Francis R. Nicosia is Professor of History and the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2008), the coeditor of Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Dilemmas and Responses (2010), and the coauthor of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000). Nicosia was a Revson Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2000 to 2001 and a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Berlin from 1992 to 1993 and from 2006 to 2007. He received the Carnegie Foundation's Vermont Professor of the Year award in 2000 and the Holocaust Educational Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award in 2014.
Introduction
1. Continuity and departure: imperial and Weimar Germany
2. Hitler, race, and the world beyond Europe
3. Germany and the Arab world, 1933-7
4. The coming of war, 1938-9
5. From the periphery to the center, 1940-1
6. The Axis and Arab independence, 1941-2
7. Collapse and irrelevance, 1943-4
Conclusions.
