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Chargement... Les marches de la mort. La dernière étape du génocide nazi, été 1944-printemps 1945par Daniel Blatman
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Étude de la notion de "marches de la mort", qui désigne le massacre d'une population au cours d'un transfert d'un lieu à un autre, notamment durant l'été 1944. L'historien D. Blatman considère ici les marches de la mort non comme une technique de massacre remplissant une fonction stratégique locale, mais comme une séquence à part entière du génocide nazi dotée de caractéristiques particulières. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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What further concerns the author is why the killings continued to the end, even when the war was sometimes literally hours from being over for the men (and occasionally women) who were charged with herding these prisoners somewhere to discharge their responsibility. The theory that Blatman offers is that this is a triumph of 12 years of Nazi enculturation where someone could always be found to pull the trigger when an expendable person had to be terminated. For Blatman the climactic example is the massacre at the small town of Gardelegen, where 1000-plus camp inmates from the "Dora" installation were driven into a barn for a mass killing at the insistence of district Nazi leader Gerhard Thiele; the killers being a motley gang of airborne recruits, militia, police, firemen, Hitler Youth and ad hoc volunteers who bought the argument that in the imminent chaos it was imperative that the potential threat the inmates represented had to be eliminated.
However, as important as this book is, I do have to mark it down a bit on the grounds of some sloppy writing when it comes to military topics. The 7th Waffen-SS Div. "Prinz Eugen" is referred to as "Prinz-Eugen's 7th Division." Messerschmitt is consistently misspelled as "Messerschmidt." There is a reference to the "ZV2 Rocket;" one presumes V2 is what was meant. There are other apparent gaffs, but my favorite is the reference to "electrocuted fences." Was it that hard to find a reader conversant with nuts-and-bolts military history when this book was being edited? ( )