Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe [Hardcover]

Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europeargues 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), and the crimes of the Wehrmacht. The collection concludes with a consideration of memorialization and a comparison of Soviet and Nazi mass crimes. While it has been over 70 years since the fall of the Nazi regime, the full extent of the ways violence was used against prisoners of war and civilians is only now coming to be fully understood.Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europeprovides new insight into the scale of the violence suffered and brings fresh urgency to the need for a deeper understanding of this horrific moment in history.

Ilya Altmanis Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, as well as founder and co-chairman of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre. He is the author of many books includingZhertvy nenavisti: Kholokost v SSSR 1941  1945 gg.

Waitman Wade Beornis Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author ofMarching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus,which received the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard Press.

Martin Deanworked from 1992 to 1997 for the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London. His publications includeCollaboration in the Holocaust(2000) andRobbing the Jews.

Gerrit Hohendorfis Associate Professor, MD, psychiatrist, medical historian and medical ethicist. He holds a permanent teaching position at the Institute for History and Ethics lS4