Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich, Robert Gerwarth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 336 pp., hardcover, 35.00, paperback, 18.00, e-book available
Except for Shlomo Aronson's study of Reinhard Heydrich's formative years, and Charles Sydnor's more recent essays, biographical analysis of Heydrich has been the preserve of journalists.1 Scholarly depictions shifted over the years, reflecting our evolving perceptions of SS men and Ho...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 138-140 |
| Review of: | Hitler's hangman (New Haven [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2012) (Browder, George C.)
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| Summary: | Except for Shlomo Aronson's study of Reinhard Heydrich's formative years, and Charles Sydnor's more recent essays, biographical analysis of Heydrich has been the preserve of journalists.1 Scholarly depictions shifted over the years, reflecting our evolving perceptions of SS men and Holocaust perpetrators, but never fully fleshed out the man., Benefiting from several generations of distance, the availability of probably every surviving piece of relevant evidence, the scholarly syntheses that emerged from debates over the origins of the Holocaust, and the more recent, sophisticated insights from Taterforschung, Robert Gerwarth has given us what probably will be the definitive study of the man. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct005 |