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Title The Waffen-SS : a European history / Jochen Böhler and Robert Gerwarth
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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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
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
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)
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
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
Waffen-SS -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc
Waffen-SS
Draft -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Foreign enlistment -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Recruiting and enlistment
Draft
Foreign enlistment
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Böhler, Jochen, 1969- editor.
Gerwarth, Robert, editor
LC no. 2016938168
ISBN 9780191831850
0191831859