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Hitler's soldiers : the German army in the Third Reich

Title: Hitler's soldiers : the German army in the Third Reich / Ben H. Shepherd.
Author: Shepherd, Ben (Ben H.)
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]

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Description

xxiii, 639 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and military occupation. This was a true people's army, drawn from across German society and reflecting that society as it existed under the Nazis. Without the army and its conquests abroad, Shepherd explains, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews, prisoners of war, and civilians in occupied countries. The author examines how the army was complicit in these crimes and why some soldiers, units, and higher commands were more complicit than others. Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the army's early battlefield successes and its mounting defeats up to 1945, the latter due not only to Allied superiority and Hitler's mismanagement as commander-in-chief, but also to the failings--moral, political, economic, strategic, and operational--of the army's own leadership"--

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Military Ascent, Moral Decline. The Army in the New Reich, 1933-36 -- Road to War, 1936-39 -- Part II: Triumph and Hubris. Poland, 1939-40 -- "Sitzkrieg," 1939-40 -- The Greatest Victory, 1940 -- Occupying the West, 1940-41 -- Planning Operation Barbarossa, 1940-41 -- Barbarossa Unleashed, 1941 -- Part III: Losing the Initiative. Barbarossa Undone, 1941 -- Resistance and Reaction, 1941 : Western Europe and Southeast Europe -- Winter Crisis, 1941-42 -- The Desert War, 1941-42 -- Southern Russia and Stalingrad, 1942-43 -- Faces of Occupation, 1942-43 : The Soviet Union -- Faces of Occupation, 1942-43 : Western Europe and Southeast Europe -- The Initiative Lost, 1943 -- Part IV: Beleagured. Takeover in Southern Europe, 1943-44 -- The Eastern Front, 1943-44 : The Ostheer Retreats -- The Eastern Front, 1943-44 : The Frontsoldat Endures -- Italy, 1943-44 -- Fortress Europe Breached, 1943-44 -- Part V: Defeat, Destruction and Self-Destruction. The Greatest Defeat, 1944 -- The Army "Recovers," 1944-45 -- The Army Self-Destructs, 1945.

Call Number

JFE 16-9056

ISBN

9780300179033
0300179030

LCCN

2016003731

OCLC

930798088

Author

Shepherd, Ben (Ben H.), author.

Title

Hitler's soldiers : the German army in the Third Reich / Ben H. Shepherd.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 16-9056

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