Hitlers Brudervolk - The Dutch and the Colonization of Occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-1945

Between the summers of 1941 and 1944, some 5,500 Dutch left their occupied homeland to find employment in the so-called German Occupied Eastern Territories: Belarus, the Baltic countries and parts of Ukraine. This was the area designated for colonization by Germanic people. It was also the stage of the "Holocaust by Bullets," a centrally coordinated policy of exploitation and oppression and a ruthless anti-partisan war. This book seeks to answer why the Dutch decided to go there, how their recruitment, transfer and stay were organized, and how they reacted to this scene of genocidal violence.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Hunger for Land 2. Pure-Blooded Germanics 3. Embarking on a Great Adventure 4. Towards Absolute Monopoly 5. The Benefits of Crime 6. Fragments of Colonial Dreams 7. The Final Act 8. Imperium Neerlandicum

About the author

Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel is Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University.

Product details

• Authors: Geraldien von Frijtag abbe Künzel, Geraldien Von Frijtag Drabbe Kunzel, Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2015
• EAN: 9781138803152
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80315-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front