Self-Portrait of a Holocaust Perpetrator : The Wartime Correspondence of a German Policeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schnell, Felix.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

An exploration of the thoughts and experiences of a low-level Holocaust perpetrator through analysis of his wartime correspondence with his wife.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Individual Holocaust perpetrators in the historiography

The letters

The correspondents and their social environment

The communication

Reading soldiers' letters

Chapter 2: The war of annihilation and Police Battalion 309

Preparations

Police Battalion 309

Bialystok

The first stage of the Holocaust

On the ground in Belorussia

Partisan and anti-partisan warfare

Practices of pacification and documentation

Deeper into Russia

Bryansk, Winter 1941/42

Trubchevsk and Radutino

Chapter 3: Describing others and 'the Other'

The taught image of the East

From a traveller in arms' perspective

Viewing through the lens of the camera

Müller's Russia

People - soldiers

People - civilians

Land and nature

Müller's representations in the social context

Chapter 4: Presenting the Self

Meta

Mathias Müller

Political views

Destiny

Self-representation - passive

Self-representation - active

Military masculinity

The needy, unheroic Self

Rules of the correspondence game

Chapter 5: Presenting practices

Speaking about mass murder

The sniper narrative

Emotional emergency

Methods of justification - 'Lemberg experiences'

Müller's 'Lemberg experiences'

Pipo

Pact of silence

Partisans

Conclusion

Appendix: Selected Letters from Mathias Müller

In the East, 23 June 1941

In the East, 27 June 1941

In the East, 1 July 1941

In the East, 5 July 1941

In the East, 2 August 19411

In the East, 5 August 1941

In the East, 13 August 1941

In the East, 24 August 1941

In the East, 30 August 1941

In the East, 27 September 1941

In the East, 2 October 1941

In the East, 13 October 1941.

In the East, 22 October 1941

In the East, 13 November 1941

In the East, 28 December 1941

In the East, 5 January 1942

In the East, 22 February 1942

Glossary

Bibliography

Archival sources

Printed sources

Secondary literature

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Appendix

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781350603660