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Author : Kristin Kopp
Release : 2012-09-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 447/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Germany's Wild East by : Kristin Kopp
Download or read book Germany's Wild East written by Kristin Kopp. This book was released on 2012-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of the elements of colonial relationships is new in paperback
Author : Michael Lee
Release : 2017-06-13
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Book Rating : 940/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Germany's Wild East by : Michael Lee
Download or read book Germany's Wild East written by Michael Lee. This book was released on 2017-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions
Author : Kristin Kopp
Release : 2012-09-27
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 588/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Germany's Wild East by : Kristin Kopp
Download or read book Germany's Wild East written by Kristin Kopp. This book was released on 2012-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.
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Release : 2012
Genre : Colonies in literature
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Book Rating : 012/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Germany's Wild East by :
Download or read book Germany's Wild East written by . This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.
Author : Ben Shepherd
Release : 2009-06-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 553/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis War in the Wild East by : Ben Shepherd
Download or read book War in the Wild East written by Ben Shepherd. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nazi eyes, the Soviet Union was the "wild east," a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This conflict brought death and destruction to thousands of Soviet civilians, and has been held as a prime example of ordinary German soldiers participating in the Nazi regime's annihilation policies. Ben Shepherd enters the heated debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht in a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of its anti-partisan campaign in the Soviet Union. He investigates how anti-partisan warfare was conducted, not by the generals, but by the far more numerous, average Germans serving as officers in the field. What shaped their behavior was more complex than Nazi ideology alone. The influence of German society, as well as of party and army, together with officers' grueling yet diverse experience of their environment and enemy, made them perceive the anti-partisan war in varied ways. Reactions ranged from extreme brutality to relative restraint; some sought less to terrorize the native population than to try to win it over. The emerging picture does not dilute the suffering the Wehrmacht's eastern war inflicted. It shows, however, that properly judging ordinary Germans' role in that war is more complicated than is indicated by either wholesale condemnation or wholesale exoneration. This valuable study offers a nuanced discussion of the diversity of behaviors within the German army, as well as providing a compelling exploration of the war and counterinsurgency operations on the eastern front.
