Controversies

Intentions

How did the "Jewish problem" become the Holocaust

Timing

When did Germany decide on extermination of European Jews? Christopher Browning in a review article in the NY Review of Books, argues that the "line was crossed" from expulsion and decimation to extermination some time between September 18 1941 and October 25, 1941.

Whose Holocaust

Did the Holocaust include the extermination of non-Jews? The lesson plan about non-Jewish victims of the Nazis from the Center for Holocaust Education discusses why the Holocaust refers to the Nazi plan to exterminate all the Jews in, at the least, Europe.