German Rule In Russia 1941-1945: A Study Of Occupation Policies
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Edition: 2nd rev, us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Faded dj with small tears. unmrkd. Binding remain tight.
In the vast, frozen reaches of the Eastern Front, Nazi Germany launched one of the most brutal and consequential occupations in modern history — a campaign that would shape the fate of millions and seal the outcome of World War II. Alexander Dallin's German Rule in Russia 1941-1945: A Study of Occupation Policies is the definitive scholarly chronicle of how the Third Reich conceived, administered, and ultimately destroyed its own imperial ambitions in the occupied Soviet territories, detailing the catastrophic interplay of ideology, bureaucratic infighting, and racial policy that drove German decision-making from 1941 to 1945. With meticulous precision, Dallin documents the competing Nazi factions — from the ruthless SS apparatus to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories — and illustrates how their contradictory agendas of exploitation, extermination, and colonisation undermined any prospect of sustained control over the Russian population. This landmark work of historical scholarship, now in its revised Second Edition, argues persuasively that German occupation policy was not a coherent strategy but a self-defeating chaos born of ideological fanaticism and institutional rivalry. Dallin's authoritative and dispassionate prose draws on an extraordinary breadth of captured documents and testimonies, presenting a forensic anatomy of totalitarian governance at its most destructive. A foundational text for any serious student of the Second World War and the Nazi regime, it leaves the reader confronting a chilling question: how much of the Third Reich's ultimate defeat was written into the very policies it imposed upon the people it sought to conquer?
Author: Alexander Dallin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Westview Press, Bouder
Genre: WW2
Edition: 2nd rev, us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Faded dj with small tears. unmrkd. Binding remain tight.
In the vast, frozen reaches of the Eastern Front, Nazi Germany launched one of the most brutal and consequential occupations in modern history — a campaign that would shape the fate of millions and seal the outcome of World War II. Alexander Dallin's German Rule in Russia 1941-1945: A Study of Occupation Policies is the definitive scholarly chronicle of how the Third Reich conceived, administered, and ultimately destroyed its own imperial ambitions in the occupied Soviet territories, detailing the catastrophic interplay of ideology, bureaucratic infighting, and racial policy that drove German decision-making from 1941 to 1945. With meticulous precision, Dallin documents the competing Nazi factions — from the ruthless SS apparatus to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories — and illustrates how their contradictory agendas of exploitation, extermination, and colonisation undermined any prospect of sustained control over the Russian population. This landmark work of historical scholarship, now in its revised Second Edition, argues persuasively that German occupation policy was not a coherent strategy but a self-defeating chaos born of ideological fanaticism and institutional rivalry. Dallin's authoritative and dispassionate prose draws on an extraordinary breadth of captured documents and testimonies, presenting a forensic anatomy of totalitarian governance at its most destructive. A foundational text for any serious student of the Second World War and the Nazi regime, it leaves the reader confronting a chilling question: how much of the Third Reich's ultimate defeat was written into the very policies it imposed upon the people it sought to conquer?