Revealing for the first time official documents, held in the Moscow archives of the Soviet forced labour system, this book assesses previous western and Russian studies of the Gulag and describes its origins. The bulk of the book concentrates on the labour camps during World War…
It was Arthur Greiser, the Nazi governor of the Warthegau, who proposed to Himmler to apply the euthanasia program and gas wagons to the solution of the "Jewish question" in his province; in mid-1941 he obtained Hitler's permission to kill the Jews of Warthegau. On Greiser's ini…
Exposes the history, organization, and operations of the first extermination camp established by the Nazis and shows how Chełmno broke the psychological barrier for establishing the single-purpose death camps that became the template for Hitler's "Final Solution."
