Soviet Union, the Holocaust, and Auschwitz
TitreThe Soviet Union, the Holocaust, and Auschwitz
Auteur
Call number940.53180947/0004
N° d'objet08969c
Lieu de publicationPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Année de publication
2014
Paginationpp29-50
MatérielArticle
SériePitt series in Russian and East European studies
Kritika historical studies
ISBN9780822962939
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust in the East' pp29-50
Description
During 1941 and 1942 between 700,000 and 3,000,000 Jews were killed in the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union. The Nazis saw a particular urgency in rapidly exterminating the Jews whom they regarded as the mainstay of the Bolshevik regime. Despite the enormous loss of Jewish lives, most Soviet accounts of the Great Patriotic War ( the eastern front of World War II) did not treat the Holocaust as a uniquely Jewish phenomenon
