Coping with hunger and shortage under German occupation in World War II. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Peter Haslinger, Agnes Laba.
• Editors: Tönsmeyer, Tatjana, 1968-; Haslinger, Peter; Laba, Agnes
• Contents: Introduction:Supply Situations: Nazi Policies of Exploitation and Economies of Shortage of Occupied Societies during World War II;Tatjana Tönsmeyer.-Part I: Economies of Scarcity and 'Ersatz' Site.- Black market in the General Government 1939-1945: Survival strategy or (un)official economy?;Jerzy Kochanowski.- Economies of Scarcity in Belarusian Villages During the Second World War. How New Findings from Oral History Projects put a Perpetrator Centered Historiography in Perspective;Tatsiana Kasataya and Aliaksandr Smalianchuk.-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 create an egalitarian 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 – 45;Alessandro Salvador and Jacopo Calussi.- Bones of Contention: The Nazi Recycling Project in Germany and France during the Second World War;Heike Weber and Chad Denton.- Part II:Coping Strategies and Creating Privileges.-Between employer and self-organisation: Belgian workers and miners coping with food shortages under German occupation (1940-44);Dirk Luyten.- 'Dem tschechischen Arbeiter das Fressen geben'. Factory canteens in the 'Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia';Jaromír Balcar.- 'With the hope of a piece of sausage or a mug of beer' – Writing a History of Survival Sex in Occupied Europe;Maren Röger.-Part III: Vulnerabilities: At the Bottom of the Supply Pyramid.-Famine in Occupied Greece. On the Particular Role of the Elderly and the Infirm in a Starving Society;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 during 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 de Zwarte.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 940.5337; World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories -- Social aspects; Scarcity -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Starvation -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319774671
• Related ISBNs: 9783319774664
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