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On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi market leaders at his head office in East Prussia to determine how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would turn into a German colony given by Heinrich Himmler's SS and law enforcement, Hermann Goring's financial plunderers, and a host of other satraps. Focusing on the Zhytomyr region and weaving alongside one another established German wartime details, diaries, memoirs, and personal interviews, Wendy Lower provides the most complete analysis available of German colonization and the Holocaust in Ukraine.
Midlevel "managers," Lower shows, played major functions in mass murder, and locals willingly participated in violence and theft. Lower puts titles and faces to local perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries, as well as resisters. She argues that Nazi activities in the region progressed from imperial arrogance and ambition; hatred of Jews, Slavs, and Communists; careerism and pragmatism; greed and dread. In her examination of the murderous implementation of Nazi "race" and society policy in Zhytomyr, Lower shifts scholarly attention from Germany itself to the eastern outposts of the Reich, where the regime truly discovered its core values, aims, and practices.
