Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in BelorussiaAnika Walke
In the last pages of her outstanding book, Anika Walke poses several unsettling questions. “Are mass shootings less specific, too similar to other genocides in history? Do they too closely resemble the mode of warfare known from other invasions…? Can they not be included in a portrayal of a historic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 118-120 |
| Review of: | Pioneers and partisans (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015) (Kerenji, Emil)
Pioneers and partisans (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015) (Kerenji, Emil) |
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| Summary: | In the last pages of her outstanding book, Anika Walke poses several unsettling questions. “Are mass shootings less specific, too similar to other genocides in history? Do they too closely resemble the mode of warfare known from other invasions…? Can they not be included in a portrayal of a historical caesura, which is constituted by the industrial killing of people?” (p. 230). Indeed, Nazi genocide in the occupied Soviet territories did not resemble the industrial murder in the killing centers in occupied Poland, taking place far from Auschwitz, the metonymic capital of the Holocaust. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz014 |