Final Solution (Cesarani book)
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Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933–1949 is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Cesarani.
In The Daily Telegraph Sarah Helm stated that the book is "demonstrating with urgency and verve how Hitler’s progress towards mass extermination of the Jews was never pre-planned or preordained."[1] Instead, according to Helm, the book demonstrates that "improvisation and chance" were crucial to the Holocaust. Helm added that the book shows that people who collaborated with the Nazis did much of the work in the Holocaust rather than the Nazis themselves, and it also "challenges the widely held view that the extermination of the Jews was ever Hitler’s first priority."[1]
In The New York Times Nicholas Stargardt stated that "Cesarani finally wrote the book he had turned away from writing 15 years earlier."[2]