In Masters of Death; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight; for the first time; to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in 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. These massive crimes have been generally overlooked or underestimated by Holocaust historians; who have focused on the gas chambers. In this painstaking account; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes profiles the eastern campaign’s architects as well as its “ordinary†soldiers and policemen; and helps us understand how such men were conditioned to carry out mass murder. Marshaling a vast array of documents and the testimony of perpetrators and survivors; this book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and World War II.
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