Eichmann's Men

by Hans Safrian , Translated by Ute Stargardt

• ISBN13: 9780521617260
• ISBN10: 052161726X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 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.

Author Biography

Hans Safrian lectures in history at the Institute fr Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna. He was also a Pearl Resnick Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Research Team Leader for the Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland - Second World War, and a research historian for the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria. He is the author of numerous works on World War II and Nazi war crimes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Eichmann and the Development of the "Vienna Model"	p. 14
The Unsuccessful Beginning: The Deportations to Nisko on the River San	p. 46
The Development and Initial Activities of Referat IV D 4	p. 59
From Expulsion to Mass Murder: 1941	p. 72
Controversies over the Deportations to the Occupied Areas of the Soviet Union: 1941	p. 91
The Development of the Genocide Program: 1942	p. 112
Collaboration and Deportations: 1942	p. 134
The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Salonika: The Cooperation of the SS and the Wehrmacht	p. 150
Manhunts in France and Greece: 1943-1944	p. 173
Manhunts in Hungary and Slovakia: 1944-1945	p. 194
The Postwar Era	p. 211
Notes	p. 225
References	p. 295
Index	p. 311
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