Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions
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Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions

The Mass Murder of Jewish Civilians, 1940-1942

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions

The Mass Murder of Jewish Civilians, 1940-1942

About this book

Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions is the first comprehensive English-language study of the structures and actions of German Police battalions in Poland and Ukraine between 1940 and 1942. Using these case studies, Ian Rich draws attention to the actions and motivations of individual lower-ranking policemen who participated in the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust. He illuminates their pivotal roles as organizers, educators and role models, and the ways they were able to influence their subordinates to carry out these atrocities. This book transcends anonymous group portraits and provides a micro-historical portrait of individual killers that offers broader insights into the overall actions of the SS and police under Heinrich Himmler. Rich's comprehensive analysis of SS and police personnel records and post-war trial investigations reveals the method by which police battalions were transformed into instruments of mass murder in the occupied east during the Second World War. This book is essential to all students and scholars of Holocaust studies, Jewish studies and the Second World War.

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Information

Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781350139510
eBook ISBN
9781350038042
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Structure and Personnel of Police Battalions 314 and 304
  10. 2. Roles and Training
  11. 3. Poland, 1939–1941
  12. 4. Police Battalion 314 and the Early Massacres in Volhynia
  13. 5. Police Battalion 304 and the Large-Scale Massacres of Autumn 1941
  14. 6. 1942
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index