Coping with Hunger and Shortage under German Occupation in World War II

by Tatjana Tönsmeyer (editor)

Supply Nazi Policies of Exploitation and Economies of Shortage of Occupied Societies during World War II; Tatjana Tönsmeyer.- Part 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 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 1943 - 45; Alessandro Salvador and Jacopo Calussi.- Bones of The Nazi Recycling Project in Germany and France during the Second World War; Heike Weber and Chad Denton.- Part Coping Strategies and Creating Privileges.- Between employer and 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 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 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 Child-feeding Initiatives during the Dutch Hunger Winter; Ingrid de Zwarte.- Index

340 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2018