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Title: House Built on Sand: The Conflicts of Germany Policy in Russia, 1939-1945 by Gerald Reitlinger ISBN: 0-8371-8291-3 Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1975 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $25.00

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Summary: House Bulit On Sand
Comment: This is the classic work on the German occupation of Russia together Alexander Dallin's fine work. Reitlinger has composed a comprehensive study of the chaotic and in the end ineffective Nazi rule of Russia during World War II.

Reitlinger exposes the labyrinth that made it nearly impossible for the Germans to control the areas they occupied, areas they could have ruled with more control had they been in tune with the local population, a significant amount which welcomed them as liberators. He also examines how Russia was exploited by the Germans, for slave labor, for foodstuffs, even for manpower for the Wehrmacht. The sections on the Vlasov Army and other collaborationist movements is especially enlightening, subjects that even now forty years after this book was written have not been examined thoroughly.

The only drawback to this text is time and the authors now dated use of English jargon. Reitlinger probably did not have access to documents or evidence that later writers had the privelege of using...or in some cases not using, they are some errors, but mainly due to when the author wrote this book and not due to the author himself. This is a fine work and well worth reading and studying, it is a good base to begin study of this subject.