Harrisville, David A., <br/><br/>
The virtuous Wehrmacht  crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 
by David A. Harrisville 
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 - Battlegrounds: Cornell studies in military history .
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<br/><br/>Introduction: toward a moral history of the Wehrmacht in the war of extermination --  Honorable self and villainous other: value systems in the Wehrmacht --  Rationalizing atrocities: self-exoneration in soldiers' letters --  The "crusaders": religious justifications for Barbarossa --  The "liberators": Barbarossa as an emancipatory act --  Death and victimhood: cultivating moral superiority through burial practices --  Conclusion: a myth is born 
<br/><br/> "This book examines how German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during the Second World War rationalized their participation in a criminal campaign, and how the Wehrmacht attempted to assert moral superiority over its Soviet enemies. In the process, it redefines the origins of the myth of the "clean" Wehrmacht"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501760051 9781501760068 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021008206 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects--Germany.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Moral and ethical aspects--Germany.<br/>Justification (Ethics)<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D744  / .V578 2021