The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945

Saul Friedländer's monumental work concludes with this volume, detailing the systematic extermination policies enacted by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. It explores the many factors that enabled the murder of six million European Jews, from local cooperation to the victims' desperate hope for survival. Drawing on extensive documents, diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book offers a definitive account of the Holocaust.