Model 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 ...
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Model 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 Greiser's 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?
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As New in As New jacket. Book Club Ed. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The story of Arthur Greiser, the Nazi who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi Occupied Poland between 1939-1945. This book details his cruel policies, the segregation of the ethic minorities and the creation of the first and longest standing Ghetto. Clean As New.
Very worthwhile read of a lesser known Nazi figure, and what went on in some important parts of the Reich.
Greiser, notably born in the eastern borderlands of Germany, joined the party relatively late, then rose to be #2 in the Free City of Danzig (an autonomous city state during the interwar period), then in 1939 was tagged as Gauleiter to run the region around Posen (Poznan) that was incorporated into the Reich, known as Warthegau. He remained there through 1945, was captured in the west, and executed by Polish authorities in 1946.
There are many interesting aspects to Greiser, and his balliwick of Warthegau, and all the initiatives that were undertaken there 1939-45. The area was majority Polish, even more so after the Polish uprising in 1918 brought it into the restored Poland. Greiser was tasked to Germanize his Gau, which was a complex project of attracting Germans, resettling a motley assortment of ethnic Germans from other regions of the East, and deporting or killing the Poles, and the relatively small Jewish population. His Gau saw the first mass gassing of Jews in Chelmo, and legally mandated, and extremely strict legal discrimination against Poles akin to Jim Crow.
Greiser was a complex figure, while he was often seen to go overboard in devising and implementing extreme policies, he still would often display a certain pragmatism over ideological zeal, for instance slowing deportations of Poles to maintain an adequate workforce to supply food, or marginally improving the conditions of the Jewish ghetto in Lodz to aid in production. Still, in the end, he was an odious and striving Nazi (although only too happy to maintain his personal slush funds), who never took responsibility for his actions.
