Beschreibung
A comparative study of the anti-Semitic excesses carried out by the local populations of Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas in the early months of German occupation. The work looks into the incidents, the perpetrators, the German authorities, and the role these incidents played in the early stage of the «final solution».
Autorenportrait
Tomasz Szarota is Professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and serves on the Advisory Board of the Museum of the Second World War in Gda?sk. His special interest comprises WWII, Nazi-occupied Poland, the resistance movement, and life in Warsaw and other European cities under the German occupation.
Inhalt
Contents: Anti-Semitic riots – Pogroms – Occupied Warsaw – Occupied Paris – Occupied Netherlands – Occupied Antwerp – Occupied Kaunas/Kovno – Anti-Semitic organizations – The Holocaust – Shoah – The «final solution» – Anti-Semitic publications –
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The «Lietukis» garage yard massacre.
