German Blood, Slavic Soil : : How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad / / Nicole Eaton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Eaton, Nicole,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones, 4 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Archival Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. The Bridge and the Bulwark --; 2. Empire in the East --; 3. Downfall --; 4. Liberation and Revenge --; 5. City of Death --; 6. Living Together --; 7. Slavic Soil --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501767388; 9783110751833; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319131; 9783111318189
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501767388
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nicole Eaton.

German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes.Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what both Germans and Soviets thought about each other, but also how the war brought them together. She details an intricate timeline, first describing how Königsberg, a 700-year-old German port city on the Baltic Sea and lifelong home of Immanuel Kant, became infamous in the 1930s as the easternmost bastion of Hitler's Third Reich and launching point for the Nazis' genocidal war in the East. She then describes how, after being destroyed by bombing and siege in 1945, Königsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city of Stalin's Soviet Union. Königsberg/Kaliningrad is the only city to have been ruled by both Hitler and Stalin as their own—in both wartime occupation and as integral territory of the two regimes. German Blood, Slavic Soil presents an intimate look into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during the decade of the Second World War. Eaton impressively shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of the two regimes.