Routledge Studies in Second World War History
About the Book Series
The Second World War remains today the most seismic political event of the past hundred years, an unimaginable unpheaval that impacted upon every country on earth and is fully ingrained in the consciousness of the world's citizens. Traditional narratives of the conflict are entrenched to such a degree that new research takes on an ever important role in helping us make sense of World War II. Aiming to bring to light the results of new archival research and exploring notions of memory, propaganda, genocide, empire and culture, Routledge Studies in Second World War History sheds new light on the causes, events and legacy of global war.
The Construction of a National Socialist Europe during the Second World War: How the New Order Took Shape
1st Edition
By Raimund Bauer
June 30, 2021
Throughout the Second World War, the term ‘Europe’ featured prominently in National Socialist rhetoric. This book reconstructs what Europe stood for in National Socialist Germany, analyses how the interplay of its defining elements changed dependent on the war, and shows that the new European order...
Intellectual Collaboration with the Third Reich: Treason or Reason?
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Björkman, Patrik Lundell, Sven Widmalm
March 31, 2021
The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among "pro-German" intellectuals, using a comparative approach. These moves were shaped by the Nazi system, which viewed ...
British Exploitation of German Science and Technology, 1943-1949
1st Edition
By Charlie Hall
September 30, 2020
At the end of the Second World War, Germany lay at the mercy of its occupiers, all of whom launched programmes of scientific and technological exploitation. Each occupying nation sought to bolster their own armouries and industries with the spoils of war, and Britain was no exception. Shrouded in ...
German-occupied Europe in the Second World War
1st Edition
Edited
By Raffael Scheck, Fabien Théofilakis, Julia Torrie
September 30, 2020
Inspired by recent works on Nazi empire, this book provides a framework to guide occupation research with a broad comparative angle focusing on human interactions. Overcoming national compartmentalization, it examines Nazi occupations with attention to relations between occupiers and local ...
Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Murray
September 30, 2020
Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts is a collection of chapters dealing with various overlooked aspects of the Second World War. The aim is to give greater depth and context to the war by introducing new stories about regions of the world and elements of the war rarely ...
Advancing Holocaust Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Rittner, John K. Roth
July 23, 2020
The growing field of Holocaust studies confronts a world wracked by antisemitism, immigration and refugee crises, human rights abuses, mass atrocity crimes, threats of nuclear war, the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, and environmental degradation. What does it mean to advance ...
A New Nationalist Europe Under Hitler: Concepts of Europe and Transnational Networks in the National Socialist Sphere of Influence, 1933–1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Johannes Dafinger, Dieter Pohl
June 30, 2020
Nazis, fascists and völkisch conservatives in different European countries not only cooperated internationally in the fields of culture, science, economy, and persecution of Jews, but also developed ideas for a racist and ethno-nationalist Europe under Hitler. The present volume attempts to combine...
The Swedish Jews and the Holocaust
1st Edition
By Pontus Rudberg
May 07, 2019
"We will be judged in our own time and in the future by measuring the aid that we, inhabitants of a free and fortunate country, gave to our brethren in this time of greatest disaster." This declaration, made shortly after the pogroms of November 1938 by the Jewish communities in Sweden, was truer ...