When the Nazis invaded foreign countries, they did not intend to establish a just government. On the contrary. They plundered historical treasures, industry, and natural resources of the defeated nations with the aim of enforcing German supremacy and establishing Hitler's new order in Europe. Historian Paul Roland, in his book Life Under Nazi Occupation, recounts the everyday life under German rule – in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Guernsey, and the islands in the English Channel – which the Germans enforced through bribery and brutality, rape and torture, incitement and intimidation. We learn about the dissenters and the collaborators who conspired with their captors, about the "enemies of the Reich," including Jewish citizens who were arrested and exterminated, but we also hear stories of incredible courage from people who stood up to the German Führer. This gripping book, accompanied by often chilling photographs of enslaved people and occupied places, brings us into the reality of Nazi domination – a regime that would have engulfed all of Europe had Germany won the war.
