Old Nazis, ordinary men, and new killers: synthetic and divergent histories of perpetrators.

Examines the actions and motivations of perpetrators by surveying scholarship on individuals, groups, organisations and institutions responsible for or complicit in mass murder. It highlights the diversity of the actors, both German and non-German, involved in genocide. It also demonstrations the way in which methodological approaches have affected scholarly interpretations concerning the motivation and implementation of the “Final Solution”.