Coping with hunger and shortage under German occupation in World War II /
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[Book]
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Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Peter Haslinger, Agnes Laba, editors.
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Cham, Switzerland :
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Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
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1 online resource (334 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I Introduction; Supply Situations: National Socialist Policies of Exploitation and Economies of Shortage in Occupied Societies During World War II; Exploitation Policies; Rationing Systems and the Attribution of Survival Chances; Makeshift Economies Across Occupied Europe; Criminalising Survival Strategies; Occupation, Shortages and Social Order; Part II Economies of Scarcity and "Ersatz" Sites; Black Market in the General Government 1939-1945: Survival Strategy or (Un)Official Economy?
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A Dual EconomyA Watershed: A Complex Picture; Things Were Different Then; The Rationed Society; The Occupation at School-A Learning Process; A Meagre Existence; Daily Bread and Milk; Cod Liver Oil; Growing 600,000 Tonnes of Potatoes a Year; Natural Green Vegetation; Town and Country: Hatred and Friendship; Social Cohesion and Innovation; Alternative and Innovative Food Channels
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Introductory RemarksThe Black Market Under the GG: Polish Involvement; The Black Market Under the GG: German Involvement; Assessment and Legacy; Economies of Scarcity in Belarusian Villages During World War II: How New Findings from Oral History Projects Put a Perpetrator-Centred Historiography in Perspective; The Main Source of Provision Was Land; The Village Fed Itself, the City, the Germans and the Partisans; Supplies Under Pressure: Survival in a Fully Rationed Society: Experiences, Cases and Innovation in Rural and Urban Regions in Occupied Norway; Five Years of Occupation
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The Black Market in Occupied Italy and the Approach of Italian and German Authorities (1943-1945)Introduction; The German Occupation of Italy and the Food Crisis; Actors and Peculiarities of the Italian Black Market; Shortages and the Role of the Rural Areas; Conflicting Authorities: Occupants and Collaborators; Conclusions; Bones of Contention: The Nazi Recycling Project in Germany and France During World War II; Mobilising Bones in Wartime: Bones as a Chemical and Martial Resource; Schools as Waste Collection Centres: How the Nazis Collected Waste and Bones; Mobilising French Bones
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'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)France After the Defeat: A Fertile Ground for the Black Market; Evolution of the Black Market During the German Occupation from 1941 to 1944; Repression of the Black Market and Its Evolution; Economic and Social Consequences of the Black Market in France During the German Occupation
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Springer Nature
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com.springer.onix.9783319774671
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Coping with hunger and shortage under German occupation in World War II.