Heimat, Region, and Empire: Spatial Identities under National Socialism

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Regions and National Socialist Ideology: Reflections on Contained Plurality....Pages 25-42
Milieus, Political Culture and Regional Traditions in Lower Saxony in Comparative Perspective....Pages 43-55
‘Grenzlandschicksal’: Historical Narratives of Regional Identity and National Duty in ‘Gau Oberrhein’, 1940–1944....Pages 56-71
National Socialism and Hierarchical Regionalism: The German Minorities in Interwar Poland....Pages 72-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-92
Germanization in the Warthegau: Germans, Jews and Poles and the Making of a ‘German’ Gau....Pages 93-111
‘A Sense of Heimat Opened Up during the War.’ German Soldiers and Heimat Abroad....Pages 112-147
‘Here Too Lies Our Lebensraum’: Colonial Space as German Space....Pages 148-165
Conceptions, Competences and Limits of German Regional Planning during the Four Year Plan, 1936–1940....Pages 166-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-184
Race, Regional Identity and Volksgemeinschaft: Naturalization of Ethnic German Resettlers in the Second World War by the Einwandererzentralstelle/Central Immigration Office of the SS....Pages 185-198
Reich Propaganda Offices and Political Mentoring of Ethnic German Resettlers....Pages 199-212
Suitable Germans — Enforced Assimilation Policies in Danzig-West Prussia, 1939–1945....Pages 213-234
On the Margins of Volksgemeinschaft: Criteria for Belonging to the Volk within the Nazi Germanization Policy in the Annexed Territories, 1939–1945....Pages 235-251
Commentary....Pages 252-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-280