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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST

Volume 4

THE POLICIES OF GENOCIDE

THE POLICIES OF GENOCIDE

Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany

Edited by
GERHARD HIRSCHFELD

With an Introduction by
WOLFGANG J. MOMMSEN

First published in 1986

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1986 German Historical Institute

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THE POLICIES OF GENOCIDE

Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany

Edited by

Gerhard Hirschfeld

With an Introduction by

Wolfgang J. Mommsen

German Historical Institute, 1986

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The Policies of genocide: Jews and Soviet prisoners of war in Nazi Germany.

1. World War, 19391945 Prisoners and prisons, German I. Hirschfeld, Gerhard

940.531503924 D805.G3

ISBN 0049430459

ISBN 0049430467 Pbk

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Main entry under title:

The Policies of genocide.

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Holocaust, Jewish (19391945) Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. World War, 19391945 Prisoners and prisons, German Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Prisoners of war Soviet Union Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Prisoners of war Germany Addresses, essays, lectures. 5. Germany. Heer History World War, 19391945 Addresses, essays, lectures.

I. Hirschfeld, Gerhard, 1946

D810.J4P618 1986 940.547243 8531567

ISBN 0049430459 (alk. paper)

Set in 10 on 11 point Bembo by Computape (Pickering) Ltd and printed in Great Britain by Billing and Son Ltd, London and Worcester

Contents

CHRISTIAN STREIT

JRGEN FRSTER

FALK PINGEL

LOTHAR KETTENACKER

HANS MOMMSEN

Jrgen Frster, D. Phil., is with the Militrgeschichtliches Forschungsamt in Freiburg/Breisgau. He has published widely on the history of the Second World War (for example, Stalingrad. Risse im Bndnis 1942/43, 1975) and is one of the authors of Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion (1983), vol. 4 of Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg.

Gerhard Hirschfeld, D. Phil., is a Fellow of the German Historical Institute in London. He is the author of Fremdherrschaft und Kollaboration. Die Niederlande unter deutscher Besatzung 19401945 (1984) and has edited (among others) Exile in Great Britain. Refugees from Hitlers Germany (1984).

Lothar Kettenacker, D. Phil., is a Fellow and Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in London. He has published (among others) Nationalsozialistische Volkstumspolitik im Elsa (1973) and is editor (with Gerhard Hirschfeld) of The Fhrer-State: Myth and Reality (1981). A study on British planning for post-war Germany 19391945 will appear shortly.

Hans Mommsen, D. Phil., is Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr-University Bochum. His numerous publications on the history of the Third Reich include Beamtentum im Dritten Reich (1966) and The German Resistance to Hitler (1970). A major study about Das Ende des deutschen Wegs, 19181945, vol. 8 of Propylen Geschichte Deutschlands, is forthcoming.

Falk Pingel, D. Phil., former lecturer at the University of Bielefeld, is now with the Georg-Eckert-Institut fr internationale Schulbuchforschung in Brunswick. His publications include Hftlinge unter SS-Herrschaft. Widerstand, Selbstbehauptung und Vernichtung im Konzentrationslager (1978).

Christian Streit, D. Phil., is a teacher at a Grammar School in Mannheim. He is the author of the much-acclaimed book Keine Kameraden. Die Wehrmacht und die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen, 19411945 (1978).

WOLFGANG J. MOMMSEN

Over the past few years the German Historical Institute in London has arranged a series of seminars devoted to the policies of genocide and the conduct of the war in Eastern Europe after 1941, including the desperate plight of Russian prisoners of war in German hands. The following essays derive from papers given on these occasions. They deal with one of the darkest chapters of German history the systematic killing of 5 million Jews and the death of more than 3 million Soviet prisoners of war in German captivity. Even now, forty years after these frightful events were made public to the world, it is extremely difficult to understand how atrocities of such magnitude could ever have occurred, even given a totalitarian regime such as the National Socialist dictatorship and the extreme conditions of the Second World War.

It is still difficult to discuss these issues with the objectivity and impartiality of scholarly research. But approaching these events with intellectual honesty is the only way to confront them and to help prevent anything similar ever happening again. Contrary to some currents of public opinion in the Federal Republic of Germany and elsewhere, which would sometimes prefer to pass over them in silence, we believe that the facts must be faced squarely. On the other hand, it is necessary to go beyond moral indignation and investigate the objective causes that made human beings, who were otherwise quite ordinary, not to say civilized, actively take part in these policies. Historians must, therefore, not only look into the ideological and political issues, but also take into account the social, socio-psychological and institutional factors that made this genocide possible.

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