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Author Lehnstaedt, Stephan, 1980- author.

Title Occupation in the East : the daily lives of German occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944 / Stephan Lehnstaedt ; translated by Martin Dean
Edition English edition
Published New York : Berghahn, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : illustrations
Contents Germans on duty in the East in Warsaw and Minsk -- Prescribed daily activities -- Transgression of norms -- The attitude of the "overlords" -- Violence in everyday life : the German occupiers and the local population
Summary "Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. In this exhaustive study, Stephan Lehnstaedt provides a nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of these men and women, who constituted a surprisingly diverse population--including everyone from SS officers to civil servants, as well as ethnically German city residents--united in its self-conception as a "master race." Even as they acclimated to the daily routines and tedium of life in the East, many Germans engaged in acts of shocking brutality against Poles, Belarusians, and Jews, while social conditions became increasingly conducive to systematic mass murder."-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Published in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Warsaw"--Title page verso
"Originally published in German in 2010 as Okkupation im Osten : Besatzeralltag in Warschau und Minsk, 1939-1944"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index
Notes In English translated from the German
Print version record
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Poland -- Warsaw
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Belarus -- Minsk
Germans -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century
Germans -- Belarus -- Minsk -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Germans
Social aspects
SUBJECT Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104100
Belarus -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004903
Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- 20th century
Minsk (Belarus) -- History -- 20th century
Subject Belarus
Belarus -- Minsk
Poland
Poland -- Warsaw
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781785333248
1785333240
Other Titles Okkupation im Osten. English