| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Cover; THE WAFFEN-SS A EUROPEAN HISTORY; COPYRIGHT; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; Chapter 1: Non-Germans in the Waffen-SS: An introduction; THE CONTEXT: TRANSNATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS; PREHISTORY: FROM WORLD WAR I TO WORLD WAR II; CROSSING THE RUBICON: THE WAFFEN-SS AT WAR, 1939-45; AFTERMATH: THE POST-WAR PERIOD; Chapter 2: Racial theory and realities of conquest in the occupied east: The Nazi leadership and non-German nationals in the SS and police; NOTIONS OF RACE: HITLER, HIMMLER AND THE PRIMACY OF BLOOD AND LAND |
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POLAND: BETWEEN ABSOLUTE SECURITY AND RETRIEVING GERMAN BLOODOPERATION 'BARBAROSSA': RADICALIZATION TOWARDS GENOCIDE AND EROSION OF 'RACIAL PURITY' IN THE SS; LUBLIN AND THE TRAWNIKI MEN; RECRUITMENT OF SLAVS: THE ULTIMATE COMPROMISE; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 3: Germanic volunteers from northern Europe; SS RACIAL IDEOLOGY AND THE VISION OF A PAN-GERMANIC COMMUNITY; Long-term Germanic ambitions of the SS; WHO JOINED THE WAFFEN-SS AND WHY?; Early recruitment; Pledging allegiance to Hitler; 'Wiking' Division; THE NATIONAL LEGIONS; Local Nazi parties and internal conflicts in the legions |
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Germanics from other countriesThe 3rd (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps; GERMANIC VOLUNTEERS AT THE FRONT; WAR CRIMES AND ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY GERMANIC VOLUNTEERS; THE GERMANIC OFFICER CORPS; LOCAL NATIONAL SS UNITS AND TRAINING SCHOOLS; NATIONAL DISPUTES-LOCAL CULTUREAND CONFLICTS; GERMANIC ILLUSIONS; Chapter 4: Western and southern Europe: The cases of Spain, France, Italy, and Greece; INTRODUCTION (CHRISTOPHER HALE); FRANCE (PHILIPPE CARRARD); From the LVF to the 'Charlemagne': French volunteers on the eastern front; The nature of collaboration; Motivations; ITALY (CARLO GENTILE) |
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Italians in the Waffen-SSThe Italian SS: emergence, organization and deployment; Personnel and motivation; SPAIN (XOSÉ M. NÚÑEZ SEIXAS); Spanish volunteers for the German army and the Waffen-SS, 1944-5; Spanish Nazism?; Nazis, radical Falangists-or simply survivors?; GREECE (GEORGIOS ANTONIOU AND STRATOS DORDANAS); Vae victis: the last months of occupation (1944); The formation of Security Battalions in the north and south (1943); Motivations and scope of armed collaboration: a mass movement or a marginal phenomenon?; CONCLUSIONS |
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Chapter 5: The Baltic States: Auxiliaries and Waffen-SS soldiers from Estonia, Latvia, and LithuaniaINTRODUCTION; MILITARY COLLABORATION: CRUSADE AGAINST BOLSHEVISM AND NATIONALIST AGENDAS; THE RECRUITMENT OF MILITARIZED UNITS OF THE POLICE AND WAFFEN-SS FROM LATVIA (MATTHEW KOTT); Case 1: Baltic Germans; Case 2: Latvians; Case 3: ethnic Russians; Case 4: Belarusians; The motivations of the volunteers from Latvia; ESTONIAN VOLUNTEERS IN THE WAFFEN-SS (ÜLLE KRAFT); Guerrilla groups and the Home Guard; Security detachments and defence battalions; Estonian Legion |
| Summary |
From 1941, faced with a shortage of men, the Waffen-SS admitted or recruited by force hundreds of thousands of non-Germans to their ranks. This volume, from a team of international contributors, shows who these foreign recruits were, where they came from, what their wartime experiences were, and what happened to them after 1945 |
| Notes |
This edition previously issued in print: 2016 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2016) |
| Subject |
Waffen-SS -- History
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Waffen-SS -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc
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Waffen-SS |
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Draft -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Foreign enlistment -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Recruiting and enlistment
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Draft
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Foreign enlistment
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Böhler, Jochen, 1969- editor.
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Gerwarth, Robert, editor
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| LC no. |
2016938168 |
| ISBN |
9780191831850 |
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0191831859 |
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