Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East, Edward B. Westermann (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005), xv + 329 pp., 34.95
Since the Browning-Goldhagen debate scholarly attention has shifted from the Einsatzgruppen to the police battalions that did even more of the mass killing on the Eastern Front.1 Joining the fray, Edward Westermann offers a monograph that should be received as seminal., Westermann forcefully argues...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 500-502 |
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| Summary: | Since the Browning-Goldhagen debate scholarly attention has shifted from the Einsatzgruppen to the police battalions that did even more of the mass killing on the Eastern Front.1 Joining the fray, Edward Westermann offers a monograph that should be received as seminal., Westermann forcefully argues that it was the organizational culture of the uniformed police (Ordnungspolizei) rather than German national culture that prepared them for their role in genocide. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcl023 |