Daniel Blatman
Author of The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
About the Author
Daniel Blatman is a senior lecturer at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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The Holocaust History and Memory: Essays Presented in Honor of Israel Gutman — Contributor — 1 copy
The Holocaust: The Unique and the Universal: Essays Presented in Honor of Yehuda Bauer — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Other names
- Blaṭman, Daniyʾel (Hébreu)
דניאל בלטמן (Hébreu) - Birthdate
- 1953-01-31
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Israel
- Country (for map)
- Israël
- Birthplace
- Tel Aviv, Israël
- Education
- Université hébraïque de Jérusalem (Doctorat, Histoire contemporaine, Thèse "The Jewish Labor Bund in Poland and its Agencies in the USA and in Great Britain in the Years 19 39 - 19 49", 19 92)
- Occupations
- Professeur (Histoire)
Historien (Histoire contemporaine, Holocauste) - Relationships
- Gutman, Israël (Directeur de thèse)
- Organizations
- Université hébraïque de Jérusalem (Professeur, Histoire, 19 97)
Danziger high school, Kiryat Shmona (Professeur, Histoire, 19 81 | 19 92)
Université de Georgetown, Washington, Etats-Unis (Professeur invité)
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales , Paris, France (Professeur invité)
Université jagellonne de Cracovie, Pologne (Professeur invité)
Institut d'études politiques, Paris (Professeur invité, 20 13 | 20 14)
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- ISBNs
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What further concerns the author is why the killings continued to the end, even when the war was sometimes literally hours from being over for the men (and occasionally women) who were charged with herding these prisoners somewhere to discharge their responsibility. The theory that Blatman offers is that this is a triumph of 12 years of Nazi enculturation where someone could always be found to pull the trigger when an expendable person had to be terminated. For Blatman the climactic example is the massacre at the small town of Gardelegen, where 1000-plus camp inmates from the "Dora" installation were driven into a barn for a mass killing at the insistence of district Nazi leader Gerhard Thiele; the killers being a motley gang of airborne recruits, militia, police, firemen, Hitler Youth and ad hoc volunteers who bought the argument that in the imminent chaos it was imperative that the potential threat the inmates represented had to be eliminated.
However, as important as this book is, I do have to mark it down a bit on the grounds of some sloppy writing when it comes to military topics. The 7th Waffen-SS Div. "Prinz Eugen" is referred to as "Prinz-Eugen's 7th Division." Messerschmitt is consistently misspelled as "Messerschmidt." There is a reference to the "ZV2 Rocket;" one presumes V2 is what was meant. There are other apparent gaffs, but my favorite is the reference to "electrocuted fences." Was it that hard to find a reader conversant with nuts-and-bolts military history when this book was being edited?… (more)