This volume uses new evidence to shed light on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship.

Introduction; Map of Poland; 1. From 'ethnic cleansing' to genocide to the 'final solution': the evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939-1941; 2. Nazi policy: decisions for the final solution; 3. Jewish workers in Poland: self-maintenance, exploitation, destruction; 4. Jewish workers and survivor memories: the case of the Starachowice Labor Camp; 5. German killers: orders from above, initiative from below, and the scope of local autonomy - the case of Brest-Litovsk; 6. German killers: behavior and motivation in the light of new evidence; Postscript; Index.