Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric patients and Soviet prisoners of war), and the crimes of the Wehrmacht. The collection concludes with a consideration of memorialization and a comparison of Soviet and Nazi mass crimes. While it has been over 70 years since the fall of the Nazi regime, the full extent of the ways violence was used against prisoners of war and civilians is only now coming to be fully understood. Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe provides new insight into the scale of the violence suffered and brings fresh urgency to the need for a deeper understanding of this horrific moment in history.
Author(s): Alex J. Kay, David Stahel
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 307
Tags: World War: 1939-1945: Atrocities, World War: 1939-1945: Atrocities: Germany, Violence: Europe: History: 20th Century, Europe: History: 20th Century, Germany, Atrocities, Violence, Europe
Introduction : understanding Nazi mass violence / Alex J. Kay and David Stahel --
Part I. Holocaust. Hitler's generals in the East and the Holocaust / Johannes Hürter --
Jews sent into the occupied Soviet territories for labor deployment, 1942-1943 / Martin Dean --
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. "The definitive solution to the gypsy question" : the Pan-European genocide of the European Roma / Wolfgang Wippermann --
Deadly odyssey : East Prussian Sinti in Białystok, Brest-Litovsk and Auschwitz-Birkenau / Martin Holler --
Part III. "Useless eaters". Soviet prisoners of war in SS concentration camps : current knowledge and research desiderata / Reinhard Otto and Rolf Keller --
The murder of psychiatric patients by the SS and the Wehrmacht in Poland and the Soviet Union, especially in Mogilev, 1939-1945 / Ulrike Winkler and Gerrit Hohendorf --
Part IV. Wehrmacht. Reconceiving criminality in the German Army on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942 / Alex J. Kay and David Stahel --
Bodily conquest : sexual violence in the Nazi East / Waitman Wade Beorn --
Part V. Memorialization. The Holocaust in the occupied USSR and its memorialization in contemporary Russia / Il'ya Al'tman --
The Baltic movement to obfuscate the Holocaust / Dovid Katz --
Part VI. History as comparison. Comparing Soviet and Nazi mass crimes / Hans-Heinrich Nolte.
