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The involvement of the so-called ""auxiliary police"" and the ""self-government"" (i.e. local residents who were entrusted with the management of the affairs of the municipality) in the murder of the Jewish population and the looting of Jewish property during the German occupation of the USSR is still poorly understood. This groundbreaking book concentrates on the Ukrainian-Russian-Belarusian borderland and analyzes the diverse motivations of local collaborators.

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This is first-rate scholarship grounded in empirical research. Radchenko has carried out prodigious archival research that balances out a victim, perpetrator, and bystander's perspective. I'm not aware of any comparable work within comparative genocide studies that would go into such a level of detail and complexity in painting a collective psychological portrayal of perpetrators. A solid grasp of existing scholarship, in-depth research, and good analytical skills propel the author as an authority in the field. --Anton Weiss-Wendt, Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo

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Yuriy Radchenko, who holds a PhD in History, is a graduate of Vasily Karazin Kharkiv National University. Vasyl Karazin Radchenko serves as the director of the Center for Research on Interethnic Relations in Eastern Europe in Kharkiv. He has had the privilege of interning at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and New Europe College in Bucharest. His articles have been published in a number of respected journals, amongst them Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yad Vashem Studies, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, FORUM, Eastern European Holocaust Studies, Pamiec i Sprawiedliwosc, [Modern Ukraine], Euxeinos: Culture and Governance in the Black Sea Region, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, The Ideology and Politics Journal, New Eastern Europe, Moreshet: Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism, and Ab Imperio. The foreword authors: Kai Struve is an associate professor at the Institute of History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. John-Paul Himka is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

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