The promise of the East
| Titel: | The promise of the East : Nazi hopes and genocide, 1939-43 / Christian Ingrao |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA : Polity, [2019] |
| Umfang: | xx, 312 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einheitssachtitel: | La promesse de l´Est |
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| ISBN: | 9781509527755 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of maps
- p. ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. x
- Synoptic table of plans for Germanization, displacements of population, and construction
- p. xii
- Introduction
- p. xvii
- Prologue: The moment of Utopia (September 1939-summer 1943)
- p. 1
- The mist-enshrouded time of foundations (1 September-30 November 1939)
- p. 2
- The round of short-term plans (1 December 1939-21 June 1941)
- p. 8
- New horizons: the General Plan for the East (22 June 1941-15 February 1943)
- p. 21
- Part I
- The men and the institutions of Utopia
- 1
- A nebula of institutions
- p. 29
- The diversity of the institutions of Utopia
- p. 29
- The central institutions: RKFdV, RSHA, WVHA
- p. 29
- The regional and local extensions of the SS: HSSPF and SSPF
- p. 33
- Local agencies and institutions: EWZ and UWZ
- p. 35
- Civilian administrations of incorporated and occupied territories
- p. 36
- How consensus was generated
- p. 37
- Forms and thoughts of the future in the East: the three main general plans
- p. 43
- The RSHA plans
- p. 43
- The WVHA memoranda
- p. 45
- Planning the RKFdV
- p. 46
- 2
- Networks and trajectories of the men of the East
- p. 48
- 'Men' of the East? A world in itself
- p. 48
- Professional networks and military networks
- p. 52
- Towards genocide? The itineraries of the experts
- p. 57
- 3
- Osteinsatz: the journey to the East, a form of Nazi fervour
- p. 65
- The East, between Utopia and anxiety
- p. 66
- The myths of the Great Trek
- p. 72
- The racial, hygienic and educational dimensions
- p. 80
- Conclusion
- p. 88
- Part II
- Times and spaces of Utopia
- 4
- General planning for the East
- p. 93
- The curse of Germanic insularity lifted
- p. 95
- Umvolkung: dissimilation or ethnomorphosis?
- p. 102
- The drying up of the alien ocean; mass murder and Utopia
- p. 108
- 5
- At the School of Fine Arts
- p. 116
- Thinking about space
- p. 117
- City, Volksgemeinschaft and segregation
- p. 124
- Dreaming of rural space: the architect, the SS and the peasant
- p. 131
- 6
- From one plan to the next? The Kammler sequence
- p. 138
- On planning style: the WVHA, Hans Kammler and their estimates
- p. 138
- Achieving Utopia? The institutionalization and failure of building programmes
- p. 144
- From the future back to the present: Utopia evaporates
- p. 150
- Conclusion
- p. 156
- Part III
- The case of Zamosc
- Introduction
- p. 161
- 7
- The microcosms of radical policy: Zamojszczyzna
- p. 162
- The men, the space and the past of Zamojszczyzna
- p. 162
- Institutional microcosms
- p. 168
- The land of all Nazi radicalisms
- p. 173
- 8
- The politics of the laboratory
- p. 179
- Classifying, expelling, deporting: the social engineering at the basis of Utopia
- p. 180
- Building: the Nazi attempt to shape the territory
- p. 186
- Building, installing, settling: at the heart of a new world
- p. 192
- 9
- The nightmare: horn the ethnic domino effect to the flames of despair
- p. 200
- In the full sight of all: the extermination of the Jews, prior to Germanization
- p. 201
- A society martyred
- p. 207
- Wars of the entre-soi ('inter-self wars'), (1943-1945)
- p. 214
- Conclusion
- p. 223
- Notes
- p. 229
- Appendix 1
- Main acronyms used in the text
- p. 274
- Appendix 2
- Organizational chart of the SS institutions of Utopia
- p. 276
- Timeline
- p. 278
- Index
- p. 307
