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Empire of Destruction
2021
Overview
The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass
killing - showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the
regime's strategy to win the war Nazi Germany killed
approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in
deliberate policies of mass murder, mostly during the war years.
Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in
the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis' pan-European racial
purification programme. Alex Kay argues that the genocide of
European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass
killing. For the first time, Empire of Destruction
considers Europe's Jews alongside all the 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. Kay 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. Combining the full
quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror, this
is a vital and groundbreaking work.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Subject
/ Camps de concentration nazis -- Allemagne
/ Germany -- Military policy -- History -- 20th century
/ Germany fast (OCoLC)fst01210272
/ Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Juifs
/ History
/ History fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
/ Jews fast (OCoLC)fst00983135
/ Mass murder -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
/ Mass murder fast (OCoLC)fst01011417
/ Meurtre multiple -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
/ Military policy fast (OCoLC)fst01021386
/ Nazi concentration camps -- Germany
/ Nazi concentration camps fast (OCoLC)fst02025836
ISBN
9780300234053, 0300234058
