Holocaust in Eastern Europe

<p>Waitman Wade Beorn's <i>The Holocaust in Eastern Europe </i>provides a comprehensive history of the Holocaust in the region that was the central location of the event itself while including material often overlooked in general Holocaust history texts. <p/> First introducing Jewish life as it was lived before the Nazis in Eastern Europe the book chronologically surveys the development of Nazi policies in the area over the period from 1939 to 1945. This book provides an overview of both the German imagination and obsession with the East and its impact on the Nazi genocidal project there. It also covers the important period of Soviet occupation and its effects on the unfolding of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. This text also treats in detail other themes such as ghettoization the Final Solution rescue collaboration resistance and many others. Throughout Beorn includes detailed examples of the similarities and differences of the nature of the Holocaust in various regions in the words of perpetrators witnesses collaborators and victims/survivors. <p/> Beorn also illustrates the complex nature of the Holocaust by discussing the difficult subjects of collaboration sexual violence the use of slave labour treatment of Soviet POWs profiteering and others within a larger narrative framework. He also explores key topics like Jewish resistance Jewish councils memory and explanations for perpetration collaboration and rescue. The book includes images and maps to orient the reader to the topic area. <p/> This important book explains the brutality and complexity of the Holocaust in the East for all students of the Holocaust and 20th-century Eastern European history.</p>