Coping with Hunger and Shortage under German Occupation in World War II

Introduction: Supply Situations: Nazi Policies of Exploitation and Economies of Shortage of Occupied Societies during World War II; Tatjana Tönsmeyer.- Part I: Economies of Scarcity and "Ersatz" Site.- Black market in the General Government 1939-1945: Survival strategy or (un)official economy?; Jerzy Kochanowski.- Economies of Scarcity in Belarusian Villages During the Second World War. How New Findings from Oral History Projects put a Perpetrator Centered Historiography in Perspective; Tatsiana Kasataya and Aliaksandr Smalianchuk.- Supplies under pressure. Survival in a fully rationed society: Experiences, cases and innovation in rural and urban regions in occupied Norway; Guri Hjeltnes.- "The Black market is a crime against community": the failure of the Vichy Government to create an egalitarian distribution and the growth of the black market in France during the German Occupation (1940-1944); Fabrice Grenard.- The black market in occupied Italy and the approach of Italian and German authorities: 1943 - 45; Alessandro Salvador and Jacopo Calussi.- Bones of Contention: The Nazi Recycling Project in Germany and France during the Second World War; Heike Weber and Chad Denton.- Part II: Coping Strategies and Creating Privileges.- Between employer and self-organisation: Belgian workers and miners coping with food shortages under German occupation (1940-44); Dirk Luyten.- "Dem tschechischen Arbeiter das Fressen geben". Factory canteens in the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia"; Jaromír Balcar.- "With the hope of a piece of sausage or a mug of beer" - Writing a History of Survival Sex in Occupied Europe; Maren Röger.- Part III: Vulnerabilities: At the Bottom of the Supply Pyramid.- Famine in Occupied Greece. On the Particular Role of the Elderly and the Infirm in a Starving Society; Violetta Hionidou.- Food, Money and Barter in the Lvov Ghetto, Eastern Galicia; Natalia Aleksiun.- The North Caucasus and German Exploitation Policies in World War II: Everyday Life Experience of Children during the Occupation; Irina Rebrova and Elena Strekalova.- '...have not received any deliveries of potatoes for quite some time...'. Food supply and acquisition in the ghettos of Vilnius and Kaunas; Joachim Tauber.- Fighting Vulnerability: Child-feeding Initiatives during the Dutch Hunger Winter; Ingrid de Zwarte.- Index