The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution

Beorn, Waitman (2018) The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution. Perspectives on the Holocaust . Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781474232197, 9781474232180, 9781474232210, 9781474232227, 9781474232203

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Abstract

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.Beorn also illustrates the complex nature of the Holocaust by discussing the difficult subjects of collaboration, sexual violence, the use of slave labour, treatment of Soviet POWs, profiteering and others within a larger narrative framework. He also explores key topics like Jewish resistance, Jewish councils, memory, and explanations for perpetration, collaboration, and rescue. The book includes images and maps to orient the reader to the topic area.This important book explains the brutality and complexity of the Holocaust in the East for all students of the Holocaust and 20th-century Eastern European history.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Holocaust, Eastern Europe, History, Jewish History, Genocide, Germany, Nazism, World War II
Subjects:	V100 History by period V200 History by area V300 History by topic
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User:	Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2019 15:59
Last Modified:	20 Aug 2019 15:59
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/40418

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