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This article offers a comprehensive interpretation of the Romanian 'policy' towards Jews in Transnistria in 1941-1944. This region in southwestern Ukraine witnessed both a monstrous number of Jewish victims, usually estimated as no fewer than 250,000 and possibly more, and an unusually high survival rate by the standards of the occupied Soviet territory. The article argues that what is sometimes referred ...

For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did "ordinary Germans" know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know it, and how did they respond collectively and as individuals? This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading ...

"As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetrator research by bringing together contributions from such diverse disciplines as political science, sociology, social psychology, history, anthropology and gender studies, allowing for a truly interdisciplinary discussion of the phenomenon of perpetration. ...

Introduction: The death of the perpetrator, or the uncountable time of his eternity / Sévane Garibian ; Tyrannicide and international law: can they possibly coexist? / Élodie Tranchez ; "Commanded by my mother's corpse": Talaat Pasha, or the revenge assassination of a condemned man / Sévane Garibian ; The metamorphoses of Mussolini's body / Didier Musiedlak ; Atoning for the murder of millions? ...

In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined the location of many mass gravesites with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian ...

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention. Missing, however, is the contribution of economists to better understand and prevent such crimes. This edited collection by 41 accomplished scholars examines economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention. Chapters include numerous case studies (e.g., ...

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Vinnitsa region, 1944
 
 The collection includes documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Vinnitsa region, June-November 1944, and includes documents, testimonies and survey reports regarding the murder of Jews during the German occupation.
 
 The documentation includes statistical reports, ...

Scherrer examines the ethnicized conflicts, periodic war, and genocide in Rwanda and Burundi. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda may have resulted in the murder of a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu, while the mass killings in Burundi, especially in 1993 when some 200,000 Hutu and Tutsi were killed, and the current ongoing war in the Congo appear to have the potential to escalate into another round of genocide ...

This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kuhne reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third Reich's pursuit ...

Double-sided leaflet dropped over Germany in late 1942 following the December 17, 1942 declaration by the United Kingdom and United States stating explicitly that the German authorities were engaging in mass murder of the European Jews. The leaflet describes the deportations and mass murder already underway, and promises postwar punishment for those responsible.