Dallin A. German Rule in Russia, 1941-1945: A Study of Occupation Policies

2nd Revised Edition. — London — Boulder: Macmillan Publ.; Westview Press, 1981. — 707 p. — ISBN: 0-86531-102-1.For a period of three years — from the summer of 1941 to the summer of 1944 — large parts of the Soviet Union were under German occupation. For another year thereafter, until the capitulation of the Third Reich, several millions of former Soviet citizens were under German control as soldiers, prisoners, labourers, and refugees. For the Soviet Government the German invasion constituted a crucial test of its ability to control its people at a time of crisis. To the sixty-odd million in German-occupied territory the war provided, for the first time in over a generation, an opportunity to choose between two alternatives of allegiance. In one way or another every inhabitant was compelled, as Lenin had said in 1917, to ‘vote with his feet’. To the Germans the same events represented a unique challenge — militarily, politically, morally, economically. German policy, in the invasion, occupation, and retreat from Russia, is the subject of this book.The Setting
Germany and the East
Power and Personalities; Feuds and Fissure Over the Eastern Question
Political Goals and the Nationality Question
Face to Face: The First Six Months of War
The Administration of the Occupied East
People and Policies
Germany and the Ukraine: Emigres and Nationalists
Germany and the Ukraine: The Ukrainian Fulcrum
Germany and the Ukraine: Reaping the Whirlwind
The Diadochi and the East
Ostland: Lohse and the Baltic States
Belorussia
The Crescent and the Swastika: Turkey and the Caucausus
The Crescent and the Swastika: Tatars and Turks
Masters and Serfs
Problems and Practice
Economic Policy; Nazi Aims and Outlook
Germany and Eastern Agriculture I
Germany and Eastern Agriculture II
Germany and the Soviet Economy
Prisoners of War
Ostarbeiter
Kultur and the Untermensch
The Church: Lever or Challenge?
Political Warfare
Cast and Credos
The Uphill Struggle
The Sword and the Pen
Vlasov Movement: First Phase
The SS: From Dread to Despair
The Card House Climax
On the Brink of the Abyss
A Last Look at Ostpolitik