Occupation in the East

The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944

von Stephan Lehnstaedt

320 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Militärgeschichte Besondere Kriege und militärische Feldzüge Zweiter Weltkrieg
• ISBN: 9781785333231
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2016
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books