German-occupied Europe in the Second World War

"Limitations of space prevent me from giving adequate attention to all of the contributions to this volume, but suffice it to say that this thin tome packs a lot of punch. It would serve well as a source of reading assignments in a graduate seminar and it reflects well on a scholarly field that continues to generate new information and important new perspectives on a period of modern history that was as ghastly as it was transformative." - Aviel Roshwald, Georgetown University, USA

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

INTRODUCTION by the Editors FIRST PART: PRECURSORS AND CONTINUITIES Chapter 1: Dangerous Duality: Experiencing and Remembering Civil-Military Conflict during Germanys 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 Lemkins 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