@article{446051,
      recid = {446051},
      author = {Blatman, Daniel,},
      title = {The death marches the final phase of Nazi genocide /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 561 p., [10] p. of plates) :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {"Originally published as Les Marches de la mort"--T.p.  verso.},
      abstract = {From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich,  about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on  death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter.  They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS  guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of  civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns  and villages. Even in the bloody annals of the Nazi regime,  this final death blow was unique in character and scope. In  this first comprehensive attempt to answer the questions  raised by this final murderous rampage, the author draws on  the testimonies of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders.  Hunting through archives throughout the world, Daniel  Blatman sets out to explainto the extent that is  possiblethe effort invested by mankinds most lethal regime  in liquidating the remnants of the enemies of the Aryan  race before it abandoned the stage of history. What were  the characteristics of this last Nazi genocide? How was it  linked to the earlier stages, the slaughter of millions in  concentration camps? How did the prevailing chaos help to  create the conditions that made the final murderous rampage  possible? In its exploration of a topic nearly neglected in  the current history of the Shoah, this book offers unusual  insight into the workings, and the unraveling, of the Nazi  regime. It combines micro-historical accounts of  representative massacres with an overall analysis of the  collapse of the Third Reich, helping us to understand a  seemingly inexplicable chapter in history. - Publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/446051},
}