The 'Final Solution' in Riga Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944 [Hardcover]

Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during the Second World War. Drawing upon a broad array of sources that includes previously inaccessible Soviet archives, postwar criminal investigations, and trial records of alleged perpetrators, and the records of the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, the authors have produced an in-depth study of the Riga ghetto that never loses sight of the Latvian capitals place within the overall design of Nazi policy and the all-of-Europe dimension of the Holocaust.
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NOMINATED FOR THE RAPHAEL LEMKIN AWARD BY THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GENOCIDE

With its &[over thousand] detailed and expansive footnotes drawing on twenty-four different archive collections in eight countries and three continents and an enormous secondary literature, this is one of the best researched regional studies of the Holocaust ever to appear. It is helped by the fact that the authors are also always so cognizant of what was happening elsewhere in Europe at the same time and thus frequently draw out the relationship between seemingly haphazard local decisions and trends across Europe&Indeed, the way in which the book makes sense of complex institutional behavior is at times breathtaking&The precision in the detail and the scope of the contextualization make this one of the more important works to appear on the Holocaust in recent years. English Historical Review

Translated flawlessly from German into English by Ray Brandon, [this] readable and engaging study eminently meets the serieshigh standards of scholarship. Its 17-page bibliography lists old classics as well as the most recent publicatlS°