3 The Wehrmacht in the War of Ideologies: The Army and Hitler’s Criminal Orders on the Eastern Front

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Radicalizing Warfare: The German Command and the Failure of Operation Barbarossa 19
7. 2 Urban Warfare Doctrine on the Eastern Front 45
8. 3 The Wehrmacht in the War of Ideologies: The Army and Hitler’s Criminal Orders on the Eastern Front 73
9. 4 “The Purpose of the Russian Campaign Is the Decimation of the Slavic Population by Thirty Million”: The Radicalization of German Food Policy in Early 1941 101
10. 5 The Radicalization of German Occupation Policies: The Wirtschaftsstab Ost and the 121st Infantry Division in Pavlovsk, 1941 130
11. 6 The Exploitation of Foreign Territories and the Discussion of Ostland’s Currency in 1941 155
12. 7 Axis Collaboration, Operation Barbarossa, and the Holocaust in Ukraine 186
13. 8 The Radicalization of Anti-Jewish Policies in Nazi-Occupied Belarus 220
14. 9 The Minsk Experience: German Occupiers and Everyday Life in the Capital of Belarus 240
15. 10 Extending the Genocidal Program: Did Otto Ohlendorf Initiate the Systematic Extermination of Soviet “Gypsies”? 267
16. 11 The Development of German Policy in Occupied France, 1941, against the Backdrop of the War in the East 289
17. Conclusion: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization 314
18. Appendix: Comparative Table of Ranks for 1941 321
19. Selected Bibliography 323
20. List of Contributors 341
21. Index 345