have disappeared, nor does it imply a serious doubt that masses of these people were shot in ditches and gassed in camps. But acknowledgment of a fact does not signify its acceptance in an academic sense. Unprecedented occurrences of such magnitude are accepted academically only when they are studied as tests of existing conceptions about force, about relations between cultures, about society as a whole. Only a generation ago, the incidents described in this book would have been considered improbable, infeasible, or even inconceivable. Now they have happened. The destruction of the Jews was a process of extremes. That, precisely, is why it is so important as a group phenomenon. That is why it can serve as a test of social and political theories. But to perform such tests, it is not enough to know that the Jews have been destroyed; one must also grasp how this deed was done. That is the story to be told in this book..."