Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine

Name: Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
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By Wendy Lower

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On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the “jewel” in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler’s SS and police, Hermann Göring’s economic plunderers, and a host of other satraps. Focusing on the Zhytomyr region and weaving together official German wartime records, diaries, memoirs, and personal interviews, Wendy Lower provides the most complete assessment available of German colonization and the Holocaust in Ukraine.
Midlevel “managers,” Lower demonstrates, played major roles in mass murder, and locals willingly participated in violence and theft. Lower puts names and faces to local perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries, as well as resisters. She argues that Nazi actions in the region evolved from imperial arrogance and ambition; hatred of Jews, Slavs, and Communists; careerism and pragmatism; greed and fear. In her analysis of the murderous implementation of Nazi “race” and population policy in Zhytomyr, Lower shifts scholarly attention from Germany itself to the eastern outposts of the Reich, where the regime truly revealed its core beliefs, aims, and practices.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 328
Release Date:: 2007-08-27
Publication Date:: 2007-08-27
Publisher:: The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 08078586330807829609
ISBN13:: 9780807858639
Weight:: 560 g
Height:: 15.6 cm
Width:: 23.4 cm
Thickness:: 2 cm

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