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Chapter 1 provides a brief historical summary of the Holocaust, beginning with relevant events in Germany in the years leading up to the initiation of mass killing that accompanied the invasion of Russia in June 1941. While Auschwitz dominates the popular conception of what the Holocaust was, much of the killing was accomplished not with Zyklon B but with bullets and engine exhaust gas, and much of it occurred during the relatively short interval between early 1942 and mid-1943. The Holocaust was a complicated enterprise distributed over time and space that was “more” than it is in the popular mind in almost every way: more than Jews, more than Auschwitz, more than the Gestapo and Schutzstaffel (SS), more than Nazis, more even than Germans. |
