Introduction: Power, Power Sharing, and Mass Crimes
Part I: Power-Sharing Occupation Administration and Persecution of the Jews
German Occupation and the Persecution of the Jews in Western Europe, 1940-1944
The German Occupation Administration in France after the Armistice of 22 June 1940
The French Government and Administration and the "Collaboration"
Establishing a Machinery of Persecution
Part II: The SS as Political Actor
The SS in the Power Struggle with the Wehrmacht Administration, 1941-1942
Sectoral Balance of Power and State Collaboration in the Persecution of the Jews : the Oberg-Bousquet Agreement of August 1942
Part III: Erosion of Power and the Emergence of Resistance
The Protest of the Christian Churches and the Suspension of Eichmann's Deportation Plan
Another Attempt : the Project of a Denaturalization Law
Italy's Stance and Its Repercussions for the Persecution Measures against the Jews in France
Part IV: Strategic Occupation Policy and the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"
Safeguarding the Collaboration at the Expense of the "Final Solution"
The Failure of the Denaturalization Law
"Wild" Persecution of Jews
Conclusion: Negotiated Mass Crime and the Power of Morality
Short Biographies of the Key Actors.