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Model Nazi : Arthur Greiser and the occupation of western Poland / Catherine Epstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Catherine.
- Series:
- Oxford Studies in Modern European History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greiser, Arthur, 1897-1946.
- Greiser, Arthur.
- Nazis--Poland--Biography.
- Nazis.
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Wielkopolska.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Germanization--Poland--Wielkopolska.
- Germanization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (468 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the Warthegau 'German,' Greiser introduced numerous cruel policies. He spearheaded an influx of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans. He segregated Germans from Poles, and introduced wide-ranging discriminatorymeasures against the Polish population. He refashioned the urban and natural landscape to make it 'German.' And even more chill
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Note on Place Names and Terminology; Introduction; 1. 'Child of the East:' Posen Province, World War I, Danzig; 2. 'Little Maria:' Striving for Strength and Power in Danzig; 3. 'The Nicest Time of My Life:' Senate President; 4. The 'Model Gau:' The Warthegau; 5. 'A Blonde Province:' Resettlement, Deportation, Murder; 6. 'The German is the Master:' Segregation in the Warthegau; 7. 'The Most Modern Streets:' Exploiting Poles and Jews to Make the Gau German; 8. 'Feudal Duke:' Rule and Loss
- 9. 'Two Souls in My Breast:' Trial and ExecutionAfterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-438) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612639579
- 9780191613845
- 0191613843
- 9780199646531
- 0199646538
- 9780191576324
- 0191576328
- 9781282639577
- 1282639579
- OCLC:
- 645939985
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