<ul> <li> A nuanced eye-opening portrait of the lives of thousands of Germans for whom Warsaw and Minsk became home following their occupation by the Third Reich.</li> <li> Describes their unity in their self-conception as a master race.</li> <li> Examines how they engaged in acts of shocking brutality against Poles Belarusians and Jews while social conditions became increasingly conducive to systematic mass murder.</li></ul>