German-occupied Europe in the Second World War

Edited by Raffael Scheck, Fabien Théofilakis, Julia Torrie

Routledge, avril 2019
264 p.

Inspired by recent works on Nazi empire, this book provides a framework to guide occupation research with a broad comparative angle focusing on human interactions. Overcoming national compartmentalization, it examines Nazi occupations with attention to relations between occupiers and local populations and differences among occupation regimes.

This is a timely book which engages in historical and current conversations on European nationalisms and the rise of right-wing populisms.

S'inscrivant dans le renouveau historiographique sur l'empire nazi, l'ouvrage propose, à travers 12 contributions, un aperçu des recherches sur l'Occupation à partir d'une approche comparative. Dépassant les compartimentations nationales pour prendre en compte les transferts d'expériences et les circulations d'une guerre mondiale à l'autre, d'un front à l'autre, l'ouvrage considère les occupations nazies en portant une attention toute particulière aux relations entre occupants et populations locales comme aux différences entre régimes d'occupation en Europe.

Raffael M. Scheck is Audrey Wade Hittinger Katz and Sheldon Toby Katz Professor of History at Colby College, Maine, USA
Fabien Théofilakis is Associate Professor of History at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Julia Torrie is Professor of History at St. Thomas University, Canada

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION by the Editors
 
FIRST PART: PRECURSORS AND CONTINUITIES
 

Chapter 1: Dangerous Duality: Experiencing and Remembering Civil-Military Conflict during Germany’s Occupation of Poland, 1914-1918, by Andrew Kless
Chapter 2: The Lessons of War and Occupation: The Career of Hans Nagel, 1914-1945, by Chad Denton
Chapter 3: Radical Reordering along Old Lines: National Socialist Population Policy, Citizenship, and Military Service in Occupied Alsace, 1940-1945, by Devlin M. Schofield

SECOND PART: CONCEPTS OF OCCUPATION
Chapter 4: Genocide as Organizing Principle in Raphael Lemkin’s Analysis of Nazi-Occupied Europe, by Raffael Scheck
Chapter 5: From a Nazi Imperialism to a Fascist Imperialism: Transnational Nationalisms and the Creation of a "New Europe", by Eric Roubinek
Chapter 6: From Principles to Pragmatism: The SS in Occupied France, 1940-1944, by Thomas Laub

THIRD PART: ECONOMIC MATTERS
Chapter 7: German Occupation of Italy, 1943-45: Conflicting Authorities and Contrasting Strategies in the Management of Resources and Supplies, by Alessandro Salvador and Jacopo Calussi
Chapter 8: The Gau Westmark as Colonial Outpost: Rethinking Economic, Military, and Racial Policies in Nazi-Annexed Moselle, by Elizabeth Vlossak

FOURTH PART: RACE, GENDER, AND THE INTERACTIONS OF OCCUPIERS AND OCCUPIED PEOPLE
Chapter 9: Women of the Reich: German Military Auxiliaries and the Occupation of Europe, by Julia Torrie
Chapter 10: Romance, Marriage, and the Lebensborn Program: Gendering German Expectations and Reality in Occupied Norway, by Caroline Nielsen
Chapter 11: The Volksdeutsche of Eastern Europe as Nazi Collaborators during World War II, by Christoph Schiessl
Chapter 12: Nazi Germanization Policy in Occupied Europe: An Overview, by Bradley J. Nichols

AFTERWORD by Shelley Baranowski
Index