The holocaust in the USSR
- This paper sketches the current status of international scholarship on the subject of the Holocaust in the USSR and its place in the wider military conflict of the Second World War. Research on this topic over the last 20 to 30 years has been truly international and the findings of this research cannot be sketched here without pointing to the contributions made by German, American, Russian, Israeli, British and Australian historians. Historians from these countries have made important contributions to our understanding of key questions relating to this subject. These questions address, among other things, pre-invasion orders issued to German units; the radicalisation of German policy, culminating in the root-and-branch extermination of Soviet Jewry; the network of ghettos set up on Soviet territory; the nature of the killing and the methods used to murder these victims; the total death toll of the Holocaust in the USSR; and the relationship between war and extermination, in which genocide can be regarded as an actual strategy ofThis paper sketches the current status of international scholarship on the subject of the Holocaust in the USSR and its place in the wider military conflict of the Second World War. Research on this topic over the last 20 to 30 years has been truly international and the findings of this research cannot be sketched here without pointing to the contributions made by German, American, Russian, Israeli, British and Australian historians. Historians from these countries have made important contributions to our understanding of key questions relating to this subject. These questions address, among other things, pre-invasion orders issued to German units; the radicalisation of German policy, culminating in the root-and-branch extermination of Soviet Jewry; the network of ghettos set up on Soviet territory; the nature of the killing and the methods used to murder these victims; the total death toll of the Holocaust in the USSR; and the relationship between war and extermination, in which genocide can be regarded as an actual strategy of warfare pursued by the German Reich.…
Author details: | Alex James KayORCiDGND |
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URL: | https://www.academia.edu/67857379/The_Holocaust_in_the_USSR_International_Scholarship_and_Research_Findings |
ISBN: | 978-5-8055-0403-8 |
Title of parent work (Russian): | Historia Russica |
Title of parent work (German): | Der Zweite Weltkrieg und der Große Vaterländische Krieg: zum 75. Jahrestag seines Endes. Materialien der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz |
Subtitle (English): | international scholarship and research findings |
Publisher: | Institut für russische Geschichte (RAN) |
Place of publishing: | Moskau |
Editor(s): | Sergej Vladimirovič Žuravlev |
Publication type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/09/28 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Contributing corporation: | Russische Akademie der Wissenschaften (RAN) |
Release date: | 2024/05/31 |
Tag: | Holocaust; Nazi Germany; Russian History; Second World War; Soviet History |
Number of pages: | 10 |
First page: | 155 |
Last Page: | 164 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
DDC classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 94 Geschichte Europas / 940 Geschichte Europas |