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EMPIRE OF DESTRUCTION i ii EMPIRE OF DESTRUCTION A History of Nazi Mass Killing ALEX J. KAY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN AND LONDON iii Copyright © 2021 Alex J. Kay All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press) without written permission from the publishers. For information about this and other Yale University Press publications, please contact: U.S. Office: [email protected] yalebooks.com Europe Office: [email protected] yalebooks.co.uk Set in Minion Pro by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd Printed in Great Britain by TJ Books, Padstow, Cornwall Library of Congress Control Number: 2021936886 e-ISBN 978-0-300-26253-1 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 iv For Valentina and Cyrus v vi Everybody keeps on shouting ‘Where was God?’ I kept on saying ‘Where was man?’ Josef Perl, Holocaust survivor1 And even if some proof should remain and some of you survive, people will say that the events you describe are too monstrous to be believed. Primo Levi, quoting an SS guard at Auschwitz2 vii viii CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi List of Abbreviations xiv Note on Place Names and Conventions xvi Acknowledgements xviii Map of Europe in 1941 xx Introduction 1 PART I Summer 1939–Summer 1941 1 Killing the Sick in the German Reich and Poland 19 2 Decapitation of Polish Society 41 PART II Summer 1941–Spring 1942 3 Holocaust by Bullets 57 4 Murder of Psychiatric Patients and Roma in the 99 Soviet Union 5 Starvation Policy against the Soviet Urban 116 Population 6 Extermination of Captive Red Army Soldiers 146 7 Preventive Terror and Reprisals against Civilians 169 PART III Spring 1942–Spring 1945 8 Holocaust by Gas: Operation Reinhardt 195 9 The Gates of Hell: Auschwitz 213 10 Genocide of the European Roma 239 ix
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