Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941Berghahn Books, 2006 - 242 pages 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. A graduate of the Universities of Huddersfield and Sheffield in the UK, Alex J. Kay obtained his doctorate in Modern and Contemporary History in 2005 from Berlin's Humboldt University, where he has also given courses on early modern British history. Based in Berlin, he is currently working on a new book on anti-Semitism in late Weimar parliamentary politics. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure and Additional Parameters of the Study | 8 |
The Central Planning Organizations | 14 |
the Primacy | 26 |
Longterm Strategic and Economic Gain | 32 |
Food Supplies the Public Mood | 38 |
Laying the Foundations for the Hungerpolitik | 47 |
Planning a Civil Administration | 68 |
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