Tag: Poland

Review: Hitlers Willing Executioners – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Posted on by Speesh in Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

Astonishing, disturbing, and riveting...the fruit of phenomenal scholarship and absolute integrity - Simon Schama

Review: Masters of Death. The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust – Richard Rhodes

Posted on by Speesh in Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar.