Collaboration in the Holocaust

1. Front Matter

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2. The Soviet Occupation of Eastern Poland, 1939–41

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   Pages 1-16

3. ‘Operation Barbarossa’

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   Pages 17-40

4. Mass Killings in the Autumn of 1941

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   Pages 41-59

5. Local Police Organization, 1941–44

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6. The Ghetto ‘Liquidations’ of 1942–43

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7. Local Administration and Exploitation, 1941–44

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8. Partisan Warfare, 1942–44

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9. Post-War Fates of Collaborators and Survivors

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10. Conclusion: Local Collaboration in the Holocaust

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11. Back Matter

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What was the role played by local police volunteers in the Holocaust? Using powerful eye-witness descriptions from the towns and villages of Belorussia and Ukraine, Martin Dean's new book reveals local policemen as hands-on collaborators of the Nazis. They brutally drove Jewish neighbors from their homes and guarded them closely on the way to their deaths. Some distinguished themselves as ruthless murders. Outnumbering German police manpower in these areas, the local police were the foot-soldiers of the Holocaust in the east.

• Europe
• Ghetto
• Holocaust
• Judaism
• Poland
• Russia
• Soviet Union
• Ukraine
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

• Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA

  Martin Dean

Martin Dean is Research Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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