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Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were particularly effective in spreading, through memoirs and speeches, the legend that millions of German soldiers had fought an honest and "clean" war and that mass murder, especially in the East, was entirely the work of Himmler's SS. This volume contains the most important contributions by distinguished historians who have thoroughly demolished this Wehrmacht myth. The picture that emerges from this collection is a depressing one and raises many questions about why "ordinary men" got involved as perpetrators and bystanders in an unprecedented program of extermination of "racially inferior" men, women, and children in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Those who have seen these terrible photos of mass executions and other atrocities, currently on show in an exhibition in Germany and soon to be in the United States, will find this volume most enlightening.

Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations Preface Volker R. Berghahn Introduction Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann Chapter 1. The Concept of the War of Annihilation: Clausewitz, Ludendorff, Hitler Jan Philipp Reemtsma PART I: CRIMES Chapter 2. “Coming Along to Shoot Some Jews?” The Destruction of the Jews in Serbia Walter Manoschek Chapter 3. Killing Fields: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941–42 Hannes Heer Chapter 4. Soviet Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Wehrmacht Christian Streit Chapter 5. The Logic of the War of Extermination: The Wehrmacht and the Anti-Partisan War Hannes Heer Chapter 6. Men of 20 July and the War in the Soviet Union Christian Gerlach Chapter 7. Military Violence and the National Socialist Consensus: The Wehrmacht in Greece, 1941–44 Mark Mazower Chapter 8. Civitella della Chiana on 29 June 1944: The Reconstruction of a German “Measure” Michael Geyer PART II: FORMATIONS Chapter 9. Local Headquarters Liepaja: Two Months of German Occupation in the Summer of 1941 Margers Vestermanis Chapter 10. On the Way to Stalingrad: The 6th Army in 1941–42 Bernd Boll and Hans Safrian Chapter 11. Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in Ukraine, October–December 1941 Truman Anderson Chapter 12. Korück 582 Theo J. Schulte Chapter 13. How Amorality Became Normality: Reflections on the Mentality of German Soldiers on the Eastern Front Hannes Heer Chapter 14. Emptying the Gaze: Framing Violence through the Viewfinder Bernd Hüppauf PART III: AFTERMATH Chapter 15. Forward Defense: The “Memorandum of the Generals” for the Nuremberg Court Manfred Messerschmidt Chapter 16. Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Wehrmacht and German Historiography Omer Bartov Chapter 17. The “Unblemished” Wehrmacht: The Social History of a Myth Klaus Naumann Notes on Contributors Appendix: Charts and Maps Index of Names Index of Locations

About the Author :
Hannes Heer is a historian and film director.

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"... provides new information and excellent analyses."  ·  Holocaust and Genocide Studies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781571812322
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 504
  • Series Title: 3 War and Genocide
  • Weight: 726 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1571812326
  • Publisher Date: 16 Nov 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The German Military in World War II
  • Width: 140 mm


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