Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-255) and index.
Knights, nationalists and the historians -- Albert Brackmann, Ostforscher : the years of retirement -- "See you again in Siberia" : the German-Soviet war and other tragedies -- Psychiatry, German society and the Nazi "euthanasia" programme -- Churches, eugenics and the Nazi "euthanasia" programme -- Nazi analogy and contemporary debates on euthanasia -- Racial state revisited -- "Political economy of the final solution"? reflections on modernity, historians and the holocaust -- Realm of shadows : recent writing on the holocaust