{"product_id":"9780375708220","title":"Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eRhodes, Richard\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8\/12\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMasters of Death,\u003c\/i\u003e Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s   role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler   to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the   agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million   men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing   pits, as at Babi Yar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These massive crimes have been generally overlooked or underestimated   by Holocaust historians, who have focused on the gas chambers. In this painstaking   account, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes profiles the eastern campaign’s   architects as well as its “ordinary” soldiers and policemen, and helps us understand   how such men were conditioned to carry out mass murder. Marshaling a vast array of   documents and the testimony of perpetrators and survivors, this book is an essential   contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and World War II.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42957676675327,"sku":"9780375708220","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780375708220_s600x595.jpg?v=1775599228","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780375708220","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}