- Summary
- Waitman Wade Beorn's The Holocaust in Eastern Europe provides a comprehensive history of the Holocaust in the region that was the central location of the event itself while including material often overlooked in general Holocaust history texts. First introducing Jewish life as it was lived before the Nazis in Eastern Europe, the book chronologically surveys the development of Nazi policies in the area over the period from 1939 to 1945. This book provides an overview of both the German imagination and obsession with the East and its impact on the Nazi genocidal project there. It also covers the important period of Soviet occupation and its effects on the unfolding of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. This text also treats in detail other themes such as ghettoization, the Final Solution, rescue, collaboration, resistance, and many others. Throughout, Beorn includes detailed examples of the similarities and differences of the nature of the Holocaust in various regions, in the words of perpetrators, witnesses, collaborators, and victims/survivors. -- Provided by publisher.
- Variant Title
- Holocaust in Eastern Europe : at the epicentre of the Final Solution
- Series
- Perspectives on the Holocaust
Perspectives on the Holocaust.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Beorn, Waitman Wade, 1977- author.
- Published
- London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018
©2018
- Locale
- Europe, Eastern
Osteuropa
- Contents
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Beyond the pale: pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe
The origins of the Nazi state
Nazis and the imaginary East
The Soviet interlude
Poland: the Nazi laboratory of genocide
War of annihilation: the invasion of the Soviet Union
Ghetto life and death in the East
Hitler's Eastern allies
The Final Solution
The kaleidoscope of Jewish resistance
Perpetrators, collaborators, and rescuers.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beyond the pale: pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe -- The origins of the Nazi state -- Nazis and the imaginary East -- The Soviet interlude -- Poland: the Nazi laboratory of genocide -- War of annihilation: the invasion of the Soviet Union -- Ghetto life and death in the East -- Hitler's Eastern allies -- The Final Solution -- The kaleidoscope of Jewish resistance -- Perpetrators, collaborators, and rescuers.
