Purifying the Nation
Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi—Allied Romania
Purifying the Nation is a provocative exploration of the Holocaust in World War II Romania. Vladimir Solonari argues that the persecution of Jews and Roma by the Romanian government was not a response to pressure from the country's ally, Nazi Germany, but rather stemmed from the vision of an ethnically pure Romania. Through a rigorous, archive—based analysis of the country's interwar political and intellectual climate and policies and practices during its alliance with the Nazis, Solonari sheds valuable new light on the genocidal activities of one of Hitler's European satellites.
"This is a major study that will influence how all of us think about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe." -- Norman Naimark, Stanford University
"Solonari's monograph is a book that any scholar would be proud to have written, and I expect it to have a serious impact both in Holocaust studies and in the history of modern East Central Europe." -- John—Paul Himka, University of Alberta
"Purifying the Nation is an exceptionally significant contribution to one of the least explored and most tragic chapters of the 20th century." -- Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland
"This book is genuinely monumental... the most historically sensitive and conceptually savvy account of the Holocaust in Romania yet to be produced." -- Charles King, Georgetown University
Vladimir Solonari is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2001.Related Books:
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