The Killing Compartments. On Jan Grabowski’s book Cover Image

Przedziały śmierci. O książce Jana Grabowskiego
The Killing Compartments. On Jan Grabowski’s book

Author(s): Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Subject(s): Review, Military history, Other Language Literature, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: genocide; compartmentalisation; facilitators; the Blue Police and the Holocaust;

Summary/Abstract: In the context of Abram de Swaan’s research on mass murder, summed up in his monograph The Killing Compartments. The Mentality of Mass Murder (2015), this article discusses the subject matter of the ‘blue’ police in light of Jan Grabowski’s book Na posterunku. Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów [On duty. Participation of the Polish ‘Blue’ and Criminal Police in the Holocaust] (2020).

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 685-699
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish