Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder
Subtitle: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941
Series: Studies on War and Genocide
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: September 30, 2006
Place of publication: New York/Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781845451868
Subjects: Battles & campaigns; European history: Second World War; Military tactics; Second World War, 1939-1945; History: World; History; History - Military / War; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Germany; Europe - Germany; Military - World War II; 1917-1945; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; German occupation, 1941-1944; Soviet Union; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: The power struggles and overlapping functions inherent in the National Socialist administrative and governmental 'system' can have no better example than that of 'the East' - an all-inclusive reference to the lands east of Germany, initially in particular Poland, but from 1941 onwards almost exclusively used to allude to the seemingly endless reaches of the Soviet Union, stretching from Germany's eastern border, beyond the Ural Mountains to the Orient.
Description: "Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political, economic and racial reorganization of the occupied Soviet territories and bring about the deaths of 'x million people' through a conscious policy of starvation. This study traces the step-by-step development of high-level planning for the occupation policy in the Soviet territories over a twelve-month period and establishes the extent to which the various political and economic plans were compatible."--Publisher's website.