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The Destruction of the European Jews is a book published in 1961 by historian Raul Hilberg.

Hilberg revised his work in 1985, and it appeared in a new three-volume edition.

It is largely held to be the first comprehensive historical study of the Holocaust.

According to Holocaust historian, Michael R. Marrus ( The Holocaust in History ), until the book appeared, little information about the genocide of the Jews by Nazi Germany had " reached the wider public " in both the West and the East, and even in pertinent scholarly studies it was " scarcely mentioned or only in passing as one more atrocity in a particularly cruel war.