Masters of Death: The Ss-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust

Masters of Death: The Ss-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
ISBN-10
0375708227
ISBN-13
9780375708220
Series
Masters of Death
Category
History
Pages
335
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Richard Rhodes

Description

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian challenges traditional interpretations of the Holocaust in a study that describes the role of the Einsatzgruppen, task forces deployed in Eastern Europe by the SS, whose job was to slaughter Eastern European Jews, the development of less personalized means of murder, and Hitler's eventual plans to annihilate members of other ethnic groups. Reprint.

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