Preconditions: conventional anti-Semitism and Adolf Hitler
The first stage: anti-Jewish legislation
The interim stage: "All necessary preparations"
The final stage: mass killings, "resettlement," death camps
The first ordeal: the Jews in Germany 1933-1938
The ordeals of the ghettos in Eastern Europe
The ordeals of the Judenräte
Confronting death: the ordeals of deportation
Resistance: the ordeal of desperation.