EXPLOITATION, RESETTLEMENT, MASS MURDER: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PLANNING FOR GERMAN OCCUPATION POLICY IN THE SOVIET UNION, 1940-1941.

KAY, Alex J.

ISBN 10: 1845451864 / ISBN 13: 9781845451868

Published by Berghahn Books, New York, 2006

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8vo. pp xiii, 242. Original publisher's green boards illustrated in black and white with white lettering at the spine and front cover. ISBN: 1845451864 Very good indeed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EXPLOITATION, RESETTLEMENT, MASS MURDER: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PLANNING FOR GERMAN OCCUPATION POLICY IN THE SOVIET UNION, 1940-1941.
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845451864
• ISBN 13: 9781845451868
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Alex J. Kay graduated from the Universities of Huddersfield and Sheffield in the UK and received his PhD from Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2005. The following year he received the Journal of Contemporary History's George L. Mosse Prize. Since 2014 he has been Senior Academic Project Coordinator at the Institute of Contemporary History Munich–Berlin. Dr Kay is author of The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990 (2016), and co-editor of Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization (2012).