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100 1 $aWestermann, Edward B.
245 10 $aHitler's police battalions :$benforcing racial war in the East /$cEdward B. Westermann ; foreword by Dennis Showalter.
260 $aLawrence :$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$cc2005.
300 $axv, 329 p., [14] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aModern war studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index.
505 0 $a1 Taking charge of the police -- 2. Building a marital identity -- 3. Instilling the SS Ethic -- 4. Baptism of fire -- 5. Crusade in the east. -- 6. The face of occupation
520 1 $a"Along with the SS and Gestapo, the Ordnungspolizei, or Uniformed Police, played a central role in Nazi genocide that until now has been generally neglected by historians of the war." "To uncover the story of how the German national police were fashioned into a corps of political soldiers, Westermann reveals initiatives pursued before the war by Heinrich Himmler and Kurt Daluege to create a culture within the existing police forces that fostered anti-Semitism and anti-Communism as institutional norms. Challenging prevailing interpretations of German culture, Westermann draws on extensive archival research - including the testimony of former policemen - to illuminate this transformation and the callous organizational culture that emerged." "Throughout, Westermann stresses the importance of ideological indoctrination and organizational initiatives within specific groups. It was the organizational culture of the Uniformed Police, he maintains, and not German culture in general that led these men to commit genocide. Hitler's Police Battalions provides the most complete and comprehensive study to date of this neglected branch of Himmler's SS and Police empire, and adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Holocaust and the war on the Eastern front."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.$bEinsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities$zPoland.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities$zSoviet Union.
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