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In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party s chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining Rosenberg s diary notes with additional key documents and in-depth analysis, this book shows Rosenberg s crucial role in the Nazi regime s passing of the threshold from the persecution of Jews to their annihilation. An avid antisemite, Rosenberg helped define and shape the regime s anti-Jewish policy. In the second half of 1941 the territory administered by Rosenberg became the region where the mass murder of Jewish men, women, and children first became a systematic pattern.