商品簡介
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.
"[...] reflects impeccable, painstaking research through an impressive array of sources." - Central European History
"... provides the first substantial comparative analysis of the undertakings of political and economic planners, highlighting the conformity and conflicts between them." - H-Genocide
"Based on meticulous research... this book is an excellent and well-written addition to the historiography about Nazi planning for mass murder." - European History Quarterly
作者簡介
Alex J. Kay graduated from the Universities of Huddersfield and Sheffield in the UK and obtained his doctorate in Modern and Contemporary History in 2005 from Berlin1s Humboldt University. Dr Kay1s articles have been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Contemporary History, Transit Europaische Revue, the Zeitschrift fur Weltgeschichte and War in History. In 2006 he received the Journal of Contemporary History1s George L. Mosse Prize. He is contributing co-editor of a collection of essays on the radicalization of German policy in the occupied Soviet territories during 1941, which will be published in 2012 by the University of Rochester Press.
