Masters Theses
Date of Award
5-2005
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Major
History
Major Professor
Vejas Liulevicius
Committee Members
John Bohstedt, Denise Phillips
Abstract
This thesis considers one of the most widely debated topics in modern European history: why the men of the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads following the Wehrmacht as they advanced into Russia) participated in massacres of supposedly “undesirable” people. Although this topic has been discussed for many years, to date there has been no definitive consensus formed. This thesis examines issues of the official SS publication Das Schwarze Korps and records from the Nuremburg Trials (contained in the Winfield B. Hale papers in the University of Tennessee’s Special Collections Library) in order to bring both new evidence and a new opinion into this debate.
Recommended Citation
Dunham, Elizabeth Grace, "Ideology and Genocide on the Eastern Front. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2005.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/4563