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Auteur(s) : Kay, Alex J. (1979-....)
Titre(s) : The making of an SS killer [Texte imprimé] : the life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990 / Alex J. Kay, Institute of Contemporary History, Berlin
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-241 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Comprend : 1. 'I went to school with quite a number of Jewish co-religionists and never knew
hatred for Jews' : childhood, youth and early adulthood, 1905-32 ; 2. 'In terms
of his character he is irreprochable in every respect' : Nazi party membership and
career in the SS Security Service, 1932-9 ; 3. 'Pity that scoundrel didn't perish'
: brother's imprisonment and career stagnation, 1939-41 ; 4. 'So, we've finished
off the first Jews' : SS-Einsatzkommando 9 and deployment in the East, June-July 1941
; 5. 'In Vileyka, the Jews had to be liquidated in their entirety' : genocide of Belarusian
Jewry, July-October 1941 ; 6. 'Was it thinkable that I, a jurist and a soldier, would
do such a thing?" : suspension from the Reich Security Main Office and reinstatement
until the war's end, 1941-5 ; 7. 'My son, who has not yet returned home from the
war' : post-war submergence and reintegration into West German society, 1945-59 ;
8. 'A trial of this magnitude has never previously taken place before a German court'
: arrest and trial, February 1959-June 1962 ; 9. 'A limited, lower middle class,
status-and-promotion seeking philistine' : imprisonment and early release, 1962-75
; 10. 'A chess game of egos' : Wundkanal and aftermath, 1975-90.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-234) and index
"In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers
the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsible as the first head of
SS Task Force 9, a mobile killing squad, for the murder of more than 18,000 Soviet
Jews - men, women and children - on the Eastern Front. He reveals how Filbert, following
the political imprisonment of his older brother, set out to prove his own ideological
allegiance by displaying particular radicalism in implementing the orders issued by
Hitler, Himmler and Heydrich. He also examines Filbert's post-war experiences, first
in hiding and then being captured, tried and sentenced to life imprisonment. Released
early, Filbert went on to feature in a controversial film in the lead role of an SS
mass murderer. The book provides compelling new insights into the mindset and motivations
of the men, like Filbert, who rose through the ranks of the Nazi regime"
Sujet(s) : Filbert, Alfred (1905-1990)
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Atrocités -- Russie
Allemagne (1871-1945). Waffen-Schutzstaffel
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107146341. - ISBN 1107146348. - ISBN 9781316601426. - ISBN 1316601420 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452208720
Notice n° :
FRBNF45220872
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