Following the brutal invasion and occupation of Poland, the Nazis
moved swiftly to realize one of their key ideological aims, the
expansion of German living space: deport Jews, bring in German
settlers and subjugate the rest of the population to a selection
process to separate Poles from ethnic Germans. As simple as this
might have seemed initially, the various parts of the German
occupation machinery soon found themselves embroiled in a bitter
fight about the essence of Germanness and how to identify a German.
Gerhard Wolf reveals an astonishing development in which a more
inclusivist understanding of Germanness based on a more traditional
notion of Volk eventually won out against one that was based on
Rasse and much more exclusivist. This had important implications,
as Wolf can show, as it paved the way for turning around three
million Poles into German citizens. Parallel to the mass
deportation and mass murder of Christian Poles and the genocide of
Jewish Poles, the Nazis paradoxically thus also presided over the
largest (forced) assimilation program in German history. Students
and scholars of the Polish occupation, the Holocaust, and Nazism
will find new analysis of German imperialism, ethnic cleansing, and
genocide in this important book.
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