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The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International—Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).
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Names: Wolf, Gerhard, 1954- author. | Yung, Wayne, 1971- translator.
Title: Ideology and the rationality of domination : Nazi germanization policies in Poland / Gerhard Wolf, Wayne Yung.
Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2020. | Title of original work: Ideologie und Herrschaftsrationalität : Nationalsozialistische Germanisierungspolitik in Polen, 2012, Hamburger edition. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019054996 (print) | LCCN 2019054997 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253048073 (hardback) | ISBN 9780253048080 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Poland—History—Occupation, 1939–1945. | Germany—Relations—Poland. | Poland—Relations—Germany. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Germany. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Poland. | World War, 1939–1945—Poland. | Germany—Politics and government—1933–1945.
Classification: LCC D765 .W61713 2020 (print) | LCC D765 (ebook) | DDC 940.53/438—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054996
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054997
ISBN 978-0-253-04807-3 (hdbk.)
ISBN 978-0-253-04808-0 (web PDF)
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Original title: Ideologie und Herrschaftsrationalität: Nationalsozialistische Germanisierungspolitik in Polen
© 2012 by Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsges. mbH, Hamburg, Germany
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Administrative division of the annexed West Polish territories and the General Government on March 1, 1940. Map by Peter Palm.
Contents
Preface to the English Edition
Acknowledgments to the German Edition
1The German Quest for Polish Land
2War: Projecting the “Lebensraum” Dystopia onto Poland
3Consolidating Power: Reinforcing the German Occupation Regime through Population Policy
5Labor Deployment: Population Policy as a Tool of Exploitation and Assimilation
Preface to the English Edition
MY BOOK HAD hardly come out in German when Paula Bradish from my German publisher Hamburger Edition looked for ways of funding an English translation. I am very much indebted to her for taking the initiative and to the amazing program Geisteswissenschaften International for awarding a translation prize making my research accessible to an English-reading audience. I would also like to thank Professor Mark Roseman for his consistent support, this time for putting me in touch with Indiana University Press, where I was assisted by the efficient Ashante Thomas, who guided the book to publication. And it is published right on time—shortly after the edited volume Beyond the Racial State by Mark Roseman, Richard F. Wetzel, and Devon O. Pendas has demonstrated how fruitful a critique is that questions the paradigm of National Socialism as a racial state—which is also the argument of my book.
My final thanks are to Wayne Yung. When writing in English or reading English books on this topic, I am always struck by just how translation ends up becoming interpretation—often by intent, too often by accident. Finding the right words not just for the atrocities the Germans
