Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941 (War and Genocide Book 10)

Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in the political, economic and racial reorganization of the occupied Soviet territories and bring about the deaths of 'x million people' through a conscious policy of starvation. This study traces the step-by-step development of high-level planning for the occupation policy in the Soviet territories over a twelve-month period and establishes the extent to which the various political and economic plans were compatible. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 THE CENTRAL PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS CHAPTER 3 THE DECISION TO INVADE THE SOVIET UNION: THE PRIMACY OF ECONOMICS BY THE END OF 1940 CHAPTER 4 LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE HUNGERPOLITIK CHAPTER 5 PLANNING A CIVIL ADMINISTRATION CHAPTER 6 POPULATION POLICY CHAPTER 7 RADICALIZING PLANS TO EXPLOIT SOVIET RESOURCES CHAPTER 8 EXPECTATIONS AND OFFICIAL POLICY ON THE EVE OF THE INVASION CHAPTER 9 POST-INVASION DECISIONS CHAPTER 10 CONCLUSIONS APPENDICES GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX