Birds of Prey : Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland / Philip W. Blood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blood, Philip W., 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945.

Atrocities.

Germany. Luftwaffe.

Germany.

Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.

Poland.

History.

Bialowieza Forest (Poland and Belarus)--History--20th century.

Bialowieza Forest (Poland and Belarus).

Physical Description:

xv, 484 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Ibidem Verlag, [2021]

Summary:

Birds of Prey is a microhistory of the Nazi occupation of Białowieza Forest, Poland's national park. The narrative stretches from G̲ring's palatial lifestyle to the common soldier on the ground killing Jews, partisans, and civilians. Based entirely on previously unpublished sources, the book is the synthesis of six areas of research: Hitler's Luftwaffe, the hunt and environmental history, military geography, Colonialism and Nazi Lebensraum, the Holocaust, and the war in the East. By weaving together a narrative about Hermann G̲ring, his inner circle, and ordinary soldiers, the book reveals the Nazi ambition to draw together East Prussia, the Bialystok region, and Ukraine into a common eastern frontier of the Greater German state, revealing how the Luftwaffe, the German hunt, and the state forestry were institutional perpetrators of Lebensraum and genocide. Up until now the Luftwaffe had not been identified in specific acts of genocide or placed at large scale killings of Jews, civilians, and partisans. This gap in the historical record had been facilitated by the destruction of the Luftwaffe's records in 1945. Through a forensic and painstaking process of piecing together scraps of evidence over two decades, and utilizing Geographical Information System software, Philip W. Blood managed to decipher previously obscure reports and expose patterns of Nazi atrocities.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1942

Excursions in Microhistory

An Aide-Memoire: Reading Maps Like German soldiers

1. The Ogre of Rominten

2. The Conquest of Wilderness

3. Grossdeutschland

4. Bandenbekampfung in the `Home Forces Area'

5. The Bialowieza Partisans

6. Population Engineering

7. Judenjagd

8. German Soldiers and Bandenbekampfung

9. 1943

10. Goring's Hunter Killers

11. Bandenjagd

12.1944. Retreat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Blood, Philip W. Birds of Prey.

ISBN:

9783838215679

3838215672

OCLC:

1252844580

Publisher Number:

99988702299