How long does it take to read The Origins of the Final Solution?
The Origins of the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning takes about 11 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 34 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 631 pages, about 173,525 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1939, the Nazi regime's plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and total mass murder of all Jews within the Nazi grasp. The Origins of the Final Solution is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever written of what took place during this crucial period -- of how, precisely, the Nazis' racial policies evolved from persecution and "ethnic cleansing" to the Final Solution of the Holocaust. Focusing on the months between the German conquest of Poland in September 1939 -- which brought nearly two million additional Jews under Nazi control -- and the beginning of the deportation of Jews to the death camps in the spring of 1942, Christopher R. Browning describes how Poland became a laboratory for experiments in racial policies, from expulsion and decimation to ghettoization and exploitation under local occupation authorities. He reveals how the subsequent attack on the Soviet Union opened the door for an immense radicalization of Nazi Jewish policy and marked the beginning of the Final Solution. Meticulously documenting the process that led to this fatal development, Browning shows that Adolf Hitler was the key decision-maker throughout, approving major escalations in Nazi persecution of the Jews at victory-induced moments of euphoria. Thoroughly researched and lucidly written, this groundbreaking work provides an essential chapter in the history of the Holocaust. - Publisher.
Subjects: Politics and government, Government policy, Jews, Ethnic relations, Causes, History
