Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941 – Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe

Alex J. Kay, Jeff Rutherford, David Stahel

Introduction Radicalizing Warfare: The German Command and the Failure of Operation Barbarossa Urban Warfare Doctrine on the Eastern Front The Wehrmacht in the War of Ideologies: The Army and Hitler's Criminal Orders on the Eastern Front "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 The Radicalization of German Occupation Policies: The Wirtschaftsstab Ost and the 121st Infantry Division in Pavlovsk, 1941 The Exploitation of Foreign Territories and the Discussion of Ostland's Currency in 1941 Axis Collaboration, Operation Barbarossa, and the Holocaust in Ukraine The Radicalization of Anti-Jewish Policies in Nazi-Occupied Belarus The Minsk Experience: German Occupiers and Everyday Life in the Capital of Belarus Extending the Genocidal Program: Did Otto Ohlendorf Initiate the Systematic Extermination of Soviet "Gypsies"? The Development of German Policy in Occupied France, 1941, against the Backdrop of the War in the East Conclusion: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization Appendix: Comparative Table of Ranks for 1941 Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index