Mass violence in Nazi-occupied Europe /

Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Kay, Alex J. (Editor), Stahel, David, 1975- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2018
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: understanding Nazi mass violence
  • Part I. Holocaust: Hitler's generals in the east and the holocaust
  • Jews sent into the occupied Soviet territories for labor deployment, 1942-1943
  • Were the Jews of North Africa included in the practical planning for the "final solution of the Jewish question"?
  • Part II. Sinti and Roma: "The definitive solution to the gypsy question": the Pan-European genocide of the European Roma
  • Deadly odyssey: East Prussian Sinti in Bialystok, Brest-Litovsk, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
  • Part III. "Useless eaters": Soviet prisoners of war in SS Concentration Camps: current knowledge and research desiderata
  • The murder of psychiatric patients by the SS and the Wehrmacht in Poland and the Soviet Union, especially in Mogilev, 1939-1945
  • Part IV. Wehrmacht: Reconceiving criminality in the German Army on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942
  • Bodily conquest: sexual violence in the Nazi East
  • Part V. Memorialization: The holocaust in the occupied USSR and its memorialization in contemporary Russia
  • The Baltic movement to obfuscate the Holocaust
  • Part VI. History as comparison: Comparing Soviet and Nazi mass crimes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index
  • Back matter.