Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest

by Edward B. Westermann

Book Overview

As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States's westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were, he said, his "redskins," and for his colonial fantasy of a "German East" he claimed a historical precedent in the United States's displacement and killing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806164670
• ISBN13: 9780806164670
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"