Description |
1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Germans on duty in the East in Warsaw and Minsk -- Prescribed daily activities -- Transgression of norms -- The attitude of the "overlords" -- Violence in everyday life : the German occupiers and the local population |
Summary |
"Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. In this exhaustive study, Stephan Lehnstaedt provides a nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of these men and women, who constituted a surprisingly diverse population--including everyone from SS officers to civil servants, as well as ethnically German city residents--united in its self-conception as a "master race." Even as they acclimated to the daily routines and tedium of life in the East, many Germans engaged in acts of shocking brutality against Poles, Belarusians, and Jews, while social conditions became increasingly conducive to systematic mass murder."-- Provided by publisher |
Notes |
"Published in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Warsaw"--Title page verso |
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"Originally published in German in 2010 as Okkupation im Osten : Besatzeralltag in Warschau und Minsk, 1939-1944"--Title page verso |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index |
Notes |
In English translated from the German |
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Print version record |
Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Poland -- Warsaw
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Belarus -- Minsk
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Germans -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century
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Germans -- Belarus -- Minsk -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Germans
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Social aspects
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SUBJECT |
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104100
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Belarus -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004903
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Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- 20th century
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Minsk (Belarus) -- History -- 20th century
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Subject |
Belarus
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Belarus -- Minsk
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Poland
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Poland -- Warsaw
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781785333248 |
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1785333240 |
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