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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe is an excellent work that makes a compelling argument for a more comprehensive study of Third Reich criminality, encompassing more than the Final Solution. It provides a very effective synopsis of the state of play of Holocaust-related research and the important work being done by international scholars in a number of less-explored fields.
-- Mark Montesclaros * H-War *
A groundbreaking series of articles on German mass killing and violence during World War II
* New Books Network - Genocide *
The volume features fascinating case studies that complicate our understanding of Nazi occupational policies or reinforce our growing appreciation of its messiness on the ground.
-- Katrin Paehler * European History Quarterly *
For those who can stomach the descriptions of barbaric acts, Mass Violence in Nazi Europe provides the histories of victims who have been forgotten or erased from well-known narratives and resituates the understanding of Nazi terror as being exercised mainly in Eastern Europe. Kay and Stahel should be commended for taking on such an important volume.
-- Sanjana Rajagopal - Fordham University * Reading Religion *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Alex J. Kay / David Stahel
Part I. HOLOCAUST
1: Hitler's Generals in the East and the Holocaust
Johannes Hürter
2:Jews Sent into the Occupied Soviet Territories for Labor Deployment, 1942–1943
Martin Dean
Chapter 3: Were the Jews of North Africa included in the Practical Planning for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"?
Dan Michman
Part II. SINTI AND ROMA
4: "The definitive solution to the Gypsy question": The Pan-European Genocide of the European Roma
Wolfgang Wippermann
5: Deadly Odyssey: East Prussian Sinti in Białystok, Brest-Litovsk and Auschwitz-Birkenau
Martin Holler
Part III. "USELESS EATERS"
6: Soviet Prisoners of War in National Socialist Concentration Camps: Current Knowledge and Research Desiderata
Reinhard Otto / Rolf Keller
7: The Murder of Psychiatric Patients by the SS and the Wehrmacht in Poland and the Soviet Union, especially in Mogilev, 1939–1945
Ulrike Winkler / Gerrit Hohendorf
Part IV. WEHRMACHT
8: Reconceiving Criminality in the German Army on the Eastern Front, 1941/1942
Alex J. Kay / David Stahel
9: Bodily Conquest: Sexual Violence in the Nazi East
Waitman Wade Beorn
Part V. MEMORIALIZATION
10: The Holocaust in the Occupied USSR and its Memorialization in Contemporary Russia
Il'ya Al'tman
Chapter 11: The Baltic Movement to Obfuscate the Holocaust
Dovid Katz
Part VI. HISTORY AS COMPARISON
12: Comparing Soviet and Nazi Mass Crimes
Hans-Heinrich Nolte
Selected Bibliography
Index
