Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi-Allied Romania

by Joseph J. Brinley and Vladimir Solonari

Purifying the Nation is a provocative exploration of the Holocaust in World War II Romania. Vladimir Solonari argues that the persecution of Jews and Roma by the Romanian government was not a response to pressure from the country's ally, Nazi Germany, but rather stemmed from the vision of an ethnically pure Romania. Through a rigorous, archive-based analysis of the country's interwar political and intellectual climate and policies and practices during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894085
• ISBN13: 9780801894084
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 451 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"