“Aktion 1005”—Spurenbeseitigung von NS-Massenverbrechen 1942–1945: Eine “geheime Reichssache” im Spannungsfeld von Kriegswende und Propaganda Andrej Angrick

In this massive two-volume work on “Aktion 1005,” Andrej Angrick writes a sweeping history of the Holocaust that provides a new lens on Nazi atrocities. The Nazis, it turns out, found it much easier to murder Jews (and other victims) than to remove their remains. By shifting the emphasis from killin...

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Main Author: Epstein, Catherine (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2020
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-104
Review of:"Aktion 1005" - Spurenbeseitigung von NS-Massenverbrechen 1942-1945 (Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, 2018) (Epstein, Catherine)
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Summary:In this massive two-volume work on “Aktion 1005,” Andrej Angrick writes a sweeping history of the Holocaust that provides a new lens on Nazi atrocities. The Nazis, it turns out, found it much easier to murder Jews (and other victims) than to remove their remains. By shifting the emphasis from killing to the removal of corpses, Angrick highlights the technical challenges facing the Nazi murderers; the growing urgency to remove all traces of genocide; the grizzly crimes involved in the impossible task of masking mass murder; and the victims’ desperate need to bear witness to the regime’s atrocities., As the Nazi murder machine revved up in 1941–1942, corpses were tossed into mass graves and sometimes covered with lime.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa019