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Alex J Kay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Revisiting the Meeting of the Staatssekretäre on 2 May 1941: A Response to Klaus Jochen Arnold and Gert C. Lübbers:
Journal of Contemporary History, 2008Co-Authors: Alex J KayAbstract:In my article 'Germany's Staatssekretaire, Mass Starvation and the Meeting of 2 May 1941',' I posit that the meeting of the Staatssekretire on 2 May 1941 was an official session of the Economic Command Staff East, the management committee responsible for economically administering the occupied Soviet territories. Those present, namely the relevant representatives of the German ministerial bureaucracy and the Wehrmacht, signalled their endorsement of the ruthless exploitation of Soviet foodstuffs for the benefit of the invading troops and the home front, and at a cost of the lives of tens of millions of Soviet civilians. The meeting served to elaborate and co-ordinate the approach already sanctioned by Germany's supreme leadership. In this way, the meeting had massive implications for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union. With their article 'The Meeting of the Staatssekretaire on 2 May 1941 and the Wehrmacht: A Document up for Discussion',2 Klaus Jochen Arnold and Gert C. Liibbers have written a direct response to and critique of my article and the theses contained therein. In writing their article, Arnold and Liibbers have two principal aims. First, they seek to exonerate the Wehrmacht from their participation in the planning that is, the premeditated preparation of atrocities against civilians and prisoners of war in the Soviet territories at all costs. They do this in two ways: by playing down the importance of senior Wehrmacht officers such as General Georg Thomas in endorsing and planning these atrocities; and by giving the responsibility for this criminal intent exclusively to Adolf Hitler, his nominated successor Hermann Goring, and the Staatssekretair in the Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Herbert Backe. Secondly, by laying the blame at the door of a mere few, Arnold and Liubbers contest the centrality of the forced creation of food surpluses in German Occupation Policy for the Soviet Union, the agreement reached between the Wehrmacht, Party agencies and the German ministerial bureaucracy on this Policy and, in particular, the nature and significance
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exploitation resettlement mass murder political and economic planning for german Occupation Policy in the soviet union 1940 1941
2006Co-Authors: Alex J KayAbstract:Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching Occupation Policy which would result in the political, economic and racial reorganization of the occupied Soviet territories and bring about the deaths of 'x million people' through a conscious Policy of starvation. This study traces the step-by-step development of high-level planning for the Occupation Policy in the Soviet territories over a twelve-month period and establishes the extent to which the various political and economic plans were compatible. A graduate of the Universities of Huddersfield and Sheffield in the UK, Alex J. Kay obtained his doctorate in Modern and Contemporary History in 2005 from Berlin's Humboldt University, where he has also given courses on early modern British history. Based in Berlin, he is currently working on a new book on anti-Semitism in late Weimar parliamentary politics.
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exploitation resettlement mass murder political and economic planning for german Occupation Policy in the soviet union 1940 1941
2006Co-Authors: Alex J KayAbstract:Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction Organized Chaos: the German Occupation, 1941-1944 The State of Existing Scholarship Aims of the Study The Importance of Economic Considerations Structure and Additional Parameters of the Study Source Material Chapter 2. The Central Planning Organizations The Vierjahresplanbehoerde: Goering's Umbrella Organization The Dienststelle Rosenberg: the Eastern Experts of the NSDAP Chapter 3. The Decision to Invade the Soviet Union: the Primacy of Economics by the End of 1940 Overview: a Combination of Long- and Short-term Factors July 1940: Military Proposals against Britain's Last Remaining Potential Ally on the Continent July-August: Long-term Strategic and Economic Gain for Germany in the East September-October: Alternatives and Objections to an Eastern Campaign November: Before and After Molotov's Visit to Berlin November-December: the Increasing Relevance of Food Supplies and the Public Mood in Germany in View of the Need to Fight a Longer War Chapter 4. Laying the Foundations for the Hungerpolitik Backe's Presentations to the Supreme Leadership Working around Potential Difficulties Soviet Awareness of German Intentions Thomas's Study of Mid-February 1941 Setting Up an Economic Organization Chapter 5. Planning a Civil Administration Envisaging a Civil Administration Selecting an Administrative Chief Rosenberg as Administrative Chief: 'no better man' for the Job Personnel and Tasks Chapter 6. Population Policy Germanic Resettlement The Fate of the Soviet Jews: Pre-invasion Order for Genocide? A Territorial Solution to the 'Jewish Question' Chapter 7. Radicalizing Plans to Exploit Soviet Resources Calculated Economic Considerations and Nazi Ideology 2 May 1941: the Meeting of the Staatssekretare Wide-ranging Agreement The Hungerpolitik in Writing Soviet Labour: Deployment in the Reich? The Special Status of the Ukraine Chapter 8. Expectations and Official Policy on the Eve of the Invasion Counting on a Swift Victory Economic and Agricultural Guidelines The Standpoint of the Political Planners Chapter 9. Post-invasion Decisions 16 July 1941: the Conference at FHQ Ordering the Destruction of Leningrad and Moscow The Concept of a Territorial Ministry in the East Chapter 10. Conclusions Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index
Kensuke Yamamoto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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politics of demography and urban space in the land of prophets israeli palestinian conflict and Occupation Policy politik demografi dan ruang bandar di tanah nabi konflik dan polisi pekerjaan israel palestin
Jurnal Hadhari: An International Journal, 2017Co-Authors: Kensuke YamamotoAbstract:ABSTRACT This article aims to analyze the present condition of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by focusing on demography and space, in particular the urban space of the sacred cities, and examine the relationship between these two issues in the conflict. Obviously, demography and space are indivisible factors of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the national level, it concerns the demarcation between Israel and Palestine, and at the city level, urban space is a tying node of the politics of demography and space. Particularly, the conflict in the urban space of sacred city, the legitimacy of existence is contended. In such a case, even at the level of representation, demography and space have great deal of importance to decide how the conflict develops. So, demography and space are important both at national and city level, this might be an element to link between the macro and micro level of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ABSTRAK Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis keadaan semasa konflik Israel-Palestin dengan memberi tumpuan kepada demografi dan ruang, khususnya ruang bandar di bandar suci, dan mengkaji hubungan antara kedua-dua isu dalam konflik tersebut. Jelas sekali, demografi dan ruang adalah faktor terpisah dalam konflik Israel-Palestin. Di peringkat kebangsaan, ia berkaitan dengan sempadan antara Israel dan Palestin, dan di peringkat bandar, ruang bandar adalah nod yang mengikat politik demografi dan ruang. Terutamanya, konflik di ruang bandar di bandar suci, legitimasi kewujudan dipertikaikan. Dalam kes sedemikian, walaupun pada tahap perwakilan, demografi dan ruang mempunyai banyak kepentingan untuk menentukan bagaimana konflik itu berkembang. Oleh itu, demografi dan ruang penting di peringkat kebangsaan dan bandar, ini mungkin menjadi elemen untuk menghubungkan antara tahap makro dan mikro dalam konflik Israel-Palestin.
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Politics of demography and urban space in ‘the land of prophets’: Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Occupation Policy
2017Co-Authors: Kensuke YamamotoAbstract:This article aims to analyze the present condition of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by focusing on demography and space, in particular the urban space of the sacred cities, and examine the relationship between these two issues in the conflict. Obviously, demography and space are indivisible factors of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the national level, it concerns the demarcation between Israel and Palestine, and at the city level, urban space is a tying node of the politics of demography and space. Particularly, the conflict in the urban space of sacred city, the legitimacy of existence is contended. In such a case, even at the level of representation, demography and space have great deal of importance to decide how the conflict develops. So, demography and space are important both at national and city level, this might be an element to link between the macro and micro level of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Kurt K. Tweraser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Military Justice as an Instrument of American Occupation Policy in Austria 1945–1950: From Total Control to Limited Tutelage
Austrian History Yearbook, 1993Co-Authors: Kurt K. TweraserAbstract:This Essay Provides a critical assessment of the system of military justice established in Austria by the American Occupation authorities. It places military justice and its function in the wider context of U.S. Occupation Policy as it developed from total control to increasingly milder forms of tutelage under the impact of the Cold War and increasing Austrian self-assertion. The essay is based on the hitherto largely untapped files contained in seventy-five boxes of the Legal Division of the U.S. Military Government in Austria, collected in two visits in 1990 and 1991 to the National Archives in Suitland, Maryland.
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military justice as an instrument of american Occupation Policy in austria 1945 1950 from total control to limited tutelage
Austrian History Yearbook, 1993Co-Authors: Kurt K. TweraserAbstract:This Essay Provides a critical assessment of the system of military justice established in Austria by the American Occupation authorities. It places military justice and its function in the wider context of U.S. Occupation Policy as it developed from total control to increasingly milder forms of tutelage under the impact of the Cold War and increasing Austrian self-assertion. The essay is based on the hitherto largely untapped files contained in seventy-five boxes of the Legal Division of the U.S. Military Government in Austria, collected in two visits in 1990 and 1991 to the National Archives in Suitland, Maryland.
Ian D Turner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reconstruction in post war germany british Occupation Policy and the western zones 1945 1955
1992Co-Authors: Ian D TurnerAbstract:After years of relative neglect, the reconstruction of post-war Germany has recently become a major research focus for historians. The contributors to this volume were among the first to evaluate the archives relevant to their topic and are hence able to present many fresh insights into Allied Occupation Policy in the late 1940s, revealing the painful adjustment which German industry, institutions and citizens had to make in the post-1945 world.
Adam R. Seipp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Refugee Town: Germans, Americans, and the Uprooted in Rural West Germany, 1945—52
Journal of Contemporary History, 2009Co-Authors: Adam R. SeippAbstract:This article examines the experience of the small rural community of Wildflecken in the Bavarian district of Lower Franconia after the second world war. This area became an important center for those uprooted by the war, including Polish displaced persons, evacuees from German cities, and Germans who fled or were expelled from Eastern Europe. Because of its strategic location, it also attracted the interest of the US Army. The multi-faceted refugee crisis strongly influenced the development and implementation of Occupation Policy, while the presence of American and non-German outsiders helped to integrate ethnic German refugees into rural communities.
