Hans Frank - Lebensraum and the Holocaust

The conquest of Lebensraum - living space - in Eastern Europe was the whole point of the Third Reich. This study investigates a key participant in the criminal project - Hans Frank - and how he tried to establish his corner of Hitler's racial empire. It reveals the different kinds of genocide perpetrated by the Nazis and explores the way in which the Führer's minions had to compete for a place in his apocalyptic system.

List of contents

Introduction: Hans Frank and the Biographer's Trade Fighter of Mind and Fist Spirit of the Age The Wrong Sort of Nazi Contours of Empire Hitler's Manager Murder as Social Policy Re-structuring Europe's Population Loyal Opponent Transitions Utilitarianism and the Appearance of Morality Re-living the Past Conclusion: Personality, Management and Criminal Motivation Footnotes Bibliography

About the author

MARTYN HOUSDEN teaches History and Criminology at the University of Bradford. His other books include Renaissance and Conformity in the Third Reich and Hitler: Study of a Revolutionary?

Summary

The conquest of Lebensraum - living space - in Eastern Europe was the whole point of the Third Reich. This study investigates a key participant in the criminal project - Hans Frank - and how he tried to establish his corner of Hitler's racial empire. It reveals the different kinds of genocide perpetrated by the Nazis and explores the way in which the Führer's minions had to compete for a place in his apocalyptic system.

Product details

• Authors: M Housden, M. Housden
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349512492
• ISBN: 978-1-349-51249-2
• No. of pages: 315
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 17 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 414 g
• Illustrations: IX, 315 p.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; B, History, European History, Social History, Social & cultural history, Second World War, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Europe—History, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler;empire;Europe;Genocide;Holocaust;social policy