German Occupation Policy - Poland

[Oxford]

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good book (in English) on Germany's occupation of Poland -- something similar to Dallin's "German Rule in Russia"?

[Lorenz]

Poland, Occupation of.

See in particular: Chodakiewicz, Cyprian, Muñoz, Piotrowski and Rossino.

http://books.stonebooks.com/cgi-bin/fox ... ts?1000805

[Richard Hargreaves]

There's no shortage of material "out there", but it is rather scattered.

Rossino is excellent; Edward Westermann has also written a first-rate account of police units which has a chapter on policy in Poland

Journalist John McCutcheon Raleigh wrote a good contemporary account, Behind the Nazi Front.

Helmut Krausnick's Hitlers Einsatzgruppen (a shortened version of Truppe des Weltanschauungskrieg) contains some interesting stuff on Poland, as does Muller, Das Heer und Hitler, and also the unease among some generals about Nazi policy. The biography of Blaskowitz by Richard Giziowski and Gerhard Engel's diary also contain material on the disagreements between the Army and NSDAP.

Feldpost letters in Bahr and Bahr, Buchbender and Manoschek, Walter (ed), Es gibt nur eines für das Judentum: Vernichtung - Das Judenbild in deutschen Soldatenbriefen 1939-1944 are excellent for giving a contemporary view from the German soldier, as are many of the propaganda accounts published 1939-1940.

[Opa]

Klaus-Peter Friedrich's essay in the book "Kooperation und Verbrechen - Formen der Kollaboration im östlichen Europa 1939-1945" ("Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus"), review in
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de ... 2004-1-104

All auf Deutsch, though.

[Oxford]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Jussi]

Do check out "Odilo Globocnik, Hitler´s man in the East" by Joseph Poprzeczny (McFarland & Company, 2004). Globocnik was the Nazi-Governor in Lublin for four years and put the Generalplan Ost in effect there to the demise of the local population.

[Opa]

Though it has become an article of faith since the 1980s among brainwashed German historians, there is still not proof that what happened East was due to that Plan. Klaus-Jochen Arnold in his Die Wehrmacht und die Besatzungspolitik in den besetzten Gebieten der Sowjetunion (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2005), shows carefully how there was no prior intention to starve millions of people to death, it happened only after there simply was not enough food to go around (largely because of Stalin's scorched earth policy that undercut any planning). He denounces Gerlach, Streit and the other agitprop ideologues. Arnold does not hide those Nazi measures that were criminal, but does not invent new ones.

A book worth reading!

[Jan-Hendrik]

Arnold's book is a first step onto the way of "deideologacion" of german actual historiography

And that was more than neccessary, in my humble opinion. Facts, instead of myth& interpretation...no surprise that he makes Gerlach and Streit not looking good...



Jan-Hendrik

[Domen123]

What do Arnold's book has to do with the German occupation policy in Poland? Isn't his book about the USSR?

[Opa]

It has in the sense that some historians see Nazi policy towards Poland and Russia through the lens of Generalplan Ost, and Arnold argues that many policies were not done as part of that plan but rather ad-hoc.