Presented for the first time in English, the huge archive of secret Nazi reports reveals what life was like for German Jews and the extent to which the German population supported their social exclusion and the measures that led to their annihilation.

Otto Dov Kulka is Rosenbloom Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Eberhard Jackel is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Stuttgart.

"No serious scholar can be without access to a copy and every university library will have to invest in one. I would even commend this volume to the general reader. The introduction is wonderful and each page contains something surprising."—David Cesarani, Jewish Chronicle