Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44

What was the role played by local police volunteers in the Holocaust? Using powerful eye-witness descriptions from the towns and villages of Belorussia and Ukraine, Martin Dean's book reveals local policemen as hands-on collaborators of the Nazis. They brutally drove Jewish neighbours from their homes and guarded them closely on the way to their deaths. Some distinguished themselves as ruthless murderers. Outnumbering German police manpower in these areas, the local police were the foot-soldiers of the Holocaust in the East.

Author: M. Dean
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 09/21/1999
Pages: 241
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780333688922

About the Author
MARTIN DEAN is a Research Fellow employed by the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. In 1997 he was awarded the Pearl Resnick Research Fellowship by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in order to complete his research on this book. He was previously Senior Historian to the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London and has been involved in the preparation of and given evidence in several Nazi War Crimes cases in Australia, Great Britain and Germany.