Hitler's Brudervolk: The Dutch and the Colonization of Occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-1945

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Abstract

Between the summers of 1941 and 1944, some 5,500 Dutch men and women left their occupied homeland to find employment in the so-called German Occupied Eastern Territories: Belarus, the Baltic countries and parts of Ukraine. This was the area designated for colonization by Germanic people. It was also the stage of the 'Holocaust by Bullets', a centrally coordinated policy of exploitation and oppression and a ruthless anti-partisan war. Von Frijtag seeks to answer why the Dutch decided to go there, how their recruitment, transfer and stay were organized, and how they reacted to this scene of genocidal violence. It is a close-up study of racial monomania, of empire-building on the old continent and of collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages210
ISBN (Print)978015366720
Publication statusPublished - 31 Oct 2017

Publication series

Nameroutledge studies in modern european history
Publisherroutledge
Volume29

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