The Nuremberg Ss-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History

by Hilary Earl

Book Overview

Based on extensive archival research, this book offers a historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern front. Sent to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, four units of the Einsatzgruppen, along with reinforcements, murdered approximately 1 million Soviet civilians in open air shootings and in gas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521178681
• ISBN13: 9780521178686
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"