Empire of destruction : a history of Nazi mass killing /
Nazi Germany killed approximately thirteen million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis? pan-European racial purification pro...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | Nazi Germany killed approximately thirteen million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis? pan-European racial purification program. Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can also be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time, Kay considers Europe's Jews alongside all other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers, the Soviet urban population, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals, the mentally and physically disabled, the European Roma, and the Polish intelligentsia. He shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany's ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. This groundbreaking work combines the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 376 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-357) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0300262531 9780300262537 |