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La Germania nazista uccise circa tredici milioni di civili e altri non combattenti con deliberate politiche di omicidi di massa, soprattutto durante gli anni della guerra. Quasi la metà delle vittime furono ebree, sistematicamente annientate dall'Olocausto, fulcro del programma paneuropeo di purificazione razziale messo in atto dai nazisti. Alex Kay sostiene che è anche possibile esaminare il genocidio degli ebrei europei inse...

The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing-showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime's strategy to win the war

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), a...

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), a...

In dieser wegweisenden Biografie eines Direkttäters des Holocaust deckt Alex J. Kay das Leben des SS-Obersturmbannführers Alfred Filbert auf, der als erster Chef des SS-Einsatzkommandos 9 für die Ermordung von mehr als 18.000 sowjetischen Juden - Männer, Frauen und Kinder - hinter der Ostfront verantwortlich war. Er zeigt, wie Filbert sich nach der politisch motivierten Inhaftierung seines älteren Bruders daranmachte, seine Treue zum NS-Regime...

Essays provide current interpretations of Germany's military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941.

Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political, economic and racial reorganization of the occupied Soviet territories and bring about the deaths of 'x million people' through a conscious policy of starvat...

In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsible as the first head of SS Task Force 9, a mobile killing squad, for the murder of more than 18, 000 Soviet Jews - men, women and children - on the Eastern Front. He reveals how Filbert, following the political imprisonment of his older brother, set out to prove his own ideological allegiance by dis...