Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine

"The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War was central to Nazi plans for territorial expansion and genocidal demographic revolution. To create "living space," Nazi Germany pursued two policies. The first was the systematic murder of millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other groups that the Nazis found undesirable on racial, religious, ethnic, ideological, hereditary, or behavioral grounds"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. From privileged to persecuted: the Black Sea Germans, 1800-1941; 2. Sonderkommando R: the men and women who made Germans and created killers; 3. Establishing Nazi rule in Transnistria; 4. The mass murder of Transnistria's Jews, December 1941-April 1942; 5. The Volksgemeinschaft in Transnistria, 1942-4; 6. The Black Sea Germans and the Holocaust; Conclusion.

About the author

Eric C. Steinhart earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2010. His dissertation received the 2011 Fritz Stern Prize from the Friends of the German Historical Institute for best doctoral dissertation on German history written in North America. From 2009 until 2012, he worked as a historian for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, serving as the Curt C. and Else Silberman International Tracing Service Research Scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Eric C. Steinhart, Eric Charles Steinhart
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2015
• EAN: 9781107061231
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06123-1
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute; Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ukraine, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949