War of extermination : the German military in World War II, 1941-1944
Print Book, English, ©2000
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Berghahn, New York, ©2000
War and genocide, v. 3
History
xix, 457 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
9781571812322, 1571812326
1057993722
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
Originally published in 2000
Translated from the German