Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine Lower Wendy
Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine Lower Wendy On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly…
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Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine Lower Wendy
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. 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. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler's SS and police, Hermann Goring's economic plunderers, and a host of other satraps.
She argues that Nazi actions in the region evolved from imperial Lower puts names and faces to local perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries, as well as resisters.