Eichmann's Men

More 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 Safrians 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.