The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution (Perspectives on the Holocaust) by Waitman Wade Beorn (PDF)

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Waitman Wade Beorn’s The Holocaust in Eastern Europe provides a comprehensive history of the Holocaust in the region that was the central location of the event itself while including material often overlooked in general Holocaust history texts. First introducing Jewish life as it was lived before the Nazis in Eastern Europe, the book chronologically surveys the development of Nazi policies in the area over the period from 1939 to 1945. This book provides an overview of both the German imagination and obsession with the East and its impact on the Nazi genocidal project there. It also covers the important period of Soviet occupation and its effects on the unfolding of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. This text also treats in detail other themes such as ghettoization, the Final Solution, rescue, collaboration, resistance, and many others. Throughout, Beorn includes detailed examples of the similarities and differences of the nature of the Holocaust in various regions, in the words of perpetrators, witnesses, collaborators, and victims/survivors. Beorn also illustrates the complex nature of the Holocaust by discussing the difficult subjects of collaboration, sexual violence, the use of slave labour, treatment of Soviet POWs, profiteering and others within a larger narrative framework. He also explores key topics like Jewish resistance, Jewish councils, memory, and explanations for perpetration, collaboration, and rescue. The book includes images and maps to orient the reader to the topic area. This important book explains the brutality and complexity of the Holocaust in the East for all students of the Holocaust and 20th-century Eastern European history.

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⭐This is not a work of primary-source research, it’s a summary presentation of a very, very large aspect of the Holocaust (everything that happened east of Germany, and the German thinking and planning that made the Holocaust in the east what it was). Crisp, well-organized, it lays out all the essential issues and events with unparalleled clarity. Do you want to understand German thinking about Lebensraum (colonial ambitions in the East)? Ghettos in theory and practice? German military death squads? The development of gas as a method of mass murder? Partisan resistance? Each has it’s own, self-contained chapter. Excellent research is combined methodological clarity AND brevity to make this the textbook we all wish we were assigned in college. I read it all in sittings over three days and, despite reading about the Holocaust for over four decades, I learned something new at every sitting. I know it’s supposedly only about the East, but that’s where 4/5ths of the Holocaust unfolded. Sure to become a standard work. If you are going to read one history of the SHoah, I think this is it. Comprehensive, yet comprehensible. Well done.

⭐A must on the Holocaust. You have to read this to get to know more about the Holcoaust in general, and about the in the East.Great piece of work and easy to read, interestin. It is more than worthwhile

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