EXPLOITATION, RESETTLEMENT, MASS MURDER

[...] reflects impeccable, painstaking research through an impressive array of sources. · Central European History ... provides the first substantial comparative analysis of the undertakings of political and economic planners, highlighting the conformity and conflicts between them. · H-Genocide Kay illuminates these issues through clear, insightful analysis, and through a crisp writing style, at times emotive and darkly (yet never inappropriately) humorous. [...] The book is a valuable addition to the literature, pointing the way to further research into such issues as the degree of knowledge which the German civil service as a whole possessed of the plans, and the degree of opposition - or lack thereof - with which they greeted the plans. As an all-too-rare English-language addition to the literature on this particular aspect of Germanys war in the east, it deserves attention from specialists and students alike. · War in History Based on meticulous research...this book is an excellent and well-written addition to the historiography about Nazi planning for mass murder. · European History Quarterly Kays painstaking exploration of the planning behind the subsequent organized chaos goes far to enhance our understanding of Nazi intentions vis-à-vis the population of the occupied Soviet Union. Holocaust and Genocide Studies This is an original, richly detailed, and on the whole readable work. There is more in it than a short review can cover. Although relatively specialised, it has a clear importance. The true originality of Kays work lies in reinterpretation as well as in archival evidence, but readers must work this out for themselves. American Historical Review ... [a] thoroughly researched work ... The foundations of the German Vernichtungskrieg are clearly shown in this book, which corrects and clarifies its chronological development by assembling little known facts into a sound study of Nazi planning...For a long time to come, historians will ha