1. Thinking about the six million: facts, figures, perspectives : Statistics of death: the war ; Statistics of death: mass murder ; The Jews: a special case ; The Holocaust universalized: metaphor and analogy ; The lesson of national socialism
2. The eye of the beholder: the Holocaust according to English and American historians : Lessons of the textbooks ; The invisible Jews ; Warps of historical method ; The British perspective ; "This wicked man Hitler" ; Hitler on the couch ; Mass pathology in history
3. The shadow of the past: German historians confront national socialism : The German historiographic heritage ; The historians and the Third Reich ; Anti-Semitism in the guise of scholarship ; The unmastered past: Nazism as discontinuity ; Continuity restored to German history
4. Palimpsest history: erasing the Holocaust in the USSR : Style and substance: Marxism-Leninism and the party line ; The history of the Second World War revised and standardized ; The Holocaust as historiographic problem ; Erasing the Jews from Soviet history ; The tables turned: victims into victimizers
5. Appropriating the Holocaust: Polish historical revisionism : The shaping of Polish national consciousness ; The Anti-Semitic heritage in wartime Poland and after ; Poland: the resistive SOviet satellite ; The tangled web of Polish historiography, 1944-1956 ; The Holocaust in the light of the Polish October ; The gathering clouds ; 1968: the savagery of Anti-Semitism ; 1968: The mockery of historical truth ; History done, redone, and undone ; The end of a millennial history
6. The perspective of catastrophe: the Holocaust in Jewish history : The survivor as chronicler ; Martyrdom and resistance ; Judenrat: The charge of collaboration ; The perspective of Jewish history.
