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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Edward B. Westermann. Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East. Foreword by Dennis Showalter. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xv, 329. $34.95.

Over the past two decades German historians have increasingly come to realize that the National Socialist regime enjoyed a good bit of popular support. This recognition has led to a search for the sources of that popularity, as well as a better understanding of the process by which Nazi racial policy was implemented. According genuine popularity to the government, after all, would suggest that the murderous Nazi policies of World War II were carried through not by cowed, submissive automatons but by more or less willing subordinates who at a minimum believed they were acting in the best interests of the state. These investigations have revealed both the obvious (ample involvement on the part of various branches of the SS, such as the Security Police and Gestapo), and the controversial (greater complicity on the part of the Wehrmacht than previously understood).

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