{"product_id":"model-nazi-arthur-greiser-and-the-occupation-of-western-poland-oxford-studies-in-modern-european-history-9780199546411","title":"Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland (Oxford Studies in Modern European History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eModel Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser  the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945  Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau  an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the Warthegau \"German \" Greiser introduced numerous cruel policies. He spearheaded an influx of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans. He segregated Germans from Poles  and introduced wide-ranging discriminatory measures against the Polish population. He refashioned the urban and natural landscape to make it \"German.\" And even more chillingly  the first and longest standing ghetto  the largest forced labour program  and the first mass gassings of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were all initiated under Greisers jurisdiction.  Who was the man behind these dreadful policies? Catherine Epstein gives us a compelling biographical portrait of Greiser the man: his birth in the German-Polish borderlands  his rise to Nazi prominence in Danzig  his actions as party leader in the Warthegau  and his trial and execution in postwar Poland. Drawing on a remarkable array of German and Polish sources  she shows how nationalist obsessions  political jealousies  and personal insecurities shaped the policies of a man who held remarkable power in his Nazi fiefdom. Throughout  Epstein confronts a burning question of our age: why do individuals imagine genocide and ethnic cleansing to be solutions to political problems?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789400006709,"sku":"ByrdShop_019954641X","price":39.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199546411.jpg?v=1790967361","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/model-nazi-arthur-greiser-and-the-occupation-of-western-poland-oxford-studies-in-modern-european-history-9780199546411","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}