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Informationen zum Autor Yitzhak Arad served as the director of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Authority, from 1972 to 1993. He is now retired but continues to research and write about the Holocaust. He is the author or editor of several books, including Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union, 8th edition (Nebraska 1999); Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder; and Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. Klappentext Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during the World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews. Arad's examination of the differences between the Holocaust in the Soviet Union compared to other European nations reveals how Nazi ideological attacks on the Soviet Union, which included war on "Judeo-Bolshevism," led to harsher treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union than in most other occupied territories. This historical narrative presents a wealth of information from German, Russian, and Jewish archival sources that will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, and the general public for years to come. Zusammenfassung Presents the most complete account to date of Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals dictated the treatment of Jews. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefacePart 1. The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union before World War II1. Jews in Czarist Russia2. Jews in the USSR and in the Annexed Territories between the Two World WarsPart 2. The Impact of Political and Military Developments on the Jews of Eastern Europe, September 1, 1939, to June 22, 19413. German-Soviet Relations and Geopolitical Changes in Eastern Europe 4. The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories 5. Preparations in Germany for the Attack on the Soviet Union and the Annihilation of the Jews Part 3. The German Attack on the Soviet Union6. Invasion under the Slogan "War on Judeo-Bolshevism" 7. Evacuation of the Soviet Population: Jews in Organized and Individual Evacuation 8. Anti-Jewish Pogroms during the Early Days of Occupation 9. The German Administration in the Occupied Territories and Its Anti-Jewish Policy Part 4. Mass Murder, First Stage: June 22, 1941, to Winter 1941-4210. Einsatzgruppen Routes of Advance and Method of Extermination 11. Reichskommissariat Ostland: Ghettos and Extermination 12. Reichskommissariat Ukraine: Ghettos and Extermination 13. Military Administration Areas: Ghettos and Extermination 14. Extermination of the Jews of Crimea 15. The German Army from "Freedom of Action" for the Einsatzgruppen to Active Collaboration in the Murders 16. Persecution of the Jews in District Galicia 17. Romania and Transnistria: Expulsion and Mass Murder Part 5. Mass Murder, Second Stage: From Spring to Late 194218. The Killing Actions in Ostland and the Grodno-Volkovysk Region (Generalbezirk Bialystok) 19. Annihilation in Reichskommissariat Ukraine 20. Mass Murder in District Galicia: Operation Reinhard 21. Annihilation in Areas under Military Administration 22. Transnistria: Life in the Shadow of Death Part 6. Mass...