TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rich, Ian
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Holocaust perpetrators of the German police battalions: the mass murder of Jewish civilians, 1940-1942
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
CY  - London
KW  - History
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Poland
KW  - Police
KW  - Germany
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - European history
KW  - Jewish studies
KW  - Military history
KW  - Electronic books
AB  - "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
SN  - 9781350038059
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350038059
DO  - 10.5040/9781350038059
LA  - English
N1  - Ian Rich
ID  - 1034146688
ER  -