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Studies of Nazi occupation in eastern Europe have identified both a colonialist and a gendered dimension to the German project to subjugate and exploit the occupied territories of the ‘East’. Making ‘German homes’, a task assigned above all to German women, indicated the will to stay and settle the conquered lands. This lecture will explore this drive to seize the homes and property of occupied populations in order to create domestic spaces and homely environments for the conquerors, and the consequences for those subjected to expulsion and displacement. Drawing on private letters and diaries from the time, the lecture will go on to consider examples of how German women involved in the ‘colonizing project’ in Nazi-occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet territories – whether as housewives, nurses, teachers or Nazi functionaries – registered or reflected at the time on the crimes committed against the non-Jewish and Jewish populations and how they reacted to the defeat and collapse of the Nazi ‘New Order’ in eastern Europe.

Lecture series in cooperation with the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk