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Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers
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by Christopher R. Browning
Cambridge University Press
Due/Published
February 2000, 208 pages,
paper
ISBN
052177490X
Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers focuses on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. How did Nazi Jewish policy evolve during the first years of the war? When did the Nazi regime cross the historic watershed from population expulsion and decimation ("ethnic cleansing") to total and systematic extermination? How did Nazi authorities attempt to reconcile policies of expulsion and extermination with the wartime urge to exploit Jewish labor? How were Jewish workers impacted? What role did local authorities play in shaping Nazi policy? What more can we learn about the mindset and behavior of the local perpetrators? Using new evidence, Browning sheds light on these questions. "Browning is one of the leaders in the study of the Holocaust, and the essays in this book confirm his reputation. The essays explore imporant and often neglected aspects of the Holocaust, and are original, well argued and incredibly well researched. In the book, he focuses on the victimes and the perpetrators, using oral testimony and documentary evidence. There is a lot of drama in each stosry, and I found them quite stimulating. Together they offer both interesting theoretical perspectives, and substantive new information."--Robert Gellately, Strassler Professor in Holocaust History, Clark University Contents 1. From "Ethnic Cleansing" to Genocide to the "Final Solution": The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939-1941
2. Nazi Policy: Decisions for the Final Solution
3. Jewish Labor in Poland: Self-Maintenance, Exploitation, Destruction
4. Jewish Labor and Survivor Memories: The Case of the Starachowice Labor Camp
5. German Killers: Orders from Above, Initiative from Below, and the Scope of Local Autonomy The Case of Brest-Litovsk
6. German Killers: Behavior and Motivation in the Light of New Evidence |
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