Totalitarianism

Racial Values vs. Religious Values:Clerical Opposition to Nazi Anti-Polish Racial Policy

Bibliographic Data

ID9656141
AuthorsJohn J Delaney (Kutztown University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume70
Issue2
Pages271-294
Publication date2001-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChurch History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3654454
OpenAlexW2108018226
LanguageEN
References cited15

Hitler's wars for living space sent millions of Germans abroad and aggravated a severe labor shortage at home. German authorities recruited or forcibly transported up to seven million foreign workers to the Reich from 1939 to 1945. A great many of these civilian workers, POWs, and slave laborers came from Poland, the Ukraine, and western areas of the Soviet Union, that is, homelands the Nazi regime stigmatized as particularly “inferior.” Nazi racial thinking and wartime security concerns produced an extensive set of discriminatory measures aimed at the subjugation and strict control of Slavs. Nazi edicts required Poles and so-called Eastern Workers (Ostarbeiter) to wear a purple “P” or “Ost” badge on their outer clothing. Restrictive measures limited allowable movement to their immediate area of residence and work. The regime also imposed a system akin to apartheid. Racial law thus prohibited unnecessary social contact between members of the so-called master race and their “racial inferiors.”

Adversary · Archaeology · Economic shortage · German · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Residence · Sociology · Demography · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity

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