Model Nazi - Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland

Zusatztext Epstein has done a remarkable job excavating Greiser's life ... a wide-ranging, vivid and readable history of occupation policies in western Poland that engages deftly with continuing debates on Greiser's role at key junctures Informationen zum Autor Catherine Epstein teaches modern European history at Amherst College. She is the author of The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 (1993), and she also serves as Associate Editor of the journal Central European History. Klappentext The compelling story of Arthur Greiser, territorial leader of the Warthegau and the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Zusammenfassung The compelling story of Arthur Greiser, territorial leader of the Warthegau and the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: 'Child of the East:' Posen Province, World War I, Danzig 2: 'Little Maria:' Love and Political Intrigue in Danzig 3: 'The Nicest Time of My Life:' Senate President 4: The 'Model Gau:' The Warthegau 5: 'A Blonde Province:' Resettlement, Deportation, Murder 6: 'The German is the Master:' Apartheid in the Warthegau 7: 'The Most Modern Streets:' Exploiting Poles and Jews to Make the Gau German 8: 'Feudal Duke:' Rule and Loss 9: 'Two Souls in My Breast:' Trial and Execution Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Collectif, Catherine Epstein, Catherine (Associate Professor of History Epstein, Epstein Catherine
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2010
• EAN: 9780199546411
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954641-1
• No. of pages: 468
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, Poland, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front