Hitler's Brudervolk
Subtitle: The Dutch and the Colonization of Occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-1945
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781138803152
Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, occupied territories; World war, 1939-1945, europe; Farmers; Europe, eastern, history
Description: "This is the first academic book on Dutch colonial aspirations and initiatives during WWII. Between the summers of 1941 and 1944, some 5,500 Dutch men and women left their occupied homeland to find employment in the so-called German Occupied Eastern Territories: Belarus, the Baltic countries and parts of Ukraine. This was the area designated for colonization by Germanic people. It was also the stage of the 'Holocaust by Bullets,' a centrally coordinated policy of exploitation and oppression and a ruthless anti-partisan war. This book seeks to answer why the Dutch decided to go there, how their recruitment, transfer and stay were organized, and how they reacted to this scene of genocidal violence. It is a close-up study of racial monomania, of empire-building on the old continent and of collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe"--