{"product_id":"war-of-extermination-the-german-military-in-world-war-ii-9781571814937","title":"War of Extermination: The German Military in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAmong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"... provides new information and excellent analyses.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Holocaust and Genocide Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePreface\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVolker R. Berghahn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHannes Heer and Klaus Naumann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Concept of the War of Annihilation: Clausewitz, Ludendorff, Hitler\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJan Philipp Reemtsma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: CRIMES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Coming Along to Shoot Some Jews?” The Destruction of the Jews in Serbia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWalter Manoschek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Killing Fields: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941–42\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHannes Heer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Soviet Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Wehrmacht\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristian Streit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Logic of the War of Extermination: The Wehrmacht and the Anti-Partisan War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHannes Heer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Men of 20 July and the War in the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristian Gerlach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Military Violence and the National Socialist Consensus: The Wehrmacht in Greece, 1941–44\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMark Mazower\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Civitella della Chiana on 29 June 1944: The Reconstruction of a German “Measure”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Geyer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: FORMATIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Local Headquarters Liepaja: Two Months of German Occupation in the Summer of 1941\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMargers Vestermanis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eOn the Way to Stalingrad: The 6th Army in 1941–42\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBernd Boll and Hans Safrian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the Soviet Partisan Movement in Ukraine, October–December 1941\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTruman Anderson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Korück 582\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTheo J. Schulte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e How Amorality Became Normality: Reflections on the Mentality of German Soldiers on the Eastern Front\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHannes Heer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Emptying the Gaze: Framing Violence through the Viewfinder\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBernd Hüppauf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: AFTERMATH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e Forward Defense: The “Memorandum of the Generals” for the Nuremberg Court\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eManfred Messerschmidt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e Whose History Is It, Anyway? 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