1st Edition

German-occupied Europe in the Second World War

Edited By Raffael Scheck, Fabien Théofilakis, Julia Torrie Copyright 2019
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    Inspired by recent works on Nazi empire, this book provides a framework to guide occupation research with a broad comparative angle focusing on human interactions. Overcoming national compartmentalization, it examines Nazi occupations with attention to relations between occupiers and local populations and differences among occupation regimes.



    This is a timely book which engages in historical and current conversations on European nationalisms and the rise of right-wing populisms.

    INTRODUCTION by the Editors





    FIRST PART: PRECURSORS AND CONTINUITIES



    Chapter 1: Dangerous Duality: Experiencing and Remembering Civil-Military Conflict during Germany’s Occupation of Poland, 1914-1918, by Andrew Kless



    Chapter 2: The Lessons of War and Occupation: The Career of Hans Nagel, 1914-1945, by Chad Denton



    Chapter 3: Radical Reordering along Old Lines: National Socialist Population Policy, Citizenship, and Military Service in Occupied Alsace, 1940-1945, by Devlin M. Schofield





    SECOND PART: CONCEPTS OF OCCUPATION



    Chapter 4: Genocide as Organizing Principle in Raphael Lemkin’s Analysis of Nazi-Occupied Europe, by Raffael Scheck



    Chapter 5: From a Nazi Imperialism to a Fascist Imperialism: Transnational Nationalisms and the Creation of a "New Europe", by Eric Roubinek



    Chapter 6: From Principles to Pragmatism: The SS in Occupied France, 1940-1944, by Thomas Laub





    THIRD PART: ECONOMIC MATTERS



    Chapter 7: German Occupation of Italy, 1943-45: Conflicting Authorities and Contrasting Strategies in the Management of Resources and Supplies, by Alessandro Salvador and Jacopo Calussi



    Chapter 8: The Gau Westmark as Colonial Outpost: Rethinking Economic, Military, and Racial Policies in Nazi-Annexed Moselle, by Elizabeth Vlossak





    FOURTH PART: RACE, GENDER, AND THE INTERACTIONS OF OCCUPIERS AND OCCUPIED PEOPLE



    Chapter 9: Women of the Reich: German Military Auxiliaries and the Occupation of Europe, by Julia Torrie



    Chapter 10: Romance, Marriage, and the Lebensborn Program: Gendering German Expectations and Reality in Occupied Norway, by Caroline Nielsen



    Chapter 11: The Volksdeutsche of Eastern Europe as Nazi Collaborators during World War II, by Christoph Schiessl



    Chapter 12: Nazi Germanization Policy in Occupied Europe: An Overview, by Bradley J. Nichols





    AFTERWORD by Shelley Baranowski





    Index

    Biography

    Raffael M. Scheck is Audrey Wade Hittinger Katz and Sheldon Toby Katz Professor of History at Colby College, Maine, USA





    Fabien Théofilakis is Associate Professor of History at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France





    Julia Torrie is Professor of History at St. Thomas University, Canada

    "Limitations of space prevent me from giving adequate attention to all of the contributions to this volume, but suffice it to say that this thin tome packs a lot of punch. It would serve well as a source of reading assignments in a graduate seminar and it reflects well on a scholarly field that continues to generate new information and important new perspectives on a period of modern history that was as ghastly as it was transformative." - Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown University, USA