Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-357) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1. Summer 1939-Summer 1941. 1. Killing the Sick in the German Reich and Poland -- 2. Decapitation of Polish Society -- Part 2. Summer 1941-Spring 1942. 3. Hollocaust by Bullets -- 4. Murder of Pschiatric Patients and Roma in the Soviet Union -- 5. Starvation Policy against the Soviet Union Urban Population -- 6. Extermination of Captive Red Army Soldiers -- 7. Preventive Terror and Reprisals against Civilians -- Part 3. Spring 1942-Spring 1945. 8. Holocaust by Gas : Operation Reinhardt -- 9. The Gates of Hell : Auschwitz -- 10. Genocide of the European Roma -- 11. Decentralised 'Ethanasia' in the German Reich -- 12. Suppression of the Warsaw Uprising -- Conclusion -- Appendix. 1. Victims of Nazi Mass-killing Campaigns -- Appendix 2. Comparative Ranks for 1942.
Summary:
Nazi Germany killed approximately thirteen million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis? pan-European racial purification program. Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can also be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time, Kay considers Europe's Jews alongside all other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers, the Soviet urban population, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals, the mentally and physically disabled, the European Roma, and the Polish intelligentsia. He shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany's ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. This groundbreaking work combines the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror.
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