Hans SafrianCambridge University Press, 6/3/2010EAN 9780521617260, ISBN10: 052161726XPaperback, 328 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cmLanguage: EnglishMore than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: how could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women, and children, persecuted as Jews or Gypsies, happen? Now available in English, Hans Safrian's path-breaking work on Adolf Eichmann and his Nazi helpers chronicles the escalation of Nazi anti-Semitic policies beginning in 1933 and during World War II to the 'final solution'. This book examines a central group of National Socialist perpetrators who expelled German, Austrian, and Czech Jews from their homelands and deported massive numbers of them to the ghettos, concentration camps, and killing centers of occupied Eastern Europe. Safrian reconstructs the 'careers' of Eichmann and his men in connection with the implementation of racial policies, particularly the gradual marginalization of their victims and the escalation from stigmatization, divestment, and segregation to deportation, forced labor, and, finally, mass murder.Introduction1. Eichmann and the development of the Vienna model2. An unsuccessful startthe deportations to Nisko on the River San3. The development and initial activities of Referat IV D 44. 1941from expulsion to mass murder5. 1941controversies over the deportations to the occupied areas of the Soviet Union6. 1942the establishment of the genocide program7. 1942collaboration and deportations8. The destruction of the Jewish community of Salonikathe cooperation of the SS and Wehrmacht9. 1943–4manhunts in France and Greece10. 1944–5manhunts in Hungary and Slovakia11. The post-war era.
