The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen trial, 1945-1958
Subtitle: atrocity, law, and history
By: Hilary Earl.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521456081
Subjects: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. -- Schutzstaffel. -- Sicherheitsdienst; Einsatzgruppen Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1947-1948; War crime trials -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Soviet Union; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland; Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
Description: "Based on extensive archival research, this book offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial, and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen -- the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern Front ... In addition to describing the legal proceedings that held these men accountable, this book also examines recent historiographical trends and perpetrator paradigms and expounds on such contested issues as the timing and genesis of the Final Solution, the perpetrators' route to crime, and their motivations for killing"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.