Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder

Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84545-186-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

Reihe: War and Genocide

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kay, Alex J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Organized Chaos: the German Occupation, 1941-1944

The State of Existing Scholarship

Aims of the Study

The Importance of Economic Considerations

Structure and Additional Parameters of the Study

Source Material

Chapter 2. The Central Planning Organizations

The Vierjahresplanbehörde: Göring’s Umbrella Organization

The Dienststelle Rosenberg: the Eastern Experts of the NSDAP

Chapter 3. The Decision to Invade the Soviet Union: the Primacy of Economics by the End of 1940

Overview: a Combination of Long- and Short-term Factors

July 1940: Military Proposals against Britain’s Last Remaining Potential Ally on the Continent

July-August: Long-term Strategic and Economic Gain for Germany in the East

September-October: Alternatives and Objections to an Eastern Campaign

November: Before and After Molotov’s Visit to Berlin

November-December: the Increasing Relevance of Food Supplies and the Public Mood in Germany in View of the Need to Fight a Longer War

Chapter 4. Laying the Foundations for the Hungerpolitik

Backe’s Presentations to the Supreme Leadership

Working around Potential Difficulties

Soviet Awareness of German Intentions

Thomas’s Study of Mid-February 1941

Setting Up an Economic Organization

Chapter 5. Planning a Civil Administration

Envisaging a Civil Administration

Selecting an Administrative Chief

Rosenberg as Administrative Chief: ‘no better man’ for the Job

Personnel and Tasks

Chapter 6. Population Policy

Germanic Resettlement

The Fate of the Soviet Jews: Pre-invasion Order for Genocide?

A Territorial Solution to the ‘Jewish Question’

Chapter 7. Radicalizing Plans to Exploit Soviet Resources

Calculated Economic Considerations and Nazi Ideology

2 May 1941: the Meeting of the Staatssekretäre

Wide-ranging Agreement

The Hungerpolitik in Writing

Soviet Labour: Deployment in the Reich?

The Special Status of the Ukraine

Chapter 8. Expectations and Official Policy on the Eve of the Invasion

Counting on a Swift Victory

Economic and Agricultural Guidelines

The Standpoint of the Political Planners

Chapter 9. Post-invasion Decisions

16 July 1941: the Conference at FHQ

Ordering the Destruction of Leningrad and Moscow

The Concept of a Territorial Ministry in the East

Chapter 10. Conclusions

Appendices

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kay, Alex J.
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).

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).