Okkupation im Osten: Besatzeralltag in Warschau und Minsk 1939–1944, Stephan Lehnstaedt (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 2010), 381 pp., cloth, €54.80
What was it like to be part of the German occupation of the Nazi East? How did German occupiers think of themselves and their task? Why did they participate in the murder of so many native inhabitants? In this intriguing study, Stephan Lehnstaedt describes the views and circumstances of roughly 85,0...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-136 |
| Review of: | Okkupation im Osten (München : Oldenbourg, 2010) (Epstein, Catherine)
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| Summary: | What was it like to be part of the German occupation of the Nazi East? How did German occupiers think of themselves and their task? Why did they participate in the murder of so many native inhabitants? In this intriguing study, Stephan Lehnstaedt describes the views and circumstances of roughly 85,000 Reich German and Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) occupation personnel in Warsaw and Minsk. These numbers include approximately 30,000 administrative and security officials in Warsaw (along with a few private individuals), 10,000 similar officials in Minsk, 40,000 Wehrmacht soldiers in Warsaw, and 5,000 soldiers in Minsk (p. 33). Lehnstaedt reconstructs the world in which the German occupiers worked, played, and fantasized. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs016 |