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The virtuous Wehrmacht crafting the myth of the German soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 by David A. Harrisville

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)Publication details: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2021.Description: 1 online resource illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1501760068
  • 9781501760051
  • 150176005X
  • 9781501760068
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D744.5.3
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Contents:
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
Summary: "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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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

"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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