The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution - Softcover

The Nazi Holocaust haunts the modern imagination as one of the most compelling examples of the human capacity for organized atrocity. This authoritative account of Nazi Jewish policy seeks to determine what actually happened between the outbreak of war and the emergence of the Final Solution.

"...a handy stocktaking of scholarship on some key questions about the Holocaust." Central European History

"...the clarity as well as economy with which he writes, his firm grasp of the evidence and the balanced judgment he brings to its interpretation make this a most impressive performance....[Browning] uses his flair for uncovering new archival material to throw light on the attitudes and roles of a variety of people who became invlved in carrying out the Final Solution....Christopher Browning places himself in the front rank of historians of the Holocaust." Times Literary Supplement

"...well written, densely footnoted, and a significant contribution to understanding the critical events that led to the gas chambers." German Studies Review

"A magisterial, rigorously meditated study of how the industrialized murder of millions got under way." The New York Times Book Review

"...an impressive collection of essays by one of the foremost historians of the Holocaust." Dimensions

"Browning's arguments provide a sensible balance to those interpretations of the origins of the Holocaust that have focused exclusively on either Hitler or the Nazi system." Johnpeter Horst Grill, History

"A meticulously researched, harrowing look at the evil humanity is capable of." Doug Wyatt, Savannah (GA) News/Press