The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide, Daniel Blatman (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011), x + 561 pp., hardcover, 35.00
In this first comprehensive study of Nazi policy toward concentration camp prisoners during the last year of World War II, Daniel Blatman does not—and cannot—chronicle every evacuation, but he uses diverse, extensive documentation to provide as “wide and representative a range of death marches and e...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 294-297 |
| Review of: | The death marches (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011) (Black, Peter)
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| Summary: | In this first comprehensive study of Nazi policy toward concentration camp prisoners during the last year of World War II, Daniel Blatman does not—and cannot—chronicle every evacuation, but he uses diverse, extensive documentation to provide as “wide and representative a range of death marches and evacuation routes as possible” (p. 11). Using widely diverging mortality data on forced evacuation marches—20% to 80%—Blatman manages difficult source material (eyewitness testimony often thinly supported, if at all, by Nazi documentation) to present perhaps the most accurate account of some evacuations that we will ever have. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs036 |