1st Edition

Hitler’s Brudervolk The Dutch and the Colonization of Occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-1945

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first academic book on Dutch colonial aspirations and initiatives during WWII. Between the summers of 1941 and 1944, some 5,500 Dutch men and women left their occupied homeland to find employment in the so-called German Occupied Eastern Territories: Belarus, the Baltic countries and parts of Ukraine. This was the area designated for colonization by Germanic people. It was also the... Read more

Introduction  1. Hunger for Land  2. Pure-Blooded Germanics  3. Embarking on a Great Adventure  4. Towards Absolute Monopoly  5. The Benefits of Crime  6. Fragments of Colonial Dreams  7. The Final Act  8. Imperium Neerlandicum

Biography

Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel is Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University.

"With this important contribution to the study of Nazi imperialism, Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel explores Dutch attempts to stake out a claim in this vast continental empire… This is a well-researched book that restores agency to those Dutch organizations, leaders, and recruits who believed themselves to be charting new imperial terrain." - Jennifer L. Foray, Purdue University, Indiana, European History Quarterly