{"product_id":"the-final-solution-in-riga-exploitation-and-annihilation-1941-1944-9781845456085","title":"The 'Final Solution' in Riga: Exploitation and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tGhetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists’ policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during the Second World War. Drawing upon a broad array of sources that includes previously inaccessible Soviet archives, postwar criminal investigations, and trial records of alleged perpetrators, and the records of the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, the authors have produced an in-depth study of the Riga ghetto that never loses sight of the Latvian capital’s place within the overall design of Nazi policy and the all-of-Europe dimension of the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“With its …[over thousand] detailed and expansive footnotes drawing on twenty-four different archive collections in eight countries and three continents and an enormous secondary literature, this is one of the best researched regional studies of the Holocaust ever to appear. It is helped by the fact that the authors are also always so cognizant of what was happening elsewhere in Europe at the same time and thus frequently draw out the relationship between seemingly haphazard local decisions and trends across Europe…Indeed, the way in which the book ‘makes sense’ of complex institutional behavior is at times breathtaking…The precision in the detail and the scope of the contextualization make this one of the more important works to appear on the Holocaust in recent years.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• English Historical Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Translated flawlessly from German into English by Ray Brandon, [this] readable and engaging study eminently meets the series\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e high standards of scholarship. Its 17-page bibliography lists old classics as well as the most recent publications, and the copious, annotated endnotes following each chapter constitute a parallel book in themselves. Although the authors rely heavily on the much-researched Federal Republic archives, they also introduce materials that became accessible only with the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union itself.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• European History Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This very readable and well documented study fills an important gap in the Holocaust literature: it offers insight into the microcosm reflecting the entire terrifying and murderous scenario of the SS State.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[This] excellent study of the Riga ghetto, informed by Eastern European sources and available now in English translation, provides a precise and ghastly description of what [the liquidation] meant for the local Jews. With laudable thoroughness, they describe the organized shooting of Jews, the first form of industrial-scale mass murder.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• The New York Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tChart I\u003cbr\u003e \tChart II\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Latvia Caught between Two Dictatorships\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/b\u003eOperation Barbarossa: Preparations for the German Attack on the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e From the Pogroms to the Establishment of the Ghetto\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Securing German Rule in Occupied Riga: The Period of the Large Ghetto for Latvian Jews\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Murder on a Massive Scale: The Murder of the Ghetto’s Latvian Jews\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e In Search of Territories for the “Final Solution”: The Road to Riga as a Final Destination for Deportations\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Plans for the Salaspils Camp\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e The Deportation of German Jews to Riga\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e The Salaspils Camp: A Detention Center with Many Functions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e German Jews Build Salaspils: December 1941–August 1942\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eExcursus I:\u003c\/b\u003e SS Major Rudolf Lange and the Wannsee Conference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e The Latvian Labor Market and the Compulsory Deployment of Jews in Riga\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e The Utilization of Jewish Assets and the Issue of Ghetto Administration\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Ghetto Life and Forced Labor in Riga in the Spring of 1942\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e The Turning Point: Operation Dünamünde at Jungfernhof and in the “Ghetto for Reich Jews”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Forced Labor and Annihilation in County Commissariat Riga City\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/b\u003e Failed Resistance: The Tin Square Operation, October 1942\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/b\u003e Annihilation Instead of Forced Labor: Himmler’s Struggle against Production Constraints and Armaments Interests in General Commissariat Latvia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 18.\u003c\/b\u003e Concentration Camp Kaiserwald and the Barrackings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eExcursus II:\u003c\/b\u003e SS Second Lieutenant Fritz Scherwitz, The Commander at Lenta: A Biographical Sketch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 19.\u003c\/b\u003e The Decommissioning of Concentration Camp Kaiserwald, Evacuation, and Liberation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 20.\u003c\/b\u003e A New Start and the Search for Justice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 21.\u003c\/b\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042981839191,"sku":"9781845456085","price":118.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845456085.jpg?v=1750956509","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-final-solution-in-riga-exploitation-and-annihilation-1941-1944-9781845456085","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}