Soviet Union, the Holocaust, and Auschwitz
TitelThe Soviet Union, the Holocaust, and Auschwitz
Auteur
Call number940.53180947/0004
Objectnummer08969c
Plaats van uitgavePittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
UitgeverUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
Jaar van uitgave
2014
Pagina'spp29-50
MateriaalArtikel
ReeksPitt series in Russian and East European studies
Kritika historical studies
ISBN9780822962939
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust in the East' pp29-50
Beschrijving
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
