Eichmann's Men

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-85156-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

More than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: how could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women, and children, persecuted as Jews or Gypsies, happen? Now available in English, Hans Safrian's path-breaking work on Adolf Eichmann and his Nazi helpers chronicles the escalation of Nazi anti-Semitic policies beginning in 1933 and during World War II to the 'final solution'. This book examines a central group of National Socialist perpetrators who expelled German, Austrian, and Czech Jews from their homelands and deported massive numbers of them to the ghettos, concentration camps, and killing centers of occupied Eastern Europe. Safrian reconstructs the 'careers' of Eichmann and his men in connection with the implementation of racial policies, particularly the gradual marginalization of their victims and the escalation from stigmatization, divestment, and segregation to deportation, forced labor, and, finally, mass murder.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Safrian, Hans

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stargardt, Ute

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Eichmann and the development of the Vienna model; 2. An unsuccessful start: the deportations to Nisko on the River San; 3. The development and initial activities of Referat IV D 4; 4. 1941: from expulsion to mass murder; 5. 1941: controversies over the deportations to the occupied areas of the Soviet Union; 6. 1942: the establishment of the genocide program; 7. 1942: collaboration and deportations; 8. The destruction of the Jewish community of Salonika: the cooperation of the SS and Wehrmacht; 9. 1943–4: manhunts in France and Greece; 10. 1944–5: manhunts in Hungary and Slovakia; 11. The post-war era.

Über Autor(innen)

Safrian, Hans
Hans Safrian lectures in history at the Institute für Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna. He was also a Pearl Resnick Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Research Team Leader for the Independent Commission of Experts - Switzerland - Second World War, and a research historian for the Historic Commission of the Republic of Austria. He is the author of numerous works on World War II and Nazi war crimes.