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Front cover: (top row, left to right) USHMMPA WS# 15872, courtesy of the Institute of National Remembrance; USHMMA RG 11.001M (RGVA 500-1-431), courtesy of the Russian State Military Archives; USHMMPA WS# 50646, courtesy of the Institute of National Remembrance; (bottom row, left to right) USHMMPA WS# 18542 courtesy of Yad Vashem; Map 1: The Routes of the Einsatzgruppen in Poland, 1939, p. ix; USHMMPA WS# 15752, courtesy of Gertrude Adams.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Matthäus, Jürgen, 1959-
War, pacification, and mass murder, 1939 : the Einsatzgruppen in Poland / Jürgen Matthäus, Jochen Böhler and Klaus-Michael Mallmann.
pages cm. — (Holocaust sources in context)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4422-3141-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4422-3142-9 (electronic : alk. paper) 1. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Atrocities—Poland. 3. World War, 1939-1945—Atrocities—Poland—Sources. 4. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Poland. 5. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Poland—Sources. 6. Mass murder—Poland—History—20th century. 7. Mass murder—Poland—History—20th century—Sources. I. Böhler, Jochen, 1969- II. Mallmann, Klaus-Michael. III. Title.
D804.3.M374 2014
940.53›1809438—dc23 2013046871
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