Essays provide current interpretations of Germany's military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941.

Alex J. Kay, Jeff Rutherford, David Stahel

Introduction
Radicalizing Warfare: The German Command and the Failure of Operation Barbarossa
Urban Warfare Doctrine on the Eastern Front
The Wehrmacht in the War of Ideologies: The Army and Hitler's Criminal Orders on the Eastern Front
"The Purpose of the Russian Campaign Is the Decimation of the Slavic Population by Thirty Million": The Radicalization of German Food Policy in Early 1941
The Radicalization of German Occupation Policies: The Wirtschaftsstab Ost and the 121st Infantry Division in Pavlovsk, 1941
The Exploitation of Foreign Territories and the Discussion of Ostland's Currency in 1941
Axis Collaboration, Operation Barbarossa, and the Holocaust in Ukraine
The Radicalization of Anti-Jewish Policies in Nazi-Occupied Belarus
The Minsk Experience: German Occupiers and Everyday Life in the Capital of Belarus
Extending the Genocidal Program: Did Otto Ohlendorf Initiate the Systematic Extermination of Soviet "Gypsies"?
The Development of German Policy in Occupied France, 1941, against the Backdrop of the War in the East
Conclusion: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization
Appendix: Comparative Table of Ranks for 1941
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index