Indirect Perpetrators: The Prosecution of Informers in Germany, 1945–1965, Andrew Szanajda (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010), ix + 349 pp., cloth, 83.99, e-versions available
In the postwar period, informers who furthered Nazi policies by denouncing others for statements or actions inimical to the understood objectives of the Nazi leadership have been considered indirect perpetrators. Using Adelheid L. Rüter and C.F. Rüter's Justiz und NS-Verbrechen (1971) and Frenc...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 146-148 |
| Review of: | Indirect perpetrators (Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Lexington Books, 2010) (Meier, David A.)
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| Summary: | In the postwar period, informers who furthered Nazi policies by denouncing others for statements or actions inimical to the understood objectives of the Nazi leadership have been considered indirect perpetrators. Using Adelheid L. Rüter and C.F. Rüter's Justiz und NS-Verbrechen (1971) and French and German archival sources, Andrew Szanajda conveys the extreme frustration inherent in prosecuting those who collaborated by denouncing neighbors and acquaintances. Like Michael Burleigh in his The Third Reich (2000), Szanajda interprets the Nazi era as a period of fundamental lawlessness, with the Gestapo figuring as the dominant instrument of terror in the Nazi police state. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs021 |