Part One: The Extermination Machine. The "Final Solution": From Shooting to Gas ; Operations Reinhard: Organization and Manpower ; Belzec: construction and Experiments ; Construction of Sobibor ; Construction of Treblinka ; Preparing for the Deportations ; Expulsion from the Ghettos ; The Trains of Death ; Belzec: March 17 to June, 1942 ; Sobibor: May to July, 1942 ; Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 1942 ; Reorganization in Treblinka ; The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel ; Jewish Working Prisoners ; Women Prisoners ; Improved Extermination Techniques and Installations ; The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government ; Deportations from Bialystok General District and Ostland ; Transports from Other European Countries ; The Extermination of Gypsies ; The Economic Plunder ; Himmler's Visit to Sobibor and Treblinka ; The Erasure of the Crimes
Part Two: Life in the Shadow of Death. Portraits of the Perpetrators ; The Prisoners' Daily Life ; The Prisoners and the Deportees ; Faith and Religion ; Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide ; social Life
Part three: Escape and Resistance. The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland ; Escapes from the Trains and Spontaneous Acts of Resistance ; Escapes from the Camps ; The Underground in Treblinka ; The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka ; August 2, 1943: The Uprising in Treblinka ; Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka ; Ideas and Organization for Resistance in Sobibor ; The Underground in Sobibor ; The Plan for the Uprising in Sobibor ; October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor ; Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor ; Survival among the Local Population ; Reports about the death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications ; an Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their Results ; Operation Erntefest ; The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard ; Epilogue.