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Review of the hardback: '… illuminating … Earl has undertaken original and extensive archival research and safely takes her place with other major scholars working on Nazism's historical and legal legacy. … convincing and … devastating.' Edinburgh Law Review
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Based on extensive archival research, this book offers a historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern front. Sent to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, four units of the Einsatzgruppen, along with reinforcements, murdered approximately 1 million Soviet civilians in open air shootings and in gas vans and, in 1947, twenty-four leaders of these units were indicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes for their part in the murders. In addition to describing the legal proceedings that held these men accountable, this book also examines historiographical trends and perpetrator paradigms and expounds on such contested issues as the timing and genesis of the Final Solution, the perpetrators' route to crime and their motivation for killing, as well as discussing the tensions between law and history.
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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Excellent In-Depth Look Into Official Mass Murder
11 Nov 2009
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The author, Hilary Earl, has written a masterful tome on the banality of evil. The book is incredibly well-researched with lots of excellent tables and charts which help explain how these leaders of Einsatzgruppen units during WW2 came to be mass murderers under color of authority.
The scariest thing about these men is that, when you look at them up close and read their biographies, you realize that they are for the most part ordinary people, not monsters. Just your average guy-next-door with a family who goes to church and also happens to execute innocent thousands of civilians for a living.
The book could have used a selection of photos of the Einsatzgruppen at 'work', of which there are many existing. These atrocity photos might have made it crystal-clear what these men were really about.
I highly recommend this well-written, absolutely riveting, well-researched and mesmerizing book.
The scariest thing about these men is that, when you look at them up close and read their biographies, you realize that they are for the most part ordinary people, not monsters. Just your average guy-next-door with a family who goes to church and also happens to execute innocent thousands of civilians for a living.
The book could have used a selection of photos of the Einsatzgruppen at 'work', of which there are many existing. These atrocity photos might have made it crystal-clear what these men were really about.
I highly recommend this well-written, absolutely riveting, well-researched and mesmerizing book.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Sort of disappointing
10 Dec 2010
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As far as I know, this book is the only detailed description in print of the trial of the leaders of the Einsatzgruppen who murdered around a million Soviet noncombatants during World War II. For this reason--that there is a lack of competing histories--this book is worth a read. And it certainly is the work of a competent historian who apparently did an awful lot of archival work.
Nevertheless, as my rating signifies, my feelings about the book are mixed. It was the author's dissertation at the University of Toronto, and it betrays some evidence of greenness on her part. There are lots of errors in punctuation and word choice, and it seems as if Cambridge University Press didn't have anyone proofread it carefully (and they certainly didn't put much care into the production of the paperback edition, which looks like a cheap, faded-out photocopy in places). At times, I felt that the exposition was lacking in seriousness and sophistication and that the author was insufficiently detached, too opinionated, bordering on glib. Other times, there was too much assertion and not enough presentation of facts that would allow the reader to draw the same conclusions him/herself. I wish there had been more analysis of how these mass murders could possibly have come about and less attention paid to the colorful life of the presiding judge. His escapades may make for a good yarn, but that's not the sort of thing most people buy books like this for.
Nevertheless, as my rating signifies, my feelings about the book are mixed. It was the author's dissertation at the University of Toronto, and it betrays some evidence of greenness on her part. There are lots of errors in punctuation and word choice, and it seems as if Cambridge University Press didn't have anyone proofread it carefully (and they certainly didn't put much care into the production of the paperback edition, which looks like a cheap, faded-out photocopy in places). At times, I felt that the exposition was lacking in seriousness and sophistication and that the author was insufficiently detached, too opinionated, bordering on glib. Other times, there was too much assertion and not enough presentation of facts that would allow the reader to draw the same conclusions him/herself. I wish there had been more analysis of how these mass murders could possibly have come about and less attention paid to the colorful life of the presiding judge. His escapades may make for a good yarn, but that's not the sort of thing most people buy books like this for.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A Book Worth Reading
23 Dec 2011
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This is an excellent work of non-fiction. I will not go into a long expansive review of the book. The book is very detailed and well researched. I will say, as a previous review stated, that this is the only work that covers the trial of these individuals and their crimes in such exhaustive detail. Of particular fascination was the Group Leader that asked to be relieved of duty. If you are interested in the concept of the duality of a person's nature (i.e., understanding how people could commit these murders and still be considered human), than this is a book worth reading.
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