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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795178903321

Autore

Rich Ian

Titolo

Holocaust perpetrators of the German police battalions [[electronic resource] ] : the mass murder of Jewish civilians, 1940-1942 / / Ian Rich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

ISBN

1-350-03803-2

1-350-03805-9

1-350-03804-0

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 241 pages)

Disciplina

363.20943

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Jews - Persecutions

Police - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-233).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The structure and personnel of Police Battalions 314 and 304 -- Roles and training -- Poland, 1939-1941 -- Police Battalion 314 and the early massacres in Volhynia -- Police Battalion 304 and the large-scale massacres of autumn 1941 -- 1942 -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.