Includes bibliographical references (p. 648-672) and index.

Germans and Slavs: 1848-1918 -- Versailles to Vienna -- Expansion and escalation: 1938-40 -- The partition of Poland -- Summer 1940 -- War of annihilation: into the Soviet Union -- Make this land German for me again! -- Organizing disorder: 1941-2 -- The new order -- Making occupation pay -- Workers -- Ersatz diplomacy -- The final solution: the Jewish question -- Collaboration -- Eastern helpers -- Opposition -- Hitler kaputt! -- Perspectives -- We Europeans -- The new order in world history.

Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mark Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war.