{"id":223,"date":"2015-01-27T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umnchgs.wordpress.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2015-01-27T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:26:16","slug":"book-of-the-month-the-dark-heart-of-hitlers-europe-nazi-rule-in-poland-under-the-general-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/book-of-the-month-the-dark-heart-of-hitlers-europe-nazi-rule-in-poland-under-the-general-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Month: The Dark Heart of Hitler&#8217;s Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland Under the General Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtauris.com\/Books\/Society%20%20social%20sciences\/Politics%20%20government\/Political%20ideologies\/Fascism%20%20Nazism\/The%20Dark%20Heart%20of%20Hitlers%20Europe%20Nazi%20Rule%20in%20Poland%20Under%20the%20General%20Government.aspx?menuitem=%7B817548B7-25EF-41FB-BE59-FC1C66CA2D57%7D\">The Dark Heart of Hitler&#8217;s Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland Under the General Government<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Martin Winstone<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-224 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/94e47c28-29dd-48e7-a860-a1bce7882457.jpg\" alt=\"94e47c28-29dd-48e7-a860-a1bce7882457\" width=\"147\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/94e47c28-29dd-48e7-a860-a1bce7882457.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/94e47c28-29dd-48e7-a860-a1bce7882457-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/>Even amidst the horrors of Nazi rule in Europe, the tragic history of the General Government &#8211; the Nazi colony created out of the historic core of Poland, including Warsaw and Krakow, following the German and Soviet invasion of 1939 &#8211; stands out. Separate from but ruled by Germany through a brutal and corrupt regime headed by the vain and callous Hans Frank, this was indeed the dark heart of Hitler&#8217;s empire. As the principal &#8216;racial laboratory&#8217; of the Third Reich, the General Government was the site of Aktion Reinhard, the largest killing operation of the Holocaust, and of a campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing against Poles which was intended to be a template for the rest of eastern Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dark Heart of Hitler&#8217;s Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland Under the General Government by Martin Winstone Even amidst the horrors of Nazi rule in Europe, the tragic history of the General Government &#8211; the Nazi colony created out of the historic core of Poland, including Warsaw and Krakow, following the German and Soviet invasion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96689],"tags":[72232,777,3730],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-filmbook","tag-martin-winstone","tag-poland","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}