Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents -- Editorial Preface -- Francis Ipgrave -- Documents by Date -- Documents by Country lix -- Contributors lxi -- Volume 1 -- World War II: Europe under German Occupation. Struggling with Supply and Shortage -- Tatjana Tönsmeyer, in cooperation with Dirk Luyten, Karl Christian Lammers and Irina Sherbakova -- Documents (1-300) -- Volume 2 -- Documents (301-600) -- Archives -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects.

During the peak of the German expansion in World War II, more than 230 million people from Norway to Greece and from France to various regions inside the former Soviet Union lived under German occupation. This edited collection of primary sources for the first time gives an insight into the experiences of these ordinary people under German occupation, their everyday life and how this quickly became dominated by shortages (especially of food but also of other necessities such as medicine), the search for supplies and different strategies to fight scarcity. In addressing examples from all European countries under German occupation the collected sources give the first pan-European perspective on the history of shortage, malnutrition and hunger resulting from the war, occupation, and aggressive German exploitation policies.

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