Timeline -- Man's inhumanity to man : a short historical background -- Setting the National Socialist (Nazi) stage -- The total Nazification of Germany -- The changing lives of Jews -- Prologue to World War II -- World War II begins -- Moving into the ghettos -- Life in the ghettos of Poland -- Coping with life in a "concentration" world -- Einsatzgruppen in the East -- The Wannsee Conference : planning the "Final Solution" -- The "Final Solution" : the plan -- Deportation and the behavior of Jewish leadership -- The roundups -- Deportations : country by country -- The terrifying journey to the East -- Auschwitz -- Life in the lunatic world of the concentration camps -- The cover-up -- The death marches -- Resistance -- The lives of the rescuers and the rescued -- Liberation -- The Nuremberg trials -- Aftermath -- Denying history -- Genocide continues : Cambodia, Rawanda, Sudan -- The twenty-first century : modern slavery in a global economy -- Child soldiers in the modern army -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Searching for answers through tribute celebrations -- Glossary.