Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers

by Christopher R. Browning

• ISBN13: 9780521772990
• ISBN10: 0521772990
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers focuses on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. How did Nazi Jewish policy evolve during the first years of the war? When did the Nazi regime cross the historic watershed from population expulsion and decimation ("ethnic cleansing") to total and systematic extermination? How did Nazi authorities attempt to reconcile policies of expulsion and extermination with the wartime urge to exploit Jewish labor? How were Jewish workers impacted? What role did local authorities play in shaping Nazi policy? What more can we learn about the mindset and behavior of the local perpetrators? Using new evidence, this book attempts to shed light on these important questions. Christopher R. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Path to Genocide (Cambridge University Press 1992) and Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, which received the Jewish National Book Award.

Author Biography

Christopher Browning is Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Map of Poland	xii
From ``Ethnic Cleansing'' to Genocide to the ``Final Solution'': The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939--1941	1	(25)
Nazi Policy: Decisions for the Final Solution	26	(32)
Jewish Workers in Poland: Self-Maintenance, Exploitation, Destruction	58	(31)
Jewish Workers and Survivor Memories: The Case of the Starachowice Labor Camp	89	(27)
German Killers: Orders from Above, Initiative from Below, and the Scope of Local Autonomy -- The Case of Brest--Litovsk	116	(27)
German Killers: Behavior and Motivation in the Light of New Evidence	143	(27)
Postscript	170	(7)
Index	177