- Summary
- This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation. While the various chapters look at a range of topics, the main focus is on the experiences of ordinary people under occupation; their everyday life, and how this quickly became dominated by the search for supplies and different strategies to fight scarcity. The book discusses various such strategies for surviving increasingly catastrophic circumstances, ranging from how people dealt with rationing systems, to the use of substitute products and recycling, barter, black-marketeering and smuggling, and even survival prostitution. In addressing examples from Norway to Greece and from France to Russia, this volume offers the first pan-European perspective on the history of shortage, malnutrition and hunger resulting from the war, occupation, and aggressive German exploitation policies.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan [2018]
©2018
- Locale
- Europe
- Contents
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Supply situations : National Socialist policies of exploitation and economies of shortage in occupied societies during World War II / Tatjana Tönsmeyer
Black market in the general government 1939-1945 : survival strategy or (un)official economy? / Jerzy Kochanowksi
Economies of scarcity in Belarusian villages during World War II : how new findings from oral history projects put a perpetrator-centred historiography in perspective / Aliaksandr Smalianchuk and Tatsiana Kasataya
Supplies under pressure : survival in a fully rationed society : experiences, cases and innovation in rural and urban regions in occupied Norway / Guri Hjeltnes
'The black market is a crime against community' : the failure of the Vichy government to bring about an egalitarian system of distribution and the growth of the black market in France during the German occupation (1940-1944) / Fabrice Grenard
The black market in occupied Italy and the approach of Italian and German authorities (1943-1945) / Jacopo Calussi and Alessandro Salvador
Bones of contention : the Nazi recycling project in Germany and France during World War II / Chad B. Denton and Heike Weber
Between employer and self-organisation : Belgian workers and miners coping with food shortages under German occupation (1940-1944) / Dirk Luyten
'Dem tschechischen Arbeiter das Fressen geben' : factory canteens in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia / Jaromír Balcar
'In the hope of a piece of sausage or a mug of beer' : writing a history of survival sex in occupied Europe / Maren Röger
'Choosing' between children and the elderly in the Greek famine (1941-1944) / Violetta Hionidou
Food, money and barter in the Lvov Ghetto, eastern Galicia / Natalia Aleksiun
The North Caucasus and German exploitation policies in World War II : everyday life experience of children under the Occupation / Irina Rebrova and Elena Strekalova
'... have not received any deliveries of potatoes for quite some time ...' : food supply and acquisition in the ghettos of Vilnius and Kaunas / Joachim Tauber
Fighting vulnerability : child-feeding initiatives during the Dutch Hunger Winter / Ingrid J. J. de Zwarte.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Tönsmeyer, Tatjana, 1968- editor.
Haslinger, Peter, editor.
Laba, Agnes, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Supply situations : National Socialist policies of exploitation and economies of shortage in occupied societies during World War II / Tatjana Tönsmeyer -- Black market in the general government 1939-1945 : survival strategy or (un)official economy? / Jerzy Kochanowksi -- Economies of scarcity in Belarusian villages during World War II : how new findings from oral history projects put a perpetrator-centred historiography in perspective / Aliaksandr Smalianchuk and Tatsiana Kasataya -- Supplies under pressure : survival in a fully rationed society : experiences, cases and innovation in rural and urban regions in occupied Norway / Guri Hjeltnes -- 'The black market is a crime against community' : the failure of the Vichy government to bring about an egalitarian system of distribution and the growth of the black market in France during the German occupation (1940-1944) / Fabrice Grenard -- The black market in occupied Italy and the approach of Italian and German authorities (1943-1945) / Jacopo Calussi and Alessandro Salvador -- Bones of contention : the Nazi recycling project in Germany and France during World War II / Chad B. Denton and Heike Weber -- Between employer and self-organisation : Belgian workers and miners coping with food shortages under German occupation (1940-1944) / Dirk Luyten -- 'Dem tschechischen Arbeiter das Fressen geben' : factory canteens in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia / Jaromír Balcar -- 'In the hope of a piece of sausage or a mug of beer' : writing a history of survival sex in occupied Europe / Maren Röger --'Choosing' between children and the elderly in the Greek famine (1941-1944) / Violetta Hionidou -- Food, money and barter in the Lvov Ghetto, eastern Galicia / Natalia Aleksiun -- The North Caucasus and German exploitation policies in World War II : everyday life experience of children under the Occupation / Irina Rebrova and Elena Strekalova -- '... have not received any deliveries of potatoes for quite some time ...' : food supply and acquisition in the ghettos of Vilnius and Kaunas / Joachim Tauber -- Fighting vulnerability : child-feeding initiatives during the Dutch Hunger Winter / Ingrid J. J. de Zwarte.
