The editors of the Journal of Genocide Research are pleased to present a special issue on Populating the Greater Germanic Empire: Volksgemeinschaft and Lebensraum guested edited by Daniel Siemens & Gerhard Wolf. It is followed by a debate among three prominent Turkish historians about the World War One diary of Captain Torossian, an Armenian officer in the Ottoman army.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Special Issue: Populating the Greater Germanic Empire: Volksgemeinschaft and Lebensraum
IntroductionPopulating the Greater Germanic EmpireDaniel Siemens & Gerhard WolfPages: 165–169
ARTICLES
Organizing the ‘people’s community’: the NSDAP and the ‘ethnic Germans’ in Nazi-occupied territoriesArmin NolzenPages: 170–190
‘Sword and plough’: settling Nazi stormtroopers in Eastern Europe, 1936–43Daniel SiemensPages: 191–213
Negotiating Germanness: National Socialist Germanization policy in the WarthelandGerhard WolfPages: 214–239
‘Germanje’: Dutch empire-building in Nazi-occupied EuropeGeraldien von Frijtag Drabbe KünzelPages: 240–257
DEBATE
A shameful debate? A critical reassessment of the ‘Torossian debate’Edhem EldemPages: 258–273
Everything makes sense once given contextTaner AkçamPages: 274–278
A rejoinder: the debate on Captain Torossian revisitedAyhan AktarPages: 279–291
A reply to the responses by Taner Akçam and Ayhan AktarEdhem EldemPages: 292–297