Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and RadicalizationNazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both an all-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal practices -- became most obvious. Germany's military aggression and overtly ideological conduct, culminating in genocide against Soviet Jewry and the decimation of the Soviet population through planned starvation and brutal antipartisan policies, distinguished Operation Barbarossa-the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union-from all previous military campaigns in modern European history. This collection of essays, written by young scholars of seven different nationalities, provides readers with the most current interpretations of Germany's military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941. With its breadth and its thematic focus on total war, genocide, and radicalization, this volume fills a considerable gap in English-language literature on Germany's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and the radicalization of World War II during this critical year. Alex J. Kay is the author of Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941 and is an independent contractor for the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences. Jeff Rutherford is assistant professor of history at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he teaches modern European history. David Stahel is the author of Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East and Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East. |
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Contents
The German Command and | 19 |
Urban Warfare Doctrine on the Eastern Front | 45 |
The Army | 73 |
The Purpose of the Russian Campaign Is the Decimation | 101 |
The Exploitation of Foreign Territories and | 155 |
Axis Collaboration Operation Barbarossa and | 186 |
The Radicalization of AntiJewish Policies | 220 |
German Occupiers | 240 |
Did Otto Ohlendorf | 267 |
The Development of German Policy in Occupied France | 289 |
Total War Genocide and Radicalization | 314 |
List of Contributors | 341 |
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| Title | Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization Rochester studies in Central Europe, ISSN 1528-4808 |
| Editors | Alex J. Kay, Jeff Rutherford, David Stahel |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University Rochester Press, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1580464076, 9781580464079 |
| Length | 359 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Germany |
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