The Einsatzgruppen or Murder Commandos (The Holocaust: Selected Documents, 10) [Hardcover]

John Mendelsohn (Editor), Donald S. Detwiler (Editor), Willard Allen Fletcher (Introduction)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Garland Publishing; 1 edition (July 1, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824048849
• ISBN-13: 978-0824048846
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,272,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Factual data for serious historians, December 31, 2008

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Etienne M. Lorenceau (Washington Paris Dusseldorf) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Einsatzgruppen or Murder Commandos (The Holocaust: Selected Documents, 10) (Hardcover)

It is not very easy to get the documents supporting the analysis that historians use and we are generally forced to deal with analyzed documents within the frame of mind of the authors quoting or reproducing them (partly or entirely)
This book gathered a huge amount of proper documents about the Einsatzgruppen which prefigured the extermination camps of our Jewish brothers and sisters. Even though it is not the purpose of this gathering of documents, these show that, despite their care to flatter the madness of their socialist führer, the nazis were not restricting their prejudice to the Jewish persons they were also massively murdering local communist leaders, intellectuals, artists, partisans and komissars.
The cutting to the ground of an oak tree forest should not hide some less numerous pine species also devastated, just on the account that the oaks were the largest specie being eradicated.
Let's remember everyone, without ignoring anybody's suffering, and witness to the new generations fully, fairly and clearly without prejudice of any sort.

These documents enable us to fully realize the magnitude of the horrors and to report properly ofver this part of the dark side of the 20th century's history.

The trauma has been so big in the Jewish community that their children often no longer really have a clue about the details of the Shoah: they basically know that it happened and that it was horrifying.

Statistics however cannot replace documents and we owe it to the victims to have the courage of reading and searching in these documents stained by blood, flesh, brain, skulls, bones... and shame.