Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe

Il'ya Al'tman is 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 including Zhertvy nenavisti: Kholokost v SSSR 1941 – 1945 gg.Waitman Wade Beorn is Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, which received the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard Press.Martin Dean worked from 1992 to 1997 for the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London. His publications include Collaboration in the Holocaust (2000) and Robbing the Jews. Gerrit Hohendorf is Associate Professor, MD, psychiatrist, medical historian and medical ethicist. He holds a permanent teaching position at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Technical University of Munich. Martin Holler, M.A., studied history and Slavic (Polish and Russian) literature. He is the author of various works on the fate of Roma in Nazi-occupied Europe, including the monograph Der nationalsozialistische Völkermord an den Roma in der besetzten Sowjetunion 1941–1944. Johannes Hürter is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History Munich–Berlin and Professor of Modern History at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He is the author of Wilhelm Groener: Reichswehrminister am Ende der Weimarer Republik (1928–1932). Dovid Katz is Professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. He is the author of numerous books and studies, and has conducted thousands of hours of interviews with Holocaust survivors. His website is www.DovidKatz.net.. Rolf Keller is the head of the department 'Memorials Development in Lower Saxony' at the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation (Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten), Celle. He is the author most recently of Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene im Deutschen Reich 1941/42. Dan Michman is Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, and serves also as Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Israel. He is the author most recently of The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust.Hans-Heinrich Nolte was Professor for the History of Eastern Europe in Hanover, 1980–2003, and Guest Professor for Global History in Vienna, 2003–2014. He is the author most recently of World and Global History. Reinhard has researched and published widely on Soviet prisoners of war in German captivity and in Scandinavia during the Second World War. From 2000 to 2006 he was the academic coordinator of a German-Russian-Belarusian project to unearth German documents concerning prisoners of war in former Soviet archives..Ulrike Winkler is a German historian and political scientist specialising in the history of Nazi Germany, the history of German social welfare, and disability history. Her website is www.schmuhl-winkler.de.Wolfgang Wippermann is adjunct Professor for Modern History at Free University, Berlin. His books include Europäischer Faschismus im Vergleich), Totalitarismustheorien and 'Auserwählte Opfer?': Shoah and Porrajmos im Vergleich. Eine Kontroverse.

• IntroductionAlex J. Kay / David StahelPart I. HOLOCAUST1: Hitler's Generals in the East and the HolocaustJohannes Hürter2:Jews Sent into the Occupied Soviet Territories for Labor Deployment, 1942–1943Martin Dean Chapter 3: Were the Jews of North Africa included in the Practical Planning for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"?Dan MichmanPart II. SINTI AND ROMA4: "The definitive solution to the Gypsy question": The Pan-European Genocide of the European RomaWolfgang Wippermann 5: Deadly Odyssey: East Prussian Sinti in Białystok, Brest-Litovsk and Auschwitz-BirkenauMartin Holler Part III. "USELESS EATERS"6: Soviet Prisoners of War in National Socialist Concentration Camps: Current Knowledge and Research DesiderataReinhard Otto / Rolf Keller7: The Murder of Psychiatric Patients by the SS and the Wehrmacht in Poland and the Soviet Union, especially in Mogilev, 1939–1945Ulrike Winkler / Gerrit Hohendorf Part IV. WEHRMACHT8: Reconceiving Criminality in the German Army on the Eastern Front, 1941/1942Alex J. Kay / David Stahel9: Bodily Conquest: Sexual Violence in the Nazi EastWaitman Wade BeornPart V. MEMORIALIZATION10: The Holocaust in the Occupied USSR and its Memorialization in Contemporary RussiaIl'ya Al'tmanChapter 11: The Baltic Movement to Obfuscate the HolocaustDovid Katz Part VI. HISTORY AS COMPARISON12: Comparing Soviet and Nazi Mass CrimesHans-Heinrich NolteSelected BibliographyIndex

"Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe is an excellent work that makes a compelling argument for a more comprehensive study of Third Reich criminality, encompassing more than the Final Solution. It provides a very effective synopsis of the state of play of Holocaust-related research and the important work being done by international scholars in a number of less-explored fields."—Mark Montesclaros, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Gordon Satellite Campus, H-War"A groundbreaking series of articles on German mass killing and violence during World War II"—New Books Network - Genocide"The volume features fascinating case studies that complicate our understanding of Nazi occupational policies or reinforce our growing appreciation of its messiness on the ground."—Katrin Paehler, European History Quarterly"For those who can stomach the descriptions of barbaric acts, Mass Violence in Nazi Europe provides the histories of victims who have been forgotten or erased from well-known narratives and resituates the understanding of Nazi terror as being exercised mainly in Eastern Europe. Kay and Stahel should be commended for taking on such an important volume."—Sanjana Rajagopal - Fordham University, Reading Religion