Foreword / Theodore Zev Weiss -- Editor's acknowledgments -- Introduction / Doris L. Bergen -- I. Precedents and Antecedents -- The symbol of the cross: secularization of a metaphor from the early church to national socialism / Christina von Braun -- The first genocide of the twentieth century: the German war of destruction in South-West Africa (1904-1908) and the global history of genocide / Jürgen Zimmerer -- Suppressed memory of atrocity in World War I and its impact on World War II / Annette Becker -- The final solution turns east: how Soviet internationalism aided and abetted Nazi racial genocide / Kate Brown -- II. Testimony, History, and Memory -- Interethnic relations in the Holocaust as seen through postwar testimonies: Bucazcz, East Galicia, 1941-1944 / Omer Bartov --Infinite loneliness: some aspects of the lives of Jewish women in the Auschwitz camps according to testimonies and autobiographies written between 1945 and 1948 / Na'ama Shik -- Rereading women's Holocaust memoirs: Liana Millu's Smoke over Birkenau -- Breaking the silence of the muted witnesses: video testimonies of psychiatrically hospitalized Holocaust survivors in Israel / Dori Laub -- III. Approaches to Historical Study of the Holocaust -- Spanning a career: three editions of Raul Hilberg's Destruction of the European Jews / Christopher R. Browning -- Holocaust research and generational change: regional and local studies since the Cold War / Martin Dean -- Territorial revision and the Holocaust: Hungary and Slovakia during World War II / Holly Case -- IV. Postwar Legacies -- The myth of the clean Wehrmacht in Cold War America / Ronald Smelser -- Personal reflections on Jewish ghosts in Germany and the memory of the Holocaust / Ruth Kluger -- "Poles-Catholics" and "symbolic Jews": religion and the construction of symbolic boundaries in Poland / Geneviève Zubrzycki.