Purification and destruction. 
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Purification and destruction. The twisted road of Romania’s nation-statism cleansing project (1941-1944)
Purification and destruction. The twisted road of Romania’s nation-statism cleansing project (1941-1944)

Author(s): Mihai Chioveanu
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române
Keywords: antisemitism; ethnic cleansing; war; mass-murder; deportation; emigration; Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: The importance of the Romanian Holocaust resides in the staggering number of victims, the expediency of the killing operations, in its mixture of police, military, and bureaucratic violence, all efficient and organized, and the proximity to the Holocaust in the Ukraine, different from the “classic” Shoah only in terms of framework and method. Moving from here and aiming for clarity, the present study tries to follow the dynamic of the policy that made the Romanian chapter of the Holocaust possible, a development that was neither incidental nor accidental.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 166-183
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English
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