{"product_id":"exploitation-resettlement-mass-murder-9780857451651","title":"Exploitation Resettlement Mass Murder","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eConvinced 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003e[…] reflects impeccable, painstaking research through an impressive array of sources.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCentral \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEuropean History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“… \u003cem\u003eprovides the first substantial comparative analysis of the undertakings of political and economic planners, highlighting the conformity and conflicts between them\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH-Genocide\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“Kay illuminates these issues through clear, insightful analysis, and through a crisp writing style, at times emotive and darkly (yet never inappropriately) humorous. [...] The book is a valuable addition to the literature, pointing the way to further research into such issues as the degree of knowledge which the German civil service as a whole possessed of the plans, and the degree of opposition – or lack thereof – with which they greeted the plans. As an all-too-rare English-language addition to the literature on this particular aspect of Germany’s war in the east, it deserves attention from specialists and students alike.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  War in History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“Based on meticulous research…this book is an excellent and well-written addition to the historiography about Nazi planning for mass murder.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  European History Quarterly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"Kay's painstaking exploration of the planning behind the subsequent 'organized chaos' goes far to enhance our understanding of Nazi intentions vis-à-vis the population of the occupied Soviet Union.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eHolocaust and Genocide Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"This is an original, richly detailed, and on the whole readable work. There is more in it than a short review can cover. Although relatively specialised, it has a clear importance. The true originality of Kay's work lies in reinterpretation as well as in archival evidence, but readers must work this out for themselves.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"... [a] thoroughly researched work ... The foundations of the German Vernichtungskrieg are clearly shown in this book, which corrects and clarifies its chronological development by assembling little known facts into a sound study of Nazi planning…For a long time to come, historians will have no need to focus special interest on these aspects of Nazi history, as they now can be perused in this book.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eH-German\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"Kay solidly identifies the significant parameters of the starvation policy…[He] traces this exploitation, population and starvation policy of mass murder more closely and analyses the actions of those protagonists planning the policy more intensively than analyses hitherto available. It is written in a composed, factual style without unnecessary redundancy and in a very readable way.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eArchiv für Sozialgeschichte\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tOrganized Chaos: the German Occupation, 1941-1944\u003cbr\u003e \tThe State of Existing Scholarship\u003cbr\u003e \tAims of the Study\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Importance of Economic Considerations\u003cbr\u003e \tStructure and Additional Parameters of the Study\u003cbr\u003e \tSource Material\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. The Central Planning Organizations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tThe \u003ci\u003eVierjahresplanbehörde\u003c\/i\u003e: Göring’s Umbrella Organization\u003cbr\u003e \tThe \u003ci\u003eDienststelle Rosenberg\u003c\/i\u003e: the Eastern Experts of the NSDAP\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. The Decision to Invade the Soviet Union: the Primacy of Economics by the End of 1940\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tOverview: a Combination of Long- and Short-term Factors\u003cbr\u003e \tJuly 1940: Military Proposals against Britain’s Last Remaining Potential Ally on the Continent\u003cbr\u003e \tJuly-August: Long-term Strategic and Economic Gain for Germany in the East\u003cbr\u003e \tSeptember-October: Alternatives and Objections to an Eastern Campaign\u003cbr\u003e \tNovember: Before and After Molotov’s Visit to Berlin\u003cbr\u003e \tNovember-December: the Increasing Relevance of Food Supplies and the Public Mood in Germany in View of the Need to Fight a Longer War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Laying the Foundations for the \u003ci\u003eHungerpolitik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tBacke’s Presentations to the Supreme Leadership\u003cbr\u003e \tWorking around Potential Difficulties\u003cbr\u003e \tSoviet Awareness of German Intentions\u003cbr\u003e \tThomas’s Study of Mid-February 1941\u003cbr\u003e \tSetting Up an Economic Organization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Planning a Civil Administration\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tEnvisaging a Civil Administration\u003cbr\u003e \tSelecting an Administrative Chief\u003cbr\u003e \tRosenberg as Administrative Chief: ‘no better man’ for the Job\u003cbr\u003e \tPersonnel and Tasks\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Population Policy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tGermanic Resettlement\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Fate of the Soviet Jews: Pre-invasion Order for Genocide?\u003cbr\u003e \tA Territorial Solution to the ‘Jewish Question’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Radicalizing Plans to Exploit Soviet Resources\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tCalculated Economic Considerations and Nazi Ideology\u003cbr\u003e \t2 May 1941: the Meeting of the \u003ci\u003eStaatssekretäre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tWide-ranging Agreement\u003cbr\u003e \tThe \u003ci\u003eHungerpolitik\u003c\/i\u003e in Writing\u003cbr\u003e \tSoviet Labour: Deployment in the Reich?\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Special Status of the Ukraine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. Expectations and Official Policy on the Eve of the Invasion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tCounting on a Swift Victory\u003cbr\u003e \tEconomic and Agricultural Guidelines\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Standpoint of the Political Planners\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9. Post-invasion Decisions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t16 July 1941: the Conference at FHQ\u003cbr\u003e \tOrdering the Destruction of Leningrad and Moscow\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Concept of a Territorial Ministry in the East\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10. Conclusions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tAppendices\u003cbr\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038904320343,"sku":"9780857451651","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451651.jpg?v=1750941880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exploitation-resettlement-mass-murder-9780857451651","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}