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Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
Waitman Wade Beorn
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Description for Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
Hardback. On October 10, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. This atrocity was the work of footsoldiers in a regular German army unit, acting on its own initiative. This book paints a searing portrait of the Wehrmacht's descent into ever more intimate participation in genocide. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
On October 10, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. While Nazi death squads routinely carried out mass executions on the Eastern Front, this particular atrocity was not the work of the SS but was committed by a regular German army unit acting on its own initiative. Marching into Darkness is a bone-chilling exposé of the ordinary footsoldiers who participated in the Final Solution on a daily basis.
Although scholars have exploded the myth that the Wehrmacht played no significant part in the Holocaust, a concrete picture of its involvement ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
276
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
623g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674725508
SKU
V9780674725508
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About Waitman Wade Beorn
Waitman Wade Beorn is Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond.
Reviews for Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
With a level of detail that is chilling to the bone, Beorn demonstrates that during the first phase of the war with the Soviet Union, a time when Germans were euphoric about their results on the front, every single Wehrmacht unit in Belarus contained a core group of men who could be counted on to murder Jews. Marching into Darkness ... Read more