Essays provide current interpretations of Germany's military, economic,
racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941.Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June
1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War
II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both
anall-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal practices -- became
most obvious. Germany's military aggression and overtly ideological conduct, culminating in
genocide against Soviet Jewry and the decimation of the Soviet population through planned
starvation and brutal antipartisan policies, distinguished Operation Barbarossa-the code
name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union-from all previous military campaigns in
modern European history. This collection of essays, written by young scholars of seven
different nationalities, provides readers with the most current interpretations of Germany's
military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941. With its breadth and its
thematic focus on total war, genocide, and radicalization, this volume fills a considerable
gap in English-language literature on Germany's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union
and theradicalization of World War II during this critical year. Alex J. Kay is the author
of Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German
Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941 and is an independent contractor for the
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences. Jeff Rutherford is assistant
professor of history at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he teaches modern European
history. David Stahel is the author of Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
and Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East.

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