{"product_id":"the-kings-and-the-pawns-collaboration-in-byelorussia-during-world-war-ii-9781782380474","title":"The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tFor many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement. This movement, a reaction to the brutal occupation policies, was very strong indeed. Still, as the author shows, there existed in Byelorussia a whole web of local institutions and organizations which, some willingly, others with reservations, participated in the implementation of various aspects of occupation policies. The very sensitivity of the topic of collaboration has prevented researchers from approaching it for many years, not least because in the former Soviet territories ideological considerations have played an important role in preserving the topic’s “untouchable” status. Focusing on the attitude of German authorities toward the Byelorussians, marked by their anti-Slavic and particularly anti-Byelorussian prejudices on the one hand and the motives of Byelorussian collaborators on the other, the author clearly shows that notwithstanding the postwar trend to marginalize the phenomenon of collaboration or to silence it altogether, the local collaboration in Byelorussia was clearly visible and pervaded all spheres of life under the occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Rein provides an enormous quantity of detail making the book a slow read and a specialist’s study. It is, however, extremely valuable for an understanding of a less known Eastern European area of German occupation and has much to tell us about ethnic relations in the former Soviet Union and the Holocaust as well.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e ·  European History Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eRein presents the phenomenon of collaboration in Byelorussia in all its facets. His results are even more astonishing in that he could not use any archives or libraries in Byelorussia but instead relied on a broad basis of sources from archives in Germany, the USA and Israel. Without doubt, Rein’s study presents a new standard work on the history of national-socialist occupation of Byelorussia.\u003c\/em\u003e”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  H-Soz-u-Kult\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eRein’s thorough study of collaboration in Byelorussia is an important contribution to studies on collaboration, German occupation, and our understanding of the war Nazi Germany unleashed against the Soviet Union, but as the author himself explains, this is far from the final word on the subject... Rein’s text reinforces the fact that compared to Germany, which has opened its archives and continues to critically examine the Nazi period, the former states of the Soviet Union that suffered under occupation have a long road ahead of them.\u003c\/em\u003e”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSlavic Military Studies Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Collaboration in Occupied Europe: Theoretical Overview\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDefining the Collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tComparative Overview\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Background\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Nazi Attitude toward Collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Collaboration and Collaborators\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEconomic Collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPolice Collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCollaboration in the Persecution of Jews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMilitary Collaboration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Historical Background\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGeneral Information\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tByelorussia between Two World Wars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t“Reunification” of Byelorussia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Outbreak of the War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. German Policies in Byelorussia (1941–1944)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Eastern Policies of the Third Reich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHitler’s Vision of the East\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Ostministerium and the Eastern Policy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Wehrmacht and the East German\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tVisions of Byelorussia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGermans and Byelorussian Nationalists on the Eve of the Nazi Invasion into the USSR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Nazi Regime in Byelorussia: From Invasion to Occupation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLocal Self-Administration and Occupation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAgricultural Policies of the German Occupier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLabor Policies under German Occupation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Outcome and Shift in Occupation Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Byelorussian “State-Building”: Political Collaboration in Byelorussia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t“Local Self-Administration”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Byelorussian Popular Self-Aid Organization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Union of Byelorussian Youth (SBM)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Byelorussian Central Council\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. The Cross and the Hooked Cross: the Church’s Collaboration in Occupied Byelorussia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBackground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRosenberg’s Influence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFrom Theory to Practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Ideological Collaboration in Byelorussia: The “Legal” Press as a Propagandist Tool of the Nazis’ New Europe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Collaboration in the Politics of Repression\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCollaboration in the Holocaust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Extermination Process in Byelorussia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. Military-Police Collaboration in Byelorussia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Beginnings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLocal Auxiliary Security Forces: Strength, Structure and the German Attitude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDogmatism vs. Reality: Byelorussian \"Self-Defense\" and the \"Home Guard\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStrange Allies: Armija Krajowa and Germans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t\"Untermenschen\" in SS Uniforms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSummary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix:\u003c\/strong\u003e SS and Military Ranks\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex of Places\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex of Persons\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042209530199,"sku":"9781782380474","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782380474.jpg?v=1750953454","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-kings-and-the-pawns-collaboration-in-byelorussia-during-world-war-ii-9781782380474","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}