Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010.

xxviii, 451 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliography (p. 419-436) and index.

Contents : The national ideal -- One ideal or many? : a short history -- Colonization and resettlement : early Romanian experience -- Into the Nazis' fold -- Romanian eugenics : racism without a "race" -- Modern science and nationalism : two Romanian cases -- The population exchange with Bulgaria : "an opportunity missed"? -- Model province -- The new regime -- The project : "Model province" -- Cleansing the terrain, I : mass murder -- Cleansing the terrain, II : deportation -- The cost of Utopia -- What did they know? What did they do? -- Between the dream and reality -- Romanianization -- Deporting Roma -- Stopping deportations and changing course -- "Voluntary" population exchange with Bulgaria -- Getting ready for the world that never came : planning population exchanges -- Letting them out, and keeping them out.

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.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania.

Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Romania.

Population transfers -- History -- 20th century.

Genocide -- Romania -- History -- 20th century.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Romania.

Romania -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.

Racism -- Political aspects -- Romania -- History -- 20th century.

Nationalism -- Romania -- History -- 20th century.

Romania -- Politics and government -- 1914-1944.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Romania.

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