Anti-Jewish violence in Western Ukraine, summer 1941: varied histories and explanations

The "Final Solution" was a Nazi -imposed and sinisterly managed policy of genocide. Its most violent aspects occurred in Eastern Europe and involved the indigenous populations. Events that comprise the Holocaust represent an intersection of German history and the local and regional histories of Europe. The collective, sustained killing of an entire group by another is very much a social phenomenon. In Jedwabne, Poland in 1941 "half the population of this small European town murdered the other half - some 1,600 men, women and children"