Nazi Hunger Politics

Author : Gesine Gerhard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442227255

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Nazi Hunger Politics by Gesine Gerhard Pdf

During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture. The mass murder of Soviet soldiers and civilians by Nazi food policy has not yet received much attention, but this book is about to change that. Food played a central political role for the Nazi regime and served as the foundation of a racial ideology that justified the murder of millions of Jews, prisoners of war, and Slavs. This book is the first to vividly and comprehensively address the topic of food during the Third Reich. It examines the economics of food production and consumption in Nazi Germany, as well as its use as a justification for war and as a tool for genocide. Offering another perspective on the Nazi regime’s desire for domination, Gesine Gerhard sheds light on an often-overlooked part of their scheme and brings into focus the very important role food played in the course of the Second World War.

Author : Alice Autumn Weinreb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190605094

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Modern Hungers by Alice Autumn Weinreb Pdf

This text explores Germany's role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars

Author : Tatjana Tönsmeyer,Peter Haslinger,Agnes Laba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319774671

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Coping with Hunger and Shortage under German Occupation in World War II by Tatjana Tönsmeyer,Peter Haslinger,Agnes Laba Pdf

This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation. While the various chapters look at a range of topics, the main focus is on the experiences of ordinary people under occupation; their everyday life, and how this quickly became dominated by the search for supplies and different strategies to fight scarcity. The book discusses various such strategies for surviving increasingly catastrophic circumstances, ranging from how people dealt with rationing systems, to the use of substitute products and recycling, barter, black-marketeering and smuggling, and even survival prostitution. In addressing examples from Norway to Greece and from France to Russia, this volume offers the first pan-European perspective on the history of shortage, malnutrition and hunger resulting from the war, occupation, and aggressive German exploitation policies.

Author : Martin Gumpert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258025191

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Heil Hunger! Health Under Hitler by Martin Gumpert Pdf

Author : Alan Elsner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628721454

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The Nazi Hunter by Alan Elsner Pdf

A gripping thriller, The Nazi Hunter mixes fierce partisan Washington politics, the search for ex-Nazi criminals, and a crazed, right-wing militia intent on bringing down the government. Nicknamed “the Nazi Hunter,” Marek Cain, deputy director of the Office of Special Investigations at the Justice Department, has for ten years been the point man for tracking down ex-Nazis who have fraudulently entered the United States since World War II and bringing them to justice. One late afternoon, a distraught German woman eludes security and slips into Cain’s office. “I have documents,” she says, “important documents only for the Nazi Hunter.” She promises to bring them the next day. When she doesn’t show, he dismisses her as just another crackpot. But when he reads in the Washington Post the next morning that the woman has been brutally murdered, he senses he’s on to something big. He must find those documents. The trail leads from Washington to Miami to Boston, back to the Belzec concentration camp in Poland, where half a million Jews were murdered in the winter of 1942, and into the lair of America’s fascist militias.

Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509524709

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Mass Starvation by Alex de Waal Pdf

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.

Author : Jonathan Petropoulos
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807848093

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Art as Politics in the Third Reich by Jonathan Petropoulos Pdf

The political elite of Nazi Germany perceived itself as a cultural elite as well. In Art as Politics in the Third Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos explores the elite's cultural aspirations by examining both the formulation of a national aesthetic policy

Author : Heather Merle Benbow,Heather R. Perry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030271381

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Food, Culture and Identity in Germany's Century of War by Heather Merle Benbow,Heather R. Perry Pdf

Even in the harsh conditions of total war, food is much more than a daily necessity, however scarce—it is social glue and an identity marker, a form of power and a weapon of war. This collection examines the significance of food and hunger in Germany’s turbulent twentieth century. Food-centered perspectives and experiences “from below” reveal the social, cultural and political consequences of three conflicts that defined the twentieth century: the First and Second World Wars and the ensuing global Cold War. Emerging and established scholars examine the analytical salience of food in the context of twentieth-century Germany while pushing conventional temporal frameworks and disciplinary boundaries. Together, these chapters interrogate the ways in which deeper studies of food culture in Germany can shed new light on old wars.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465032976

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Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder Pdf

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080739892

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Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust by Anonim Pdf

A popularly written and illustrated history of the Holocaust. Deals with all of the victims of the Nazis' genocidal campaign: communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Poles and other Slavs, and Soviet POWs, as well as the "racial enemies" - Afro-Germans, the mentally and physically disabled, Gypsies, and Jews. Jews were regarded by the Nazis as the foremost "racial enemy". Pp. 110-156, "The Holocaust", deal specifically with the destruction of the Jews - from the first Nazi anti-Jewish measures in Germany, through the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and murders of Jews in Poland and the USSR, to the total mass murder in the death camps.

Author : Ingrid de Zwarte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836807

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The Hunger Winter by Ingrid de Zwarte Pdf

A pioneering study on the causes and consequences of the Dutch famine of 1944-1945.

Author : Benjamin Carter Hett
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250162519

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The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett Pdf

A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany’s leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler’s hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.

Author : Franz-Josef Brüggemeier,Mark Cioc,Thomas Zeller
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821416471

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How Green Were the Nazis? by Franz-Josef Brüggemeier,Mark Cioc,Thomas Zeller Pdf

Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich is the first book to examine the Third Reich's environmental policies and to offer an in-depth exploration of the intersections between brown ideologies and green practices.

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald A. Filtzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0253017122

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Hunger and War by Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald A. Filtzer Pdf

"Making use of recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food, and in feeding the Red army; the medicalization of hunger; hunger in blockaded Leningrad; and civilian mortality from hunger and malnutrition in other home front industrial regions. New research reported here challenges and complicates many of the narratives and counter-narratives about the war. The authors engage such difficult subjects as starvation mortality, bitterness over privation and inequalities in provisioning, and conflicts among state organizations. At the same time, they recognize the considerable role played by the Soviet state in organizing supplies of food to adequately support the military effort and defense production, and in developing policies that promoted social stability amid upheaval. The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Soviet population's experience of World War II as well as to studies of war and famine"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Corinna Treitel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781107188020

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Eating Nature in Modern Germany by Corinna Treitel Pdf

A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850.