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.

pt. 1. For greater Germany. -- 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 -- pt. 2. The new order. -- Making occupation pay -- Workers -- Ersatz diplomacy -- The final solution: the Jewish question -- Collaboration -- Eastern helpers -- Opposition -- Hitler kaputt! -- pt. 3. Perspectives. -- We Europeans -- The new order in world history.