C hristian I ngrao . The Promise of the East

Hitler and the National Socialists were not the first Germans to dream of the East. But only with them did dystopian visions take on such gigantomanic forms: a settlement area reaching to the Urals exclusively for Germans, in which only a few Slavs were intended to live, at best as slaves. This is the Generalplan Ost (General Plan for the East) which was ordered in different variants by Heinrich Himmler and planned by respected scientists. It is by no means a new field that Christian Ingrao is opening up with his book The Promise of the East: Nazi Hopes and Genocide 1939–43. In Poland, important studies and editions have already been published in the 1970s, and much has happened in Germany over the past twenty years. Shamingly late, one might add, German science organizations have investigated their funding policies during the Third Reich, as these were the precursors of...

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