Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine

“Lower’s excellent study offers important insights into the nature of National Socialist racial visions and efforts to transform colonial fantasy into reality, as well as into the tragic consequences for the Jewish and non-Jewish populations of Ukraine.” — Holocaust and Genocide Studies

“A carefully nuanced picture of Ukrainian responses to Nazi occupation. . . . Both specialists and general readers seeking new insights into the Holocaust and the history of Nazi occupation in Eastern Europe will benefit greatly from [this] important study.” — Journal of Modern History

“An exemplary local study of . . . the administrative entity encompassing much of the German-occupied Ukraine in World War II.” — Central European History

“An excellent study that bravely attempts to put the Nazi occupation of Ukraine in comparative context, and uses newly opened archives to extend our knowledge of the true horror of the era.” — Europe-Asia Studies

“A very useful contribution to the field of Holocaust studies. . . . An excellent analysis of Nazi empire-building and the Holocaust in the Zhytomyr district.” — English Historical Quarterly

“First-rate.” — Journal of Modern History

“Valuable. . . . An assured, meticulous, and accessible presentation. . . . This is a monograph of considerable value which deserves a wide readership among scholars and students of the Holocaust and genocide.” — Journal of Genocide Research

“Focusing on the Zhytomyr region — where Adolf Hitler’s headquarters were located in summer 1942 — this excellent book reconstructs the regime’s attempt to implement its colonial vision by murdering the Jewish population, enslaving the Ukrainians, and transforming the local ethnic Germans into the new Master Race of this rich agricultural region. Lower has uncovered fascinating documentation.” — Times Literary Supplement

“An exemplary local study. . . . Lower integrates the Ukrainian version of the Shoah as one component — albeit a major one — within this fastidiously researched, thorough, insightful, and flowingly readable examination of the Nazi racial vision as implemented in one locale of the occupied East.” — Central European History Review

“[Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine] offers an excellent regional account of the Holocaust, carefully unpacking the interaction between higher orders and lower level initiatives in the unfolding of genocide.” — American Historical Review