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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818747403321

Autore

Lower Wendy

Titolo

Nazi empire-building and the Holocaust in Ukraine / / Wendy Lower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

979-88-908789-1-5

0-8078-7691-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/4778

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Ukraine - ZHytomyrska oblast

World War, 1939-1945 - Ukraine - ZHytomyrska oblast

ZHytomyrska oblast (Ukraine) History German occupation, 1941-1944

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Germany Colonies Ukraine ZHytomyrska oblast History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-299) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction; 1 Nazi Colonialism and Ukraine; 2 Military Conquest and Social Upheaval, July–August 1941; 3 The Wehrmacht Administration of Zhytomyr; 4 Making Genocide Possible: The Onset of the Holocaust, July–December 1941; 5 The Zhytomyr General Commissariat, 1942–1943; 6 The General Commissariat's Machinery of Destruction: The Holocaust in the Countryside and Jewish Forced Labor, 1942–1943; 7 Himmler's Hegewald Colony: Nazi Resettlement Experiments and the Volksdeutsche; 8 The Unraveling of Nazi Rule, 1943–1944; 9 Legacies of Nazi Rule

Appendix: German and Ukrainian Spellings of Place NamesNotes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Creating Hitler's German colony in Ukraine 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.