Eichmann's Men

Informationen zum Autor Hans Safrian lectures in history at the Institute für Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna. He was also a Pearl Resnick Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Research Team Leader for the Independent Commission of Experts - Switzerland - Second World War, and a research historian for the Historic Commission of the Republic of Austria. He is the author of numerous works on World War II and Nazi war crimes. Klappentext Examines National Socialist perpetrators who expelled Jews from their homelands and deported them to ghettos! concentration camps and killing centers in Eastern Europe. Zusammenfassung This book examines a central group of National Socialist perpetrators who expelled German! Austrian! and Czech Jews from their homelands and deported massive numbers of them to the ghettos! concentration camps! and killing centers of occupied Eastern Europe. Safrian reconstructs the 'careers' of Eichmann and his men in connection with the implementation of racial policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Eichmann and the development of the Vienna model; 2. An unsuccessful start: the deportations to Nisko on the River San; 3. The development and initial activities of Referat IV D 4; 4. 1941: from expulsion to mass murder; 5. 1941: controversies over the deportations to the occupied areas of the Soviet Union; 6. 1942: the establishment of the genocide program; 7. 1942: collaboration and deportations; 8. The destruction of the Jewish community of Salonika: the cooperation of the SS and Wehrmacht; 9. 1943-4: manhunts in France and Greece; 10. 1944-5: manhunts in Hungary and Slovakia; 11. The post-war era.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Safrian, Safrian Hans
• Assisted by: Ute Stargardt (Translation), Stargardt Ute (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521617260
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61726-0
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater