Winston and Gail Ramsey This book focuses on the systems used by
the Axis powers for the governance of the countries that they
occupied during the Second World War. It would be easy to assume
that the administration of each country was carried out on a
somewhat ad hoc basis, but streams of detailed orders and decrees
were enacted to cover all aspects of everyday life . . . from
finance to crime. Dr Raphael Lemkin was a Polish émigré and the
person who coined the term `genocide’ during his study of
international law concerning crimes against humanity which he began
in 1933 — the year that the Nazis assumed power in Germany. Dr
Lemkin’s much-acclaimed work Axis Rule in Occupied Europe was
published in 1944 and extracts from it now form the framework on
which we have built this `then and now’ coverage of the
occupation of Czechoslovakia, Memel, Albania, Danzig, Poland,
Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, France,
Monaco, the Channel Islands, Greece, Yugoslavia, the Baltic states,
the Soviet Union, Romania, Italy and Hungary. Individual chapters
also cover the most serious crimes committed by the occupier: the
destruction of whole villages in Czechoslovakia, France, the
Netherlands and Greece, and the genocidal acts carried out in
Italy, Greece and Belgium, although nothing can equal the wholesale
slaughter enacted in the Balkans and the USSR. It has been
estimated that the Axis occupation of Europe cost between 20 and 25
million civilian lives, apart from the deaths of at least 16
million servicemen and women who paid the ultimate price in trying
to put Europe back together again. It is a debt that can never be
repaid. SIZE 12”×8½” 368 PAGES OVER 1,000
ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN 9 781870 067935 £39.95
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