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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Westermann, Edward B. Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian wars. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016] (OCoLC)959554679 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward B Westermann |
ISBN: | 9780806154336 0806154330 9780806164670 0806164670 |
OCLC Number: | 949866270 |
Description: | xiii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Visions of conquest : Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum -- National policies of race and space -- Strategy and warfare -- Massacre and atrocity -- War in the shadows : guerrilla warfare in the West and the East. |
Series Title: | Campaigns and commanders, v. 56. |
Responsibility: | Edward B. Westermann. |
Abstract:
As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States's westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were, he said, his "redskins," and for his colonial fantasy of a "German East" he claimed a historical precedent in the United States's displacement and killing of the native population. Edward B. Westermann examines the validity, and value, of this claim in Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars. The book takes an empirical approach that highlights areas of similarity and continuity, but also explores key distinctions and differences between these two national projects. The westward march of American empire and the Nazi conquest of the East offer clear parallels, not least that both cases fused a sense of national purpose with racial stereotypes that aided in the exclusion, expropriation, and killing of peoples. Westermann evaluates the philosophies of Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum that justified both conquests, the national and administrative policies that framed Nazi and U.S. governmental involvement in these efforts, the military strategies that supported each nation's political goals, and the role of massacre and atrocity in both processes. Important differences emerge: a goal of annihilation versus one of assimilation and acculturation; a planned military campaign versus a confused strategy of pacification and punishment; large-scale atrocity as routine versus massacre as exception.
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This thoughtful, provocative book compares the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe with the United States's conquest of the American West. Its insights and conclusions are sure to stimulate new debates among a broad array of scholars.""Robert Wooster, author of The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783 - 1900""...this sensitive and incisive book...has set a high standard for future work on mass violence and genocide."" - American Historical Review Read more...
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- Manifest Destiny.
- United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
- Indians, Treatment of -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
- Massacres -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Europe, Eastern.
- Genocide -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
- Germany -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 20th century.
- Atrocities.
- Genocide.
- Indians of North America -- Wars.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Massacres.
- Military campaigns.
- Territorial expansion.
- Eastern Europe.
- Germany.
- Soviet Union.
- United States.
- West United States.
- Indianerkriege
- Russlandfeldzug
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