Ideology and the Rationality of Domination: Nazi Germanization Policies in Poland

by Gerhard Wolf, Wayne Yung (Translator)

Overview

Students and scholars of the Polish occupation, the Holocaust, and Nazism will find new analysis of German imperialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in this important book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253048097
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	03/12/2021
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Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	20 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gerhard Wolf is senior lecturer in history at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The German Quest for Polish Land

2. War: Projecting the "Lebensraum" Dystopia onto Poland

3. Consolidating Power: Reinforcing the German Occupation Regime through Population Policy

4. "Lebensraum": Population Policy in the Tug of War Between Racial Hubris and the Rational Demands of Power

5. Labor Deployment: Population Policy as a Tool of Exploitation and Assimilation

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index of persons

Index

What People are Saying About This

Donald Bloxham

Gerhard Wolf's excellent study illustrates how much National Socialist "ethnic politics" was shaped by traditional notions of belonging and exclusion. In the implementation of Nazi ideology, Wolf shows that politics could be both practical and principled. Here it becomes clear how a dynamic understanding of borders, which separated those who belonged from others who did not, could become a decisive instrument for the consolidation of German rule. This rule was legitimized and shaped by what we now call false nationalization.

Geoff Eley

The annexed areas in Poland became the scene of many machinations in which experts of the "race state" and representative of a traditional Germanization policy confronted each other. Gerhard Wolf pursues the tortuous and inconsistent implementation of National Socialist politics down to the local level, thereby giving much needed clarity to the complex debate about the significant of ideology of National Socialist rule.

Nicholas Stargardt

Gerhard Wolf's real contribution is to pick apart the highly conflictual and polycratic process by which Nazi policies were formed, tracking both the long-running turf war between the Reich Interior Ministry and the SS Race and Resettlement Office in Berlin. Well-researched, clear, convincing, with real intellectual verve.

Editorial Reviews

"The annexed areas in Poland became the scene of many machinations in which experts of the "race state" and representative of a traditional Germanization policy confronted each other. Gerhard Wolf pursues the tortuous and inconsistent implementation of National Socialist politics down to the local level, thereby giving much needed clarity to the complex debate about the significant of ideology of National Socialist rule."—Geoff Eley, author of Nazism as Fascism

"Gerhard Wolf's excellent study illustrates how much National Socialist "ethnic politics" was shaped by traditional notions of belonging and exclusion. In the implementation of Nazi ideology, Wolf shows that politics could be both practical and principled. Here it becomes clear how a dynamic understanding of borders, which separated those who belonged from others who did not, could become a decisive instrument for the consolidation of German rule. This rule was legitimized and shaped by what we now call false nationalization."—Donald Bloxham, author of The Final Solution: A Genocide

"Gerhard Wolf's real contribution is to pick apart the highly conflictual and polycratic process by which Nazi policies were formed, tracking both the long-running turf war between the Reich Interior Ministry and the SS Race and Resettlement Office in Berlin. Well-researched, clear, convincing, with real intellectual verve."—Nicholas Stargardt, author of The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939-1945

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