Leonid Rein

The Kings and the Pawns

Collaboration in Byelorussia During World War II

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement. This movement, a reaction to the brutal occupation policies, was very strong indeed. Still, as the author shows, there existed in Byelorussia a whole web of local institutions and organizations which, some willingly, others with reservations, participated in the implementation of various aspects of occupation policies. The very sensitivity of the topic of collaboration has prevented researchers from approaching it for many years, not least because in the former Soviet territories ideological considerations have played an important role in preserving the topic's "untouchable" status. Focusing on the attitude of German authorities toward the Byelorussians, marked by their anti-Slavic and particularly anti-Byelorussian prejudices on the one hand and the motives of Byelorussian collaborators on the other, the author clearly shows that notwithstanding the postwar trend to marginalize the phenomenon of collaboration or to silence it altogether, the local collaboration in Byelorussia was clearly visible and pervaded all spheres of life under the occupation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9781845457761
• ISBN-10: 1845457765
• Artikelnr.: 40249864

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Collaboration in Occupied Europe: Theoretical Overview
* Defining the Collaboration
* Comparative Overview
* The Background
* The Nazi Attitude toward Collaboration
* The Collaboration and Collaborators
* Economic Collaboration
* Police Collaboration
* Collaboration in the Persecution of Jews
* Military Collaboration
Chapter 2. Historical Background
* General Information
* Byelorussia between Two World Wars
* "Reunification" of Byelorussia
* The Outbreak of the War
Chapter 3. German Policies in Byelorussia (1941-1944)
* The Eastern Policies of the Third Reich
* Hitler's Vision of the East
* The Ostministerium and the Eastern Policy
* The Wehrmacht and the East German
* Visions of Byelorussia
* Germans and Byelorussian Nationalists on the Eve of the Nazi Invasion
into the USSR
* The Nazi Regime in Byelorussia: From Invasion to Occupation
* Local Self-Administration and Occupation
* Agricultural Policies of the German Occupier
* Labor Policies under German Occupation
* The Outcome and Shift in Occupation Politics
Chapter 4. Byelorussian "State-Building": Political Collaboration in
Byelorussia
* "Local Self-Administration"
* The Byelorussian Popular Self-Aid Organization
* The Union of Byelorussian Youth (SBM)
* The Byelorussian Central Council
Chapter 5. The Cross and the Hooked Cross: the Church's Collaboration in
Occupied Byelorussia
* Background
* Rosenberg's Influence
* From Theory to Practice
Chapter 6. Ideological Collaboration in Byelorussia: The "Legal" Press as a
Propagandist Tool of the Nazis' New Europe
Chapter 7. Collaboration in the Politics of Repression
* Collaboration in the Holocaust
* The Extermination Process in Byelorussia
Chapter 8. Military-Police Collaboration in Byelorussia
* The Beginnings
* Local Auxiliary Security Forces: Strength, Structure and the German
Attitude
* Dogmatism vs. Reality: Byelorussian "Self-Defense" and the "Home
Guard"
* Strange Allies: Armija Krajowa and Germans
* "Untermenschen" in SS Uniforms
Summary
Appendix: SS and Military Ranks
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Places
Index of Persons