Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political And Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941

Although they were never fully implemented by the Nazis because Hitler's expected easy victory over Soviet forces never materialized, plans for the political and economic administration of an occupied Soviet Union nevertheless existed and influenced the chaotic policy that actually did come to fruition. Kay (PhD, history, Humboldt U., Germany) describes the development of this planning and analyzes the extent to which economic and political plans interacted and conflicted with one another. Beyond this question, the two most important aspects of the planning that are discussed in the work are the Nazi's vision of a Neuordnung for the Soviet territories in which political borders would be arranged along ethnic lines and Soviet populations would be forced to make way for the resettlement of Germanic peoples and the Hungerpolitik or "starvation policy" that aimed toward the forceful seizure of agricultural produce and the consequent starvation of the Soviet population. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Alex J. Kay graduated from the Universities of Huddersfield and Sheffield in the UK and received his PhD from Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2005. The following year he received the Journal of Contemporary History's George L. Mosse Prize. Since 2014 he has been Senior Academic Project Coordinator at the Institute of Contemporary History Munich–Berlin. Dr Kay is author of The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990 (2016), and co-editor of Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization (2012).