The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War was central to Nazi plans for territorial expansion and genocidal demographic revolution. To create 'living space', Nazi Germany pursued two policies. The first was the systematic murder of millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other groups that the Nazis found undesirable on racial, religious, ethnic, ideological, hereditary, or behavioral grounds. It also pursued a parallel, albeit smaller, program to mobilize supposedly Germanic residents of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union - so-called Volksdeutsche or ethnic Germans - as the vanguard of German expansion. This study recovers the intersection of these two projects in Transnistria, a portion of southern Ukraine that, because of its numerous Volksdeutsche communities, became an epicenter of both Nazi Volksdeutsche policy and the Holocaust in conquered Soviet territory, ultimately asking why local residents, whom German authorities identified as Volksdeutsche, participated in the Holocaust with apparent enthusiasm.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781107061231
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209288010
Product Key Features
Author
Eric C. Steinhart
Publication Name
The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
520g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Eric C. Steinhart
Series Title
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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