  The paper treats the validity problem of the nonrelativistic Vlasov-Poisson
equation in $d\geq 2$ dimensions. It is shown that the Vlasov-Poisson dynamics
can be derived as a combined mean field and point-particle limit of an
N-particle Coulomb system of extended charges. This requires a sufficiently
fast convergence of the initial empirical distributions. If the electron radius
decreases slower than $N^{-\frac{1}{d(d+2)}}$, the corresponding initial
configurations are typical. This result entails propagation of molecular chaos
for the respective dynamics
