Model Nazi Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland

by Epstein, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780199546411
• ISBN10: 019954641X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The compelling story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the Warthegau 'German,' Greiser introduced numerous cruel policies, spearheading an influx of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans, segregating Germans from Poles, and introducing wide-ranging discriminatorymeasures against the Polish population. Even more chillingly, his jurisdiction oversaw the creation of the first and longest standing ghetto, the largest forced labour program, and the first mass gassings of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Author Biography

Catherine Epstein teaches modern European history at Amherst College. She is the author of The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 (1993), and she also serves as Associate Editor of the journal Central European History.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Maps and Tables	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Note on Place Names and Terminology	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
'Child of the East:' Posen Province, World War I, Danzig	p. 15
'Little Maria:' Striving for Strength and Power in Danzig	p. 49
'The Nicest Time of My Life:' Senate President	p. 85
The 'Model Gau:' The Warthegau	p. 124
'A Blonde Province:' Resettlement, Deportation, Murder	p. 160
'The German is the Master:' Segregation in the Warthegau	p. 193
'The Most Modern Streets:' Exploiting Poles and Jews to Make the Gau German	p. 231
'Feudal Duke:' Rule and Loss	p. 268
'Two Souls in My Breast:' Trial and Execution	p. 305
Afterword	p. 342
Notes	p. 345
Selected Bibliography	p. 430
Acknowledgments	p. 439
Index	p. 443
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