The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History

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	The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History Hilary Earl Cambridge University Press, 2009 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Based on extensive archival research, this book offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial, and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the eastern front. Sent to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, four units of Einsatzgruppen along with reinforcements, murdered approximately one million Soviet civilians in open air shootings and in gas vans and, in 1947, twenty-four leaders of these units were indicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes for their part in the murders. In addition to a describing the legal proceedings, this book also examines recent historiographical trends and perpetrator paradigms and expounds on such contested issues as the timing and genesis of the Final Solution, the perpetrators' route to crime and their motivation for killing, as well as discussing the tensions between law and history.

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Excellent In-Depth Look Into Official Mass Murder

The author, Hilary Earl, has written a masterful tome on the banality of evil. The book is incredibly well-researched with lots of excellent tables and charts which help explain how these leaders of Einsatzgruppen units during WW2 came to be mass murderers under color of authority.

The scariest thing about these men is that, when you look at them up close and read their biographies, you realize that they are for the most part ordinary people, not monsters. Just your average guy-next-door with a family who goes to church and also happens to execute innocent thousands of civilians for a living.

The book could have used a selection of photos of the Einsatzgruppen at 'work', of which there are many existing. These atrocity photos might have made it crystal-clear what these men were really about.

I highly recommend this well-written, absolutely riveting, well-researched and mesmerizing book.

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