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Synopsis
Fifty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: how could a state-sponsored terror that cost the lives of millions of men, women, and children, persecuted as Jews or Gypsies, happen? Now available in a new English translation, Hans Safrian?s classic work on Adolf Eichmann and his Nazi henchmen chronicles the escalation of Nazi anti-Semitic policies during World War II to the chilling ?final solution? of genocide. This book examines a central group of National Socialist perpetrators who expelled German, Austrian, and Czech Jews from their homelands and deported them to the ghettos, concentration camps, and extermination centers of occupied Eastern Europe. Safrian reconstructs the ?careers? of Eichmann and his men in connection with the implementation of racial policies, particularly the gradual marginalization of their victims and the escalation from stigmatization, divestment, and segregation to deportation, forced labor, and, finally, mass murder.