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The aim of this chapter, which is part of a larger project on German stereotypes of Eastern European lands and peoples during the modern period, is to discuss key terms in the vocabulary of German administration and occupation in Eastern Europe in both world wars. Examined and compared here are the vocabularies of Ober Ost (the German occupation regime in the Baltic during World War I) and the Nazi Ostland.
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Liulevicius, V.G. (2009). The Languages of Occupation: Vocabularies of German Rule in Eastern Europe in the World Wars. In: Nelson, R.L. (eds) Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East. Studies in European Culture and History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230618541_6
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