LEADER 00000nim a22004935a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125070014.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 170326s2017 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781541420373 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1541420373 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781541420373_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT11853090 037 11853090|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 00 940.53/18|221 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Rhodes, Richard,|d1937- 245 10 Masters of death :|bthe SS-Einsatzgruppen and the invention of the Holocaust|h[Hoopla electronic resource] / |cRichard Rhodes. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2017. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 08 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Neil Hellegers. 520 In Masters of Death, Richard 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. 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. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 610 20 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. |bSchutzstaffel.|bSicherheitsdienst. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)|zPoland. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)|zSoviet Union. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xSecret service|zGermany. 651 0 Germany|xHistory|y1933-1945. 700 1 Hellegers, Neil. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 11853090?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781541420373_180.jpeg