Required:
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985, 1961), pp. 572-86, 600-09, 618-29, 639-54, 655-69 (pdf).

Inga Clendinnen, Reading the Holocaust, pp. 1-27, 79-113.

Suggested:
Omer Bartov, Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).

Christopher R, Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (New York: 1993).

Christopher R. Browning, The Path To Genocide: Essays in the Launching of the Final Solution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Saul Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution (New York: HarperCollins, 1997).

Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (London, Macmillan, 1995).

Gerhard Weinberg, Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 217-244.