Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
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Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
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Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine

About this book

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. Ukraine, the “jewel” in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler’s SS and police, Hermann Göring’s economic plunderers, and a host of other satraps. 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. Lower puts names and faces to local perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries, as well as resisters. She argues that Nazi actions in the region evolved from imperial arrogance and ambition; hatred of Jews, Slavs, and Communists; careerism and pragmatism; greed and fear. In her analysis of the murderous implementation of Nazi “race” and population policy in Zhytomyr, Lower shifts scholarly attention from Germany itself to the eastern outposts of the Reich, where the regime truly revealed its core beliefs, aims, and practices.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations and Maps
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Glossary
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Nazi Colonialism and Ukraine
  11. Chapter 2 Military Conquest and Social Upheaval, July–August 1941
  12. Chapter 3 The Wehrmacht Administration of Zhytomyr
  13. Chapter 4 Making Genocide Possible
  14. Chapter 5 The Zhytomyr General Commissariat, 1942–1943
  15. Chapter 6 The General Commissariat’s Machinery of Destruction
  16. Chapter 7 Himmler’s Hegewald Colony
  17. Chapter 8 The Unraveling of Nazi Rule, 1943–1944
  18. Chapter 9 Legacies of Nazi Rule
  19. Appendix: German and Ukrainian Spellings of Place Names
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index