Much of the failure and radicalization of the Nazi occupation of Poland can be traced to a series of systemic human factors whose roots like in the world of colonial occupation. I will outline these factors in brief, and then spend the rest of this paper elaborating on this collective “human resources disaster.”
“Because We Can.” [...]

The previous arguments can be rounded out and compared to Mann’s study by the addition of a few numbers. The first area is region, for me the most fascinating. Mann had found in his sample that southern Germans and Austrians – as well as Catholics overall – were strongly over-represented, whereas the northern and central [...]

In cultural history, as the saying goes, one example is an anecdote, two are a trend, and three are proof. There is a certain repetition in the stories that makes it unproductive to tell even more. This was not a handpicked selection of the juiciest, rather a representative cross-section. Three main trends are apparent from [...]