The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities. Taking a 'history from below' approach, the volume examines how the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with forced foreign workers and slave labourers and concentration camp prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society's relationship to the Holocaust. From early 1943, the war on the home front was increasingly dominated by attack from the air. The role of the Party, administration, police, and courts in providing for the vast numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian morale with 'miracle revenge weapons' propaganda, and in maintaining order in a society in disintegration is reviewed in detail. For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of ideology and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the troops after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is analysed through study of a typical infantry division. The volume concludes with an account of the various forms of resistance to Hitler's regime, in society and the military, culminating in the failed attempt on his life in July 1944.

Germany and the Second World War: Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival

History

Förster, Jürgen

Blank, Ralf

Echternkamp, Jörg

Fings, Karola

Heinemann, Winfried

Jersak, Tobias

Nolzen, Armin

Rass, Christoph

Cook-Radmore, Derry

Europe

Clarendon Press

The first text in a three-volume series in the Interface Collection, based on the latest research into the racial theories which underlay the suffering of the Gypsies in the Holocaust and their fate in the death camps in the occupied countries of Hitler's Europe.

The Gypsies during the Second World War: Volume 1: From Race Science to the Camps (Interface Collection)

Heuss, Herbert

Sparing, Frank

University Of Hertfordshire Press

Tells the story of what happened at two American-owned German factories under the Third Reich: Opel, owned by General Motors, and Ford Werke, owned by Ford Motor Company. These factories became indispensable suppliers to the German armed forces, and during the war, used thousands of POWs, civilians from German-occupied countries, and concentration camp prisoners as forced laborers. This account details the war era, and describes negotiations towards settlement of class action lawsuits against German corporations in US courts. Includes conversations with survivors. Billstein is historian of industry and urban life at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Working for the Enemy: Ford, General Motors, and Forced Labor in Germany During the Second World War

Business & Money

Kugler, Anita

Levis, Nicholas

Billstein, Reinhold

Biography & History

Berghahn Books

Messelager Köln: Ein KZ-Aussenlager im Zentrum der Stadt (Schriften des NS-Dokumentationszentrums der Stadt Köln) (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Emons

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