Hitler's Empire

Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of the continent ever attempted in Europe's history. Liberalism and democracy were swept aside, as Germany aimed to turn itself into the most powerful state on the continent, and to compel everyone else to recognize its mastery. Europe's future was to lie in a new racial order based on the uprooting, resettlement and extermination of millions of people. "Hitler's Empire" charts the landscape of the Nazi imperial imagination - from those economists who dreamed of turning Europe into a huge market for German business, to Hitler's own plans for new trans-continental motorways passing over the ethnically cleansed Russian steppe, and earnest in-house SS discussions of political theory, dictatorship and the rule of law.Above all, this chilling account shows too what happened as these ideas met reality. After their early battlefield triumphs, the sheer bankruptcy of the Nazis' political vision for Europe became all too clear: their allies bailed out, their New Order collapsed in military failure, and they left behind a continent corrupted by collaboration, impoverished by looting and exploitation, and grieving the victims of total war and genocide.

ISBN	0713996811	Pages	768
ISBN13	9780713996814 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	1278
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd	Published in	London
Imprint	Allen Lane	Series title	Allen Lane History S.
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	241
Publication date	05 Jun 2008	Width (mm)	159
DEWEY	943.096	Spine width (mm)	50
DEWEY edition	DC22	Academic level	General

	List of Illustrations
	List of Maps
	Preface: The View from Varzin
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	For Greater Germany
1	Germans and Slavs: 1848-1918	15
2	Versailles to Vienna	31
3	Expansion and Escalation: 1938-40	53
4	The Partition of Poland	78
5	Summer 1940	102
6	War of Annihilation: Into the Soviet Union	137
7	Make This Land German for Me Again!	179
8	Organizing Disorder: 1941-2	223
Pt. 2	The New Order
9	Making Occupation Pay	259
10	Workers	294
11	Ersatz Diplomacy	319
12	The Final Solution: the Jewish Question	368
13	Collaboration	416
14	Eastern Helpers	446
15	Opposition	471
16	Hitler Kaputt!	522
Pt. 3	Perspectives
17	We Europeans	553
18	The New Order m World History	576
	Note	605
	Bibliography	648
	Index	673

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