The Exploitation of Foreign Territories and the Discussion of Ostland’s Currency in 1941
Paolo Fonzi unina.academia.edu
The Exploitation of Foreign Territories and the Discussion of Ostland’s Currency in 1941
Adam Tooze’s The Wages of Destruction has received a fair amount of scholarly attention since its publication in 2006, particularly among historians. What has received much less attention, however, are the many theoretical insights to be gleaned from Tooze’s history of the inner-workings of the Nazi war economy in the lead-up to the Second World War. This is particularly true of the numerous theoretical subjects and themes covered by Tooze of direct relevance to Marxist theories and understandings of Nazism. From his analysis of the relationship between Nazi economic policies and Hitler’s geopolitical objectives to the relations between capital and state to the specificitie of Nazism as a distinct ideological and cultural apparatus to the role of the Nazi regime in triggering the 1939 cataclysm – in all these ways, Tooze’s work speaks to a number of core issues at the heart of Marxist debates on Nazism, fascism, and the causes of the Second World War. This introduction outlines a number of these themes and more in Tooze’s work, contextualising them within extant Marxist debates on Nazism, before then going on to highlight some of the main arguments and criticisms advanced in the symposium.

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 an analysis of Nazi Germany’s transnational relations with an evaluation of the discourse that accompanied these relations. Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Johannes Dafinger, Dieter Pohl Part I: Concepts of Europe 1 "Volksgruppen Rights" versus "Minorities Protections": The Evolution of German and Austrian Political Order Paradigms from the 1920s to 1945 Ulrich Prehn 2 Speaking Nazi-European: The Semantic and Conceptual Formation of the National Socialist "New Europe" Johannes Dafinger 3 From the Greater German Reich to the Greater Germanic Reich: Arthur Seyss-Inquart and the Racial Reshaping of Europe Johannes Koll 4 Nazi Plans for a New European Order and European Responses Tim Kirk 5 Hispanidad in the völkisch "New Order" of Europe (1933–1945) Marició Janué i Miret 6 Portugal, Salazar and the Nazi "New Order" in Europe Cláudia Ninhos Part II: Science, Academia, and Culture 7 Controlling Agriculture in Greece (1935–1944): Land Exploitation, Peasant Mobilization, and Big Science Maria Zarifi 8 "Population Pressure" and Development Models for Southeastern Europe: Interactions between German and Southeastern European Economists, 1930–1945 Ian Innerhofer 9 Educating the "Intellectual Army" of the "New Europe"? Foreign Students and Academic Exchange in Nazi Germany Holger Impekoven 10 Film Axis and Film Europe: German-Japanese and German-Italian Cooperation in the Film Industry from 1933 to 1945 Silvia Hofheinz 11 Building a New Europe on the Back of ‘German’ Science: Völkisch Ideologies and Imperialistic Visions at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna Felicitas Seebacher Part III: Economy 12 Völkisch Ideology within the Central European Economic Conference (Mitteleuropäischer Wirtschaftstag) Markus Wien 13 When Ends Become Means: Post-War Planning and the Exigencies of War in the Discussion about a New Economic Order in Europe (1939–1945) Raimund Bauer Part IV: Raumordnung and Racism 14 "The Anti-Semite Internationale": The Exporting of Anti-Jewish Scholarship and Propaganda by the Third Reich Dirk Rupnow 15 Heralds of a New Order: Mussolini, Hitler and the Purging of Europe Patrick Bernhard Index