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Uniform Title Vernichtungskrieg. English
Title War of extermination : the German military in World War II, 1941-1944 / edited by Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann
Edition English-language edition
Published New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2000]
©2000

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Description xix, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Series Studies on war and genocide ; v. 3
War and genocide ; v. 3
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of Abbreviations viii -- Preface -- Volker R. Berghahn xii -- Introduction -- Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann 1 -- Chapter 1 -- The Concept of the War of Annihilation: 13 -- Clausewitz, Ludendorff, Hitler -- Jan Philipp Reemtsma -- -- -- -- PART I - Crimes -- -- Chapter 2 -- "Coming Along to Shoot Some Jews?" 39 -- The Destruction of the Jews in Serbia -- Walter Manoschek -- Chapter 3 -- Killing Fields: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in 55 -- Belorussia, 1941-42 -- Hannes Heer -- Chapter 4 -- Soviet Prisoners of War in the Hands of the 80 -- Wehrmacht -- Christian Streit -- -- -- -- Chapter 5 -- The Logic of the War of Extermination: 92 -- The Wehrmacht and the Anti-Partisan War -- Hannes Heer -- Chapter 6 -- Men of 20 July and the War in the Soviet Union 127 -- Christian Gerlach -- Chapter 7 -- Military Violence and the National Socialist Consensus: 146 -- The Wehrmacht in Greece, 1941-44 -- Mark Mazower -- -- Chapter 8 -- Civitella della Chiana on 29 June 1944: 175 -- The Reconstruction of a German "Measure" -- Michael Geyer -- -- -- -- PART II - Formations -- -- Chapter 9 -- Local Headquarters Liepaja: Two Months of German 219 -- Occupation in the Summer of 1941 -- Margers Vestermanis -- Chapter 10 -- On the Way to Stalingrad: The 6th Army in 1941-42 237 -- Bernd Boll and Hans Safrian -- Chapter 11 -- Incident at Baranivka: German Reprisals and the 272 -- Soviet Partisan Movement in Ukraine, -- October-December 1941 -- Truman Anderson -- Chapter 12 -- Koruck 582 314 -- Theo J. Schulte -- Chapter 13 -- How Amorality Became Normality: Reflections on the 329 -- Mentality of German Soldiers on the Eastern Front -- Hannes Heer -- -- -- -- Chapter 14 -- Emptying the Gaze: Framing Violence through 345 -- the Viewfinder -- Bernd Hiippauf -- -- -- -- PART III - Aftermath -- -- Chapter 15 -- Forward Defense: The "Memorandum of the 381 -- Generals" for the Nuremberg Court -- Manfred Messerschmidt -- Chapter 16 -- Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Wehrmacht 400 -- and German Historiography -- Omer Bartov -- Chapter 17 -- The "Unblemished" Wehrmacht: The Social 417 -- History of a Myth -- Klaus Naumann -- -- Notes on Contributors 430 -- Appendix: Charts and Maps 433 -- Index of Names 444 -- Index of Locations 454
Notes First published in 2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the German
Subject Germany. Heer -- History.
Germany -- Armed Forces -- History.
Germany. Heer -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Genocide -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
SUBJECT Germany -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054470 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Germany -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115143
Author Naumann, Klaus, 1949-
Heer, Hannes.
LC no. 99043734
ISBN 1571812326