Recasting the view of antisemitism: A framework for analysis -- The evolution of eliminationist antisemitism in modern Germany -- Eliminationist antisemitism: The "common sense" of German society during the Nazi period -- The Nazis' assault on the Jews: Its character and evolution -- The agents and machinery of destruction -- Police battalions: Agents of genocide -- Police Battalion 101: The men's deeds -- Police battalion 101: Assessing the men's motives -- Police battalions: Lives, killings, and motives -- The sources and pattern of Jewish "work" during the Nazi period -- Life in the "work" camps -- Work and death -- The deadly way -- Marching to what end? -- Explaining the perpetrators' actions: Assessing the competing explanations -- Eliminationist antisemitism as genocidal motivation.