What was the role played by local police volunteers in the Holocaust? Using powerful eye-witness descriptions from the towns and villages of Belorussia and Ukraine, Martin Dean's book reveals local policemen as hands-on collaborators of the Nazis. They brutally drove Jewish neighbours from their homes and guarded them closely on the way to their deaths. Some distinguished themselves as ruthless murderers. Outnumbering German police manpower in these areas, the local police were the foot-soldiers of the Holocaust in the East.

MARTIN DEAN is a Research Fellow employed by the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. In 1997 he was awarded the Pearl Resnick Research Fellowship by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in order to complete his research on this book. He was previously Senior Historian to the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London and has been involved in the preparation of and given evidence in several Nazi War Crimes cases in Australia, Great Britain and Germany.

List of Photographs, Maps and Tables Introduction Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations The Soviet Occupation of Eastern Poland, 1939-41 'Operation Barbarossa' Mass Killings in the Autumn of 1941 Local Police Organization, 1941-44 The Ghetto 'Liquidations' of 1942-43 Local Administration and Exploitation, 1941-44 Partisan Warfare, 1942-44 Post-war Fates of Collaborators and Survivors Conclusion: Local Collaboration in the Holocaust Notes Archival Sources Bibliography Maps Appendix A: Demography of the Holocaust in the East Index