Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine-纳粹帝国大厦与乌克兰大屠杀

作者：Wendy Lower

书名：Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine《纳粹帝国大厦与乌克兰大屠杀》

中文简介：乌克兰大屠杀发生在二战期间纳粹德国占领的前苏联乌克兰。1941年至1944年间，生活在乌克兰苏维埃社会主义共和国的100多万犹太人被杀害，这是“东方总计划”和“最终解决方案”灭绝政策的一部分。据耶鲁大学历史学家蒂莫西 · D · 斯奈德（Timothy D. Snyder）说，“大屠杀与歼灭战和1941年的战争有着不可分割的联系，也与征服乌克兰的企图有着不可分割的联系。”

英文简介：On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler's SS and police, Hermann Goring's economic plunderers, and a host of other satraps. Focusing on the Zhytomyr region and weaving together official German wartime records, diaries, memoirs, and personal interviews, Wendy Lower provides the most complete assessment available of German colonization and the Holocaust in Ukraine.

Midlevel "managers," Lower demonstrates, played major roles in mass murder, and locals willingly participated in violence and theft. Lower puts names and faces to local perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries, as well as resisters. She argues that Nazi actions in the region evolved from imperial arrogance and ambition; hatred of Jews, Slavs, and Communists; careerism and pragmatism; greed and fear. In her analysis of the murderous implementation of Nazi "race" and population policy in Zhytomyr, Lower shifts scholarly attention from Germany itself to the eastern outposts of the Reich, where the regime truly revealed its core beliefs, aims, and practices.