Occupation in the East : The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944
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| Title: | Occupation in the East : The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944 |
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| Description: | Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. In this exhaustive study, Stephan Lehnstaedt provides a nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of these men and women, who constituted a surprisingly diverse population—including everyone from SS officers to civil servants, as well as ethnically German city residents—united in its self-conception as a “master race.” Even as they acclimated to the daily routines and tedium of life in the East, many Germans engaged in acts of shocking brutality against Poles, Belarusians, and Jews, while social conditions became increasingly conducive to systematic mass murder. |
| Authors: | Stephan Lehnstaedt |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Germans--Belarus--Minsk--History--20th century, Germans--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century, World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Belarus--Minsk, World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Poland--Warsaw |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Social History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. In this exhaustive study, Stephan Lehnstaedt provides a nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of these men and women, who constituted a surprisingly diverse population—including everyone from SS officers to civil servants, as well as ethnically German city residents—united in its self-conception as a “master race.” Even as they acclimated to the daily routines and tedium of life in the East, many Germans engaged in acts of shocking brutality against Poles, Belarusians, and Jews, while social conditions became increasingly conducive to systematic mass murder. |
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| ISBN: | 9781785333231 9781789204988 9781785333248 9781807585044 |
